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This that I described to you, is the true witness of the Spirit. This mistake is so dangerous, that I had thought to have made it a ⟨p. 70⟩peculiar Direction by it self to warn you of it: but now I have gone so far I will dispatch it here. Two dangerous consequents I find do follow this unwarrantable expectation of the first immediate efficient Revelation that we are Adopted.

This that I described to you, is the true witness of the Spirit. This mistake is so dangerous, that I had thought to have made it a ⟨p. 70⟩peculiar Direction by it self to warn you of it: but now I have gone so far I will dispatch it here. Two dangerous consequents I finde do follow this unwarrantable expectation of the first immediate efficient Revelation that we are Adopted.

1. Some poor souls have languished in doubtings and trouble of mind almost all their days, in expectation of such a kind of witness as the Spirit useth not to give: when in the mean time they have other sufficient means of Comfort, and knew not how to improve them; yea they had the true witness of the Spirit in his inhabitation and holy workings, and did not know it; but run as Samuel did to Eli, not knowing the voice of God: and look for the Spirits testimony when they had it, as the Jews for Elijah and the Messiah.

1. Some poor souls have languished in doubtings and trouble of minde almost all their daies, in expectation of such a kinde of witness as the Spirit useth not to give: when in the mean time they have other sufficient means of Comfort, and knew not how to improve them; yea they had the true witness of the Spirit in his inhabitation and holy workings, and did not know it; but run as Samuel did to Eli, not knowing the voice of God: and look for the Spirits testimony when they had it, as the Jews for Elias and the Messias.