times give way to doubting, and God-dishonouring unbelief? Do you not lie against your right, and offend the Lord in a fit of ingratitude, and too often indulge your suspicions and your complaints? Is not this giving place to satan, to harrass your mind, and keep up the distance between God, and your soul; setting you at questioning the reality of a work of grace in the heart, and begetting a fear in your soul that you are nothing but an hypocrite? The world, perhaps, joins in it and says the same: oh, you are nothing but an hypocrite. Perhaps providence seems contrary, troubles befal you, the members of the same church are permitted to suspect your religion, and condemn you only as an hypocrite. Under this opposition I have sighed and wept. Yet will you believe it, even this has done me much good: the fears of being an hypocrite, and being found so in death and judgment, have driven me to pray that God would _make_ me sincere and without offence. By persevering in prayer I have obtained fresh light; the Lord has cast a ray on the track he has led me; and by reading the word I have been enabled to compare my past and present case with the word of God: this has often afforded me joy and peace in believing: not that I make my experience a foundation of hope, but I look upon some Bible parts of experience to be tokens for good, way-marks, evidences, and infallible signs and proofs of the electing love of God and of redemption from woe. The method I have found good to adopt has been the following:—