Certain select cases resolved specially tending to the right ordering of the heart, that…

But here you will say is the difficulty,¹ viz. how I should to seek for the good of absolute ⟨p. 33⟩promises, as therein to find my self within the compass of some conditional one.

But here you will say is the difficulty,¹ viz. how I should to seeke for the good of absolute ⟨p. 33⟩promises, as therein to finde my self within the compasse of some conditionall one.

1. 1Object.

I answer, It is done chiefly by three acts.

1. By being humbly contented, that seeing the Lord hath absolutely promised, to work and do all for the Soul he intends for to save, even when it can do nothing for it self, and that he hath taken the work into his own hands; so that it is his promise, offer, office and honour to do all, that therefore you lie down, not sluggishly, but humbly at the feet of God, and contented to have him to be your God, and for ever to be disposed of in any thing by God, if he will fulfil his covenant in you, contented to part with any sin, if he will rend it from you, contented to know any truth if he will reveal it to you, contented to do any duty if he will enable you, contented to shine bright with all his glorious graces, if he will create and maintain them in you, contented to bear any evil if he will lay his hand under your head, and thereunto strengthen you; and so seeing the Lord promised to undertake the work for some, put out the work, and put over your Soul to him, that he would fulfil the good that his covenant promiseth in your self. Now when you do thus, which (no question) you and many a Soul doth, many times reflect upon this act, and see if you cannot or may not find your self by it under the condition of some conditional promise, and if you do, then are you bound to believe all Gods promises are and will be Yea and Amen unto you. Now that you do so by