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that which made us call our Presumption Faith, is the same which makes us call our Faith presumption: because we lay it for a ground, that it is our honesty or good disposition, and so and so qualified frame, that must commend us to God: and therefore while we conceive that we have that, it's the ground of our presumption, and when the Conscience is wakened and we find that we want that, we cannot believe. A Fourth Cause or ground whence this, in some, may proceed, who would fain believe, is not so much their darkness and ignorance of the way, as the backwardness, frowardness, and deceit of their heart, that will not, for them, come up to it: such are puzzled and perplexed what to do, because they cannot get it well ⟨p. 219⟩done & as they would: such are like a good Archer that can shoot well, but hath a deceitful bow, which when he hath put his Arrow on the string and hath drawn it to the very head starts aside and makes him quite miss his mark the fault and defect is not in the mans skill, but in the Bow: we the rather make use of this Comparison, that the Holy Ghost doth so in the Scripture, resembling our heart to a deceitful bow that turns aside: So that, they who are acquainted with their own hearts, know not what to do with them, how to guide them, and bring them up unto or bold them at any thing that is good; and though, it may be, they could to good purpose give directions to others in such a case: yet they find their own hearts very untractable to admit of them, as if they did not suit or meet with their own case. This is indeed a very puzzling difficulty, yet to such perplexed Souls there is no new direction to be given, but the renewed exercise of faith, and to put the directions, which they know, in practice; and when one shot (to speak so) misgives, to essay another, not to seek (as it were) a new string, but to cast a new knot on it, and if two knots should slip, to cast a third, improving more that Grace of •he Covenant to make them hold better; Therefore, Acts 2 When those pricked in their hearts ask, what they shall do, Peter bids them Repent: they were begun to do so, and he bids them be doing and go on:

that which made us call our Presumption Faith, is the same which makes us call our Faith presumption: because we lay it for a ground, that it is our honestie or good disposition, and so and so qualified frame, that must commend us to God: and therefore while we conceive that we have that, it's the ground of our presumption, and when the Conscience is wakened and we find that we want that, we cannot believe. A Fourth Cause or ground whence this, in some, may proceed, who would fain believe, is not so much their darkness and ignorance of the way, as the backwardness, frowardness, and deceit of their heart, that will not, for them, come up to it: such are puzzled and perplexed what to do, because they cannot get it well