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2. On the other side, if your Doubts arise from any Defect in your Apprehensions of General Grace; it is not your looking after Marks in your self that is the way to Resolve them. I told you in the beginning, that the General Grounds of Comfort lie in four particulars (that square Foundation which will bear up all the Faith of the Saints.) First, Gods merciful and unconceivably Good and ⟨p. 492⟩Gracious Nature, and his Love to mankind. Secondly, the Gracious Nature of the Mediator God and Man, with his most Gracious undertaken Office of Saving and Reconciling. Thirdly, the sufficiency of Christs Death and satisfaction for all the world, to save them if they will Accept him and his Grace: I put it in terms beyond dispute, because I would not build up Believers Comforts on points which godly Divines do contradict (as little as may be:) Yet I am past all Doubt my self, that Christ did actually make satisfaction to Gods Justice for All; and that no man perisheth for want of an Expiatory sacrifice, but for want of faith to believe and apply it, or for want of Repentance, and yielding to Recovering Grace. The fourth is, The Universal Grant of pardon, and Right to salvation, on Condition of Faith and Repentance. If your Doubt arise from the Ignorance or overlooking of any of these, to these must you have recourse for your Cure.

2. On the other side, if your Doubts arise from any Defect in your Apprehensions of General Grace; it is not your looking after Marks in your self that is the way to Resolve them. I told you in the beginning, that the General Grounds of Comfort lie in four particulars (that square Foundation which will bear up all the Faith of the Saints.) First, Gods merciful and unconceivably Good and ⟨p. 492⟩Gracious Nature, and his Love to mankind. Secondly, the Gracious Nature of the Mediatour God and Man, with his most Gracious undertaken Office of Saving and Reconciling. Thirdly, the sufficiency of Christs Death and satisfaction for all the world, to save them if they will Accept him and his Grace: I put it in terms beyond dispute, because I would not build up Believers Comforts on points which godly Divines do contradict (as little as may be:) Yet I am past all Doubt my self, that Christ did actually make satisfaction to Gods Justice for All; and that no man perisheth for want of an Expiatory sacrifice, but for want of faith to believe and apply it, or for want of Repentance, and yielding to Recovering Grace. The fourth is, The Universal Grant of pardon, and Right to salvation, on Condition of Faith and Repentance. If your Doubt arise from the Ignorance or overlooking of any of these, to these must you have recourse for your Cure.