Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

Blake will but tell us plainly, how he would deal with these that doubt of their very historical faith, and what he would have them do, then I will tell him the like by them that doubt of their saving faith. 5. Nay see what a desperate plunge he puts his believers to. He requireth them to perform impossibilities. They must engage to believe savingly; that is, they must profess a consent so to do. And this they must know that they do sincerely; or else they cannot do it in faith as the Objection saith:) when as it is a thing that no unregenerate man can do sincerely. If he engage to believe savingly, he doth it not sincerely, but ignorantly or dissemblingly. At least, few of them know that they do it sincerely (as themselves will here confess;) what then must these do in such a case?

6 At least, let the heart and light of a godly man and an ungodly be compared, and I will appeal to Mr. Blake's own judgement, whether a Godly man be not as likely to know his sincerity in saving faith, as an ungodly man to know that he ha•h truly a Dogmatical faith, and doth truly engage to believe savingly. I could soon show such disadvantages that a wicked ⟨p. 193⟩man hath to know his own heart, even in this point, that me thinks might easily determine this Controversy, if it were needful to stand upon it.

6 At least, let the heart and light of a godly man and an ungodly be compared, and I will appeal to Mr. Blakes own judgement, whether a Godly man be not as likely to know his sincerity in saving faith, as an ungodly man to know that he ha•h truly a Dogmatical faith, and doth truly engage to believe savingly. I could soon shew such disadvantages that a wicked ⟨p. 193⟩man hath to know his own heart, even in this point, that me thinks might easily determine this Controversie, if it were needfull to stand upon it.