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

3. If you would know when these things only draw out grace, or make a thing like un•o grace in the Soul, I answer, by these two things chiefly.

3. If you would know when these things onely draw out grace, or make a thing like un•o grace in the Soul, I answer, by these two things chiefly.

1. If it be true grace, it ever makes you more humble and vile in your own eyes, and say, Lord, why dost thou give me any desire ⟨p. 50⟩to thee, any cheerfulness in serving thee? &c.

1. If it be true grace, it ever makes you more humble and vile in your owne eyes, and say, Lord, why dost thou give me any desire ⟨p. 50⟩to thee, any cheerfulnesse in serving thee? &c.

2. It makes you more thankful, and to bless the Lord that he thus remembers you, for this is a standing rule, what ever comes from nature, and a mans self, it ever builds up it self, and returns to self again; what ever grace comes from Christ, it drives a man out of himself, by making him humble, and draws him unto Christ that sent him, by making him thankful; I think all grace, and stirrings, and movings, that have not this double effect in some measure, are to be suspected, and if they have, it is dangerous to doubt whether they are true or no.