The Morning exercise [at] Cri[ppleg]ate, or, Several cases of conscience practically resolved

II. Our Faith and Confidence of obtaining the thing we ask, should proceed pari passu should be as strong to the event as it is to the Conditions. If we are very confident what we ask is for the glory of God ⟨p. 346⟩or our good, we must be as Confident that we shall have it; for as we are to put no Condition to absolute Promises since God hath put none, so we are to add no more Conditions to Conditional Promises than God hath put, and upon those Conditions we are as fully to rely upon Gods performance, as upon his performance of absolute Promises.

III. Though we cannot nor ought not certainly to believe the obtaining the thing we ask, if it be Temporal by virtue of the Promise, yet by virtue of an immediate assurance God may give us of receiving the very thing we ask, we may and indeed cannot choose but expect it. We read of Gods dealings so with several of his Saints (with Mr. Fox and many others.)

III. Though we cannot nor ought not certainly to believe the obtaining the thing we ask, if it be Temporal by virtue of the Promise, yet by virtue of an immediate assurance God may give us of receiving the very thing we ask, we may and indeed cannot chuse but expect it. We read of Gods dealings so with several of his Saints (with Mr. Fox and many others.)

IV. As for Spiritual blessings they are of four sorts. 1. Of Edification as gifts, such as speaking with Tongues, and Prophesying in the Primitive Church, and the gifts of Preaching and Praying now, or