I. Scripture-light the most sure light ... delivered in three sermons on 2 Pet.…

Answ. 3 But Thirdly, Though for the present, you do want Assurance of Gods love, and of your own Salvation: yet if you may conclude by Scripture Arguments, that you shall have it before you die, then have you no reason to be discouraged: Now, though this or that particular Christian, in a case not ordinary, do die under a cloud, and with much fear, and doubting about his everlasting condition; yet there are Arguments in scripture, whereby a man may ordinarily know, and conclude, that he shall have peace and Assurance before he dies. For example,

Answ. 3 But Thirdly, Though for the present, you do want Assurance of Gods love, and of your own Salvation: yet if you may conclude by Scripture Arguments, that you shal have it before you die, then have you no reason to be discouraged: Now, though this or that particular Christian, in a case not ordinary, do die under a cloud, and with much fear, and doubting about his everlasting condition; yet there are Arguments in scripture, whereby a man may ordinarily know, and conclude, that he shal have peace and Assurance before he dies. For example,

Arg. 1 First, He that is content to stay, and go without a mercy, if God will have it so, shall not want it for ever: For the Patient abiding of the meek, shall no• be forgotten for ever: ¹As the way to have affliction continued, is to be discontented under it, so the way to have it removed, is to be contented with it. There is a Faith of Expectance, a Faith of Reliance, and the Faith of Assurance. The Faith of Expectance, will rise up into a Faith of Reliance, and the Faith of Reliance, to the Faith of Assurance, there is seldom a may-be Faith, but hath a shall-be, and it is at the bottom, if God would make it float.

Arg. 1 First, He that is content to stay, and go without a mercy, if God wil have it so, shal not want it for ever: For the Patient abiding of the meek, shal no• be forgotten for ever: