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THE Case to be Resolved. pag. 1. DIRECTION I. Discover the true Cause of your Trouble. 4 The continued necessity of a standing Ministry. 6 DIRECTION II. Discover well how much of your trouble is from Melancholy, or from outward Crosses, and apply the Remedy accordingly. 7 DIRECTION III. Lay first in your understanding sound and deep apprehensions of Gods nature. 17 ⟨image 22⟩The Benefits that arise from the Apprehensions of Gods Goodness. 18 DIRECTION IV. Get deep Apprehensions of the Gracious Nature and Office of the Mediator. 28 DIRECTION. V. Believe and consider the full sufficiency of Christs Sacrifice and Ransom for all. 32 DIRECTION VI. Apprehend the Freeness, Fullness and Universality of the Law of Grace, or Conditional Grant of Pardon and Salvation to all men, if they will Repent and Believe. 33 DIRECTION VII. Understand the difference between General Grace and Special, and between the Possibility, Probability, Conditional Certainty, and Absolute Certainty of your Salvation, and so between the several Degrees of Comfort that these Severals may afford▪ 35 ⟨image 22⟩How much Comfort the unconverted may receive from General Grace. 39 DIRECTION VIII. Understand rightly the true nature of saving Faith. 49 DIRECTION IX. Next perform the Condition by Actual Believing. 55 Object. I am not able to Believe: Answered 56 Direction how to get Faith. 59 How far the prayers of the wicked are acceptable. 60 DIRECTION X. Next Review your own Believing, and thence gather Assurance. 66 The Witness of the Spirit, and Spirit of Adoption, what they are. 68, 71 Whether it be a Legal departing from Christ, or any sinful trusting in our own Righteousness, to gather Peace, Comfort or Assurance from signs within us? 74 Twenty Arguments proving it lawful to gather Comfort or Assurance from Gods Graces in us 75