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

Now reflect upon this act, and see if you may not find some conditional promise annexed unto it, which surely you may, and I will name you but two, Isa. 40. 29, 30, 31. and Isa. 64. 4. and if the conditional promise belongs to such a Soul, you may easily conclude the absolute promises are your own, and the chiefest use you are to make of them when you know them that they are your own, is to press God to make them good daily to you: and to believe as verily and really, as if you had the performance of them, that they shall. It may be you will ask me, how shall I know whether I have these conditions truly in me? I answer, sincerity is a very witnessing grace, the frequent meditation of the Scripture will give you much light, to judge of the sincerity of them, and that which Saint Paul speaks 1 Cor. 2. 12. I say unto you, We have not received the spirit of the World, but of God, whereby we know. (or may know) the things that are freely given to us of God.

Now reflect upon this act, and see if you may not finde some conditionall promise annexed unto it, which surely you may, and I will name you but two, Isa. 40. 29, 30, 31. and Isa. 64. 4. and if the conditionall promise belongs to such a Soul, you may easily conclude the absolute promises are your owne, and the chiefest use you are to make of them when you know them that they are your owne, is to presse God to make them good daily to you: and to believe as verily and really, as if you had the performance of them, that they shall. It may be you will aske me, how shall I know whether I have these conditions truly in me? I answer, sincerity is a very witnessing grace, the frequent meditation of the Scripture will give you much light, to judge of the sincerity of them, and that which Saint Paul speakes 1 Cor. 2. 12. I say unto you, We have not received the spirit of the World, but of God, wherby we know. (or may know) the things that are freely given to us of God.