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2. But the visible actings of Grace will ••isfy all sorts of Christians. We may distinguish Christians into two sorts; some are persons […] great understanding and knowledge, they ••ve a deep insight into those ways of deceit ••d hypocrisy that the heart is subject to: ••d they are apt to be puzzled with questions ••d doubts, that fly over the heads of others; ••ey are afraid of such deceits as other men ••n't suspect: but when they have plain visible •••rkings of Grace, that they know to be Grace, ••is fully satisfies them: Thou knowest that I ••e thee. Joh. 21.17. Others are weak and ignorant and can't give many signs of true Grace, ⟨p. 19⟩nor distinctly take them up, when they are laid down: yet when they plainly see the visible actings of saving Grace, the thing is pu• beyond question. A weak woman is as we• satisfied that she loves her child as the wisef• man in the land, though she can't make a larg• discourse upon it, nor prove it by infallible sign• because she feels her love: so it is in this case.

2. But the visible actings of Grace will ••isfy all sorts of Christians. We may distinguish Christians into two sorts; some are persons 〈…〉 great understanding and knowledge, they ••ve a deep insight into those ways of deceit ••d hypocrisy that the heart is subject to: d they are apt to be puzled with questions d doubts, that fly over the heads of others; ey are afraid of such deceits as other men n't suspect: but when they have plain visible rkings of Grace, that they know to be Grace, is fully satisfyes them: Thou knowest that I e thee.