utterly uncertain whether you have a saving right to them; or whether God will accept a sacrifice at your hand? When you should grow and go forward, you will have little heart to it, because you know not whether you are yet in the way; and this will damp your life and comfort in every duty, when you must say, ‘I know not whether yet I be thoroughly converted.’ O therefore stop not the work at first. (5.) And lastly, If the work be thoroughly done at first you will persevere, when others fall away.
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