Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

If you say this is done, I will not ask you when you did it first? that may seem too nice a question to some, but I will ask you when you did it last? I hope you do it every day, if you are at any stand in your thoughts about this, your wisest course is to act over this saving Faith more distinctly, more particularly, more frequently, for the Salvation of your own Soul; then your Faces will shine, and your Hearts will rejoice, we shall know you have been with Jesus.

If you say this is done, I will not ask you when you did it first? that may seem too nice a question to some, but I will ask you when you did it last? I hope you do it every day, if you are at any stand in your thoughts about this, your wisest course is to act over this saving Faith more distinctly, more particularly, more frequently, for the Salvation of your own Soul; then your Faces will shine, and your Hearts will rejoyce, we shall know you have been with Jesus.

'Tis impossible to experience the power and efficacy of saving Faith till we act it in our own case, for our own Souls; then it comes home indeed to our selves, then we feel the comfort of it; we may own the general Doctrine of Faith, and be little affected with it, or concerned about it; but when the Grace of Faith comes and makes a particular application of that Doctrine to thy Soul, and my Soul, then we believe for our selves, and are filled with joy unspeakable and full of Glory, that we should be received unto mercy, have all our sins pardoned, our persons accepted, and our Souls eternally saved; all this Faith makes out to us by name, from such undeniable grounds and reasons, that we cannot gainsay.

'Tis impossible to experience the power and efficacy of saving Faith till we act it in our own case, for our own Souls; then it comes home indeed to our selves, then we feel the comfort of it; we may own the general Doctrin of Faith, and be little affected with it, or concerned about it; but when the Grace of Faith comes and makes a particular application of that Doctrin to thy Soul, and my Soul, then we believe for our selves, and are filled with joy unspeakable and full of Glory, that we should be received unto mercy, have all our sins pardoned, our persons accepted, and our Souls eternally saved; all this Faith makes out to us by name, from such undeniable grounds and reasons, that we cannot gainsay.