CHAP. 2.
Satisfaction to dejected soules, labouring under the feare of the truth of grace.
BUt alas! say some, who are cast downe, our doubts are not so much about a worke of grace; As about the truth of grace. I doubt (saith a soul) whether my grace be true;* 1.1 some worke I have had, and something is brought forth, but I question whether it be not counter∣feit.
Albeit this fear bee almost the same with the former,* 1.2 yet because I find some dejected soules making it a distinct doubt. I shal therefore speak distinctly to it. And in order to the satisfaction of a soule cast down, and discovering its selfe in this feare, I shall offer two things, viz.
Something
- 1 More generally,
- 2 More particularly.
First, More generally, I desire such dejected soules, as are troubled about this fear, to con∣sider 3 things.