A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

2. Or, from Pride and Conceitedness of their own Wisdom and Reason: they magnify their own Notions, are in love with their own Wisdom, and so contemn all else, like the Athenians, Acts. 17.18.32. that laughed when they heard of Jesus and the Resurrection. The high Opinion they have of their Reason makes them deny the reality of Faith; what they cannot themselves comprehend, they will not believe, nor allow others to do it; they will scarce allow of any thing between Demonstration and Fancy, and this makes them Innovate so much in Religion, and Scoff at the Faith by which they should be Saved.

2. Or, from Pride and Conceitedness of their own Wisdom and Reason: they magnifie their own Notions, are in love with their own Wisdom, and so contemn all else, like the Athenians, Acts. 17.18.32. that laugh'd when they heard of Jesus and the Resurrection. The high Opinion they have of their Reason makes them deny the reality of Faith; what they cannot themselves comprehend, they will not believe, nor allow others to do it; they will scarce allow of any thing between Demonstration and Fancy, and this makes them Innovate so much in Religion, and Scoff at the Faith by which they should be Saved.

3. Or, from Ignorance of Spiritual things, and their not Experiencing the Power of Grace in their own Hearts: They will believe nothing in Religion but what they have themselves felt. They never found the Light of Divine Truths shining into their dark Minds, and overcoming their Carnal Reason, nor the Power of Grace renewing their Wills, and subjecting them to Gods Will, breaking the force of their sinful Inclinations, mortifying their Lusts, regulating their Affections, changing the habitual temper and disposition of their Spirits: nor the Efficacy of Faith in the Purification of their Hearts, their resting upon the Promises, cleaving to Christ, and fetching in supplies of the Spirit from him; nor the Love of God shed abroad in their Hearts, enlarging them in Duties, quickening them in his ways, supporting them under Burdens, strengthening them against Temptations, and comforting them under Afflictions, and therefore they Question all these things, and take them to be nothing else but canting Phrases and unaccountable Fancies. A man that never was at