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True Grace in the Soul may be seemingly, but not really at a losse. [ 1968]

AS it is amongst us in a Court of Record, the Seal being once passed is as true a Seal,* 1.1 and as good evidence in Law, (though the print be defaced, diminished, and not so apparent) as any that is most fair, fresh, full, and not defaced at all. So it is, that the least drop of true Grace in the Soul can never be exhausted, nor the least dram of true spiritual joy be quite dryed up or an∣nihilated; And why so? because that in the Court of Heaven, when on a sea∣ling day the Graces of Gods Spirit are stamped on the Soul, it may, and doth, of∣tentimes so fall out, that there may be afterwards a dimnesse of the Seal, and the

marks,* 1.2 as it were, may be worn out, so that the fair impression, once so visibly seen, may not at present appear; yet all this marrs not the evidence, nor ought to weaken the assurance of Heaven, for there it shall go currant, and hold out in the matter of right as a greater, fairer, and fuller, because it was once as good as any; and once loved, ever loved to the end.

Notes

• * 1.1

  J. R. in lib. cui titulus 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 vel sponsa coe••estis.
• * 1.2

  Quoad apos••a∣sia•••• Sancto∣rum, in illis gra••••a possit suspendi non 〈◊〉〈◊〉, &c.