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The first,¹ is the principal and ground of all, namely, The assurance of your interest in the Covenant of Grace, that you are received by God into that free, rich, glorious Covenant of life in Christ; That now you are not to stand or fall, by what is in your selves, or what comes from you, but by the perfect righteousness of that blessed Mediator, who hath undertaken your Cause with God: doubts and fears, about this, do much weaken the spirits of men, when troubles come upon them.

The first,¹ is the principall and ground of all, namely, The assurance of your interest in the Covenant of Grace, that you are received by God into that free, rich, glorious Covenant of life in Christ; That now you are not to stand or fall, by what is in your selves, or what comes from you, but by the perfect righteousnesse of that blessed Mediator, who hath undertaken your Cause with God: doubts and fears, about this, doe much weaken the spirits of men, when troubles come upon them.

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Secondly,¹ in the assurance of Gods fatherly love unto, and care over you, in the sorest and hardest afflictions that can befall you. As it is an argument of much ignorance, to persuade ones self that God loves one, because of present prosperity; so it is exceeding weakness, to call Gods love in question, upon the feeling the smart of affliction, to think that none of Gods people are afflicted in such a ⟨image 136⟩kind as I am; If it were in some other kind, it were not so much, but being thus, I am afraid that God never loved me, and that he hath now quite forsaken me.