Gospel-revelation in three treatises, viz, 1 The nature of God. 2 The excellencies of…

it is the safest way for men and women therefore to be willing to begin often, yea and sometimes it is the best and the readiest course for people that have lost their evidences for salvation, and they can see no clear evidences out of Gods Word to settle their hearts upon, for the great matter of their salvation; I say, it is the readiest way for them to do as if they were to begin again, rather than to spend time in looking out their old evidences; as a man perhaps that hath lost his evidences may have them renewed with less charge and cost than he can seek them out, and ⟨p. 328⟩so sometimes it is with the soul when it hath lost its evidences for salvation, it may get new in less time, and with less charge, than to seek out the old. It may be thou lookest to see whether thou hast not been an Hypocrite all this while, or formal: Suppose upon examination thou canst not find any thing to satisfy thy soul, but that it hath been so, yet now, what hinders but that thou mayest this instant throw thy soul upon Jesus Christ? I but I am afraid that when I have come to Christ, I have not come rightly. — I but perhaps thou mayest come to Christ in that time that thou mayest know whether thou hast come rightly, yea or nay: — But now the best way for those that are mightily troubled and solicitous about evidences whether their estate be right or no, I say, let those, rather than spend too much time in discouraging of their own hearts, begin the work again; let such a one present Jesus Christ now as a Saviour for lost man, whose grace is infinitely full, and infinitely free; and there is nothing hinders thee but that thou mayest at this very instant cast thy self upon him to be thy Saviour, both to save thee from sin, and from condemnation.

it is the safest way for men and women therefore to bee willing to begin often, yea and sometimes it is the best and the readiest course for people that have lost their evidences for salvation, and they can see no clear evidences out of Gods Word to settle their hearts upon, for the great matter of their salvation; I say, it is the readiest way for them to do as if they were to begin again, rather than to spend time in looking out their old evidences; as a man perhaps that hath lost his evidences may have them renewed with less charge and cost than hee can seek them out, and ⟨p. 328⟩so sometimes it is with the soul when it hath lost its evidences for salvation, it may get new in less time, and with less charge, than to seek out the old. It may bee thou lookest to see whether thou hast not been an Hypocrite all this while, or formal: Suppose upon examination thou canst not finde any thing to satisfie thy soul, but that it hath been so, yet now, what hinders but that thou mayest this instant throw thy soul upon Jesus Christ? I but I am afraid that when I have come to Christ, I have not come rightly. — I but perhaps thou mayest come to Christ in that time that thou mayest know whether thou hast come rightly, yea or nay: — But now the best way for those that are mightily troubled and solicitous about evidences whether their estate bee right or no, I say, let those, rather than spend too much time in discouraging of their own hearts, begin the work again; let such a one present Jesus Christ now as a Saviour for lost man, whose grace is infinitely full, and infinitely free; and there is nothing hinders thee but that thou mayest at this very instant cast thy self upon him to bee thy Saviour, both to save thee from sin, and from condemnation.