The right method for a settled peace of conscience, and spiritual comfort in 32…

14. If your Resolution at present be hearty, you ought not to vex and disquiet your mind with doubtful tormenting fears, what you should do, if you be put to it, to forsake all, and suffer death for Christ. For he hath promised to lay no more on us then we can bear, but with the temptation will make us a way to come forth, 1 Cor. 10, 13. either he will not bring us into trials beyond our strength; or else he will increase our strength according to our trials. He hath bid us pray, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: and he hath promised, that whatsoever we ask in the name of Christ according to his will he will give us. So that if once you can but truly say, that it is your full Resolution to forsake all for Christ if he call you to it, and that on the forementioned grounds, you ought not then to vex your soul with fears ⟨p. 109⟩of the issue: for that is but to distrust God your father and your strength. Only you must be careful to do your duty to the keeping up of your present Resolutions, and to wait obediently on God for the help of his Spirit, and to beg it earnestly at his hands.

14. If your Resolution at present be hearty, you ought not to vex and disquiet your minde with doubtfull tormenting fears, what you should do, if you be put to it, to forsake all, and suffer death for Christ. For he hath promised to lay no more on us then we can bear, but with the temptation will make us a way to come forth, 1 Cor. 10, 13. either he will not bring us into trials beyond our strength; or else he will increase our strength according to our trials. He hath bid us pray, Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil: and he hath promised, that whatsoever we ask in the name of Christ according to his will he will give us. So that if once you can but truly say, that it is your full Resolution to forsake all for Christ if he call you to it, and that on the forementioned grounds, you ought not then to vex your soul with fears ⟨p. 109⟩of the issue: for that is but to distrust God your father and your strength. Only you must be carefull to do your duty to the keeping up of your present Resolutions, and to wait obediently on God for the help of his Spirit, and to beg it earnestly at his hands.