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I Shall here open to you the several parts of this Proposition and Direction distinctly. 1. I told you in the beginning of ⟨p. 171⟩the four grounds of Probability which all may have in general, from 1. The Nature of God, 2. And of the Mediator; and his Office. 3. And the universal sufficiency of Christs satisfaction. 4. And the general tenor of the Promise and offer of Pardon and Salvation. Now I add; that besides all these, there are many grounds of strong Probability which you may have of your own Sincerity, and so of your particular Interest in Christ and Salvation, when you cannot reach to a Certainty.

I Shall here open to you the several parts of this Proposition and Direction distinctly. 1. I told you in the beginning of ⟨p. 171⟩the four grounds of Probability which all may have in general, from 1. The Nature of God, 2. And of the Mediatour; and his Office. 3. And the universal sufficiency of Christs satisfaction. 4. And the general tenour of the Promise and offer of Pardon and Salvation. Now I adde; that besides all these, there are many grounds of strong Probability which you may have of your own Sincerity, and so of your particular Interest in Christ and Salvation, when you cannot reach to a Certainty.

1. Some kind of Probability you may gather by comparing your self with others. Though this way be but delusory to unregenerate men, whose confidence is plainly contradicted by the Scriptures, yet may it be lawful and useful to an humble soul that is willing to obey and wait on God: I mean, to consider, that if such as you should perish, how few people would God have in the world? Consider first in how narrow a compass the Church was confined before Christs coming in the flesh? and how carnal and corrupt even that visible Church then was? and even at this day, the most Learned do compute, that if you divide the world into thirty parts, nineteen of them are Heathenish Idolaters, six of them are Mahometans, and only fie of