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born down and mastered with their Corruption for The Exercise and Trial of their Faith and Patience, as some of the Cananites were left in the Land to try whether the Israelites would keep the Lord's Way or not. Away then with such an Objection, and resolve to believe your Sin is pardoned, notwithstanding of remaining Corruption: But if ye will not believe as long as ye find such Corruption in you, ye will never believe ye are pardoned as long at ye live: For ye will never want Corruption while ye are in this World.
Said she, Doctor Jameson at Newcastle said, The more Grace, the less Corruption; the more Corruption, the less Grace. Said I, This is also true, the more Grace a Man hath it shall be the better tryed, and he shall be sure of the more Temptations: We must not conclude we have little Grace, because we have many Temptations, but we must rather conclude the contrair.
Said she, All Grace is so feeble and weak in me, that I cannot tell whether I have any or not.
Said I, Madam, ye know a new born Man child is a small Thing, yet he is a reasonable Creature, and a Man tho' he has not the Exercise of Reason to know this; Grace is as little as Reason in a new born Babe: Therefore if ye find your own Weakness, and belittle in your own Eyes, and if ye mourn because your Grace it so little, and would fain have it encreased, and if ye use the best Means that ye can to make it grow, then be assured ye have Grace.
Then, crying out, she said, Away, away, speak not to me of any Grace I have; for I am graceless, I feel not so much as a Dram of any Grace; but, on the contrair, much ill Stuff.
Said I, I see ye are striking on another String ye are going to Sense and Feeling with the Matter: But I with Joy remember I heard you say, at such a Communion, that ye had great Sense and Feeling, and that ye felt much joy in Prayer: What say you now?
Said she, I told you before, that these Feelings were all but false Conception of Joy. Said I, If you have not Feeling now, it is little Matter; ye will get Feeling, if God will, ere it be long. Davidhad
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