Sacramental meditations upon divers select places of scripture

If an Angel should appear and tell us Christ had said to him, Go and tell such a man, that I love him, that I shed ⟨p. 63⟩my blood for him, and will save him; it could never give that repose and satisfaction to the mind as the internal Witness or Seal of the spirit doth; for that may be a delusion, but this cannot. The witness of our own heart may amount to a strong probability; but the witness of the spirit is demonstration, 1 Joh. 4. 24.

So that as it is the design and work of Satan to cast in doubts and fears into gracious hearts,: to perplex and entangle them, so oppositely it is the work of the Spirit to clear and settle the sanctified soul, and fill it with peace and joy in believing, Joh. 16. 7. Rom. 14. 17.

So that as it is the design and work of Satan to cast in doubts and fears into gracious hearts,: to perplex and intangle them, so oppositely it is the work of the Spirit to clear and settle the sanctified soul, and fill it with peace and joy in believing, Joh. 16. 7. Rom. 14. 17.

In Sealing he both attests the fidem quae creditur, the doctrine or object of Faith; and the fidem quâ creditur, the infused habit, or grace of Faith: Of the former he saith, this is my Word, of the latter, this is my Work; and his Seal or Testimony is evermore agreeable to the written word,