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Quest. 1. Are those things which you have heard, true, or are they not? Doth not the Scriptures speak the same things which I do? Dare you say that the word of Truth is False? Do but open the Bible, dip where you will, what is that you read there? Is it not something that hath a tendency to what I have been teaching of? O that you would but give your selves the trouble of searching the Scriptures, to see whether these things are so. To what purpose do you think should we spend our breath? To what purpose should we follow you with such exhortations, if we had not some grounds for what ⟨p. 270⟩we say? If there be no such thing in the word of God, why then do you not say so? Why, do you not show us it, if there be such a place that saith; there is no need of repentance, that mans condition is safe enough already, and that he may do well enough, though he be never reconciled to God? Do you think that we take delight in vexing men and women? Do you conceive that it pleaseth us to displease you, and to get your hatred? Do you not believe that a great many of us, if it might consist with Gods honour and your welfare, had not far rather be excused? Can any man imagine that so many thousands of Prophets, Apostles, and Ministers, in such distant ages, and in such distant places, should all agree in this, to impose a falsity upon the world? Would any man be so mad as to invent such things as these. which are so contrary to mens dispositions, if he had not abundant warrant from God himself? Is it possible that men should make such complaint, and shed so many tears, and be in such agonies about these things, if there were nothing at all in them? Are all the experiences of so many thousands of Saints, but mere fancies? Speak Christian, speak, What do you say to this? Are all thy joys, thy answers of Prayers, those sweet dishes that thou hast sometimes fed upon, but dreams? Doth not thy very blood stir in thee, at the very putting such a question to thee? Canst thou not say, that thou hast seen, that thou hast felt, and that thou hast known undoubtedly, that Spiritual things are realities, the greatest realities in the world, and that thou hast been as much affected with them as ever thou wert with the things of sense?

Quest. 1. Are those things which you have heard, true, or are they not? Doth not the Scriptures speak the same things which I do? Dare you say that the word of Truth is False? Do but open the Bible, dip where you will, what is that you read there? Is it not something that hath a tendency to what I have been teaching of? O that you would but give your selves the trouble of searching the Scriptures, to see whether these things are so. To what purpose do you think should we spend our breath? To what purpose should we follow you with such exhortations, if we had not some grounds for what