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And then do I need to say any more to ⟨p. 148⟩the Confirmation of the third Point, That few Christians reach this measure of Grace? O that it were not as clear as the light, and as discernible as the earth under our feet, that most true Christians are weaklings and of the lower forms in the School of Christ! Alas, how ignorant are most of the best? How little Love, or Faith, or Zeal, or heavenly-mindedness, or Delight in God, have they? How unacquainted with a frequent exercise of these Graces? How unacquainted with the way of self-examination? and how backward to it? and how dull and careless in it? doing it by the halves, as Laban searched Rachels Tent? How easily put off with an excuse? How little acquainted with their own hearts? or with Satan's temptations, and ways of deceiving? how much deceitfulness remaineth in their hearts? how confused are their minds? and what distractions and tumults are there in their thoughts? how bold are they in sinning? and how little tenderness of Conscience, and care of obeying have they? how frequently do they wound Conscience, provoke God, and obscure their Evidences? and how mutable are their Apprehensions? and how soon do they lose that Assurance which they once attain? and upon every occasion quite lose the sight of their evidences? yea and Remit their actual ⟨p. 149⟩Resolutions, and so lose much of the Evidence it self? Is not this the common case of Godly people? O that we could truly deny it: Let their lives be witness, let their visible neglects, worldliness, pride, impatience of plain Reproof, remissness of Zeal, dullness and customariness in Duty, strangeness to God, unwillingness to secret Prayer and Meditation, unacquaintedness with the Spirits operations and joys, their unpeaceableness one with another, and their too frequent blemishing the glory of their holy Profession by the unevenness of their walking, let all these witness, whether the School of Christ have not most children in it: and how few of them ever go to the University of riper knowledge? and how few of those are fit to begin here the works of their Priestly Office, which they must live in for ever? in the high and joyful Praises of God and of the Lamb, who hath Redeemed them by his Blood, and made them Kings and Priests to God, that they may Reign with him for ever?

And then do I need to say any more to ⟨p. 148⟩