The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

4. What need I more to prove the Cause than the adequate effect? When I find that Christ doth actually save me, shall I question whether he be my Saviour? When I find that he saveth thousands about me, and offereth the same to others, shall I doubt whether he be the Saviour of the world? Sure he that healeth us all, and that so wonderfully and so cheaply, may well be called our Physician. If he had promised only to save us, I might have doubted whether he would perform it, and consequently whether he be indeed the Saviour. But when he performeth it on my self, and performeth it on thousands round about me, to doubt yet whether he be the Saviour, when he actually saveth us, is to be ignorant in despite of Reason and Experience. I conclude therefore that the Spirit of Sanctification is the infallible Witness of the Verity of the Gospel, and the Veracity of Jesus Christ.

5. And I entreat all that read this, further to observe, the great use and advantage of this testimony above others: in that it is continued from Generation to Generation, and not as the gift and testimony of Miracles, which continued plentifully but one Age, and with diminution somewhat after: this is Christ's witness to the end of the world, in every Country, and to every Soul: yea, and continually dwelling in them: For if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his, Rom. 8.9. He that is not able to examine the History which reporteth the Miracles to him, may be able to find upon his Soul the Image of God imprinted by the Gospel, and to know that the Gospel hath that Image in it self which it imprinteth upon others; and that it cometh from God, which leadeth men so directly unto God; and that it is certainly his own means which he blesseth to so great and excellent ends.