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USE IV.

Of Direction: To Saints how to get the knowledge of your sincerity; by getting such visib•• actings of grace, that you may know them ce•• tainly to be the acts of saving grace: it is a gre•• exercise to some Saints, whether they be since•• Saints, they labour in it for many years; and o•• Minister gives signs, and they try themselves […] them, and another gives signs, and they try themselves by them; and sometimes they think th• see the signs of Saints, and sometimes the sign of hypocrites: and they don't know what […] make of themselves: the best way is to get su• exercise of grace, that you may know it to […] grace; don't let grace lie in a withering condi•• on: let it flourish, that it may act visibly: th• you may certainly know it: your walk witho•• this, will never clear up your good condition.

Of Direction: To Saints how to get the knowledge of your sincerity; by getting such visib•• actings of grace, that you may know them ce•• tainly to be the acts of saving grace: it is a gre•• exercise to some Saints, whether they be since•• Saints, they labour in it for many years; and o•• Minister gives signs, and they try themselves them, and another gives signs, and they try themselves by them; and sometimes they think th see the signs of Saints, and sometimes the sign of hypocrites: and they don't know what make of themselves: the best way is to get su exercise of grace, that you may know it to grace; don't let grace lie in a withering condi on: let it flourish, that it may act visibly: th you may certainly know it: your walk witho this, will never clear up your good condition.