would get assurance must work by the help of the Spirit, he must try himself and his graces by the Word, through the help of the Spirit. In the fourth place,Rule 4. He that would get assu∣rance must carefully avoid all the hinderances thereof, in the generall he must shun and avoid all sinne, more especially these sinnes. Ignorance, Atheisme, Prophannesse and Hypocrisie, Vnbe∣lief and Impenitency, Erronious Opinions, Pre∣sumption and Desperation, neglect of the meanes of Grace, formall Vse of them, and Rebellion a∣gainst them, strangnesse with God, and Iesus Christ. Fifthly, He that would get assurance,Rule 5. must la∣bour for all those qualifications and graces which may render him capable f it, and which God usually imparts this blessing to; First, he must become a new Bottle, I mean a new Creature, for assurance is new wine, and Christ will not put it into an old Bottle, for it would burst the Bottle, Labour therefore for grace, trush of grace, every renewing grace; But more especi∣ally these graces, Knowledg, Faith, Sincerity, Heart-humility, Contritition accompanied with Convertion and new Obedience:A true be∣leever only is capable of assu∣rance. Assurance will not dwell in an Ignorant, Vnbelieving, Hy∣pocriticall Heart, therefore he that would attain it must labour for those graces which are contra∣ry to these vices; God dwels as a reviver in the heart of the humble and contrite sinner, He re∣vives the spirit of the humble,Isa. 57.15.66, 2. and the heart of the contrite ones; Iesus Christ puts the strongest wine in broken Bottles, I do not say in∣to old, but into broken Bottles, he binds up the broken hearted; He therefore that would get assurance, must labour for an humble and bro∣ken 0