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Thirteenthly, Consider you must never judg your selves unsound,¹ or Hypocrites, by those things which the Scripture never makes a Character of an unsound Christian, or of an Hypocrite, or of Hypocrisy. Mark, as you are to receive no comfort, but what is backed with clear Scripture, nor no evidences for the goodness and happiness of your spiritual estate and condition, but such as are backed with clear Scriptures; so you are to receive, you are to admit of no Arguments, nor pleas, nor reasonings, to prove your self an Hypocrite, or unsound, or that you have no Grace, or that your spiritual estate and condition is not good, but such Arguments pleas, and reasonings, as are backed with clear Scriptures. Now tell me O thou weak doubting staggering trembling Christian, if thou canst, where are those clear Scriptures that proves wandering thoughts in Duty, or that proves narrowness or straitness of Spirit in a duty, to be characters of an Hypocrite, or of hypocrisy, or of one ⟨p. 75⟩that is unsound? tell me O thou sighing Christian, if thou canst, where are those clear Scriptures that proves the want of a good memory for the best things, or the want of those gifts or abilities that many Christians have, to Pray, to speak, to discourse, to open Scripture, or to dispute for the concernments of Christ and his Kingdom, to be characters of an Hypocrite or of hypocrisy, or of one that is unsound? Tell me O thou distressed Christian if thou canst, where are those clear Scriptures that will justify thee to conclude that thou art an Hypocrite, because thou art without the present evidence of thy sincerity? Are there not many of the precious sons and daughters of Zion comparable to fine gold,