5. Little more _excuse_ have you, who are still in _doubt_ concerning _this_ day of your visitation. For you have all the proof that you can reasonably expect or desire, all that the nature of the thing requires. That in many places, abundance of notorious sinners are totally reformed, is declared by a thousand eye and ear-witnesses, both of their present and past behaviour. And you are sensible, the proof of such a point as this must, in the nature of things rest upon testimony. And that God alone is able to work such a reformation, you know all the scriptures testify. What would you have more? What pretence can you have, for _doubting_ any longer? You have not the least room to expect or desire any other, or any stronger evidence. I trust, you are not of those who _fortify_ themselves against conviction; who are “_resolved_ they will never believe this.” They ask, “who are these men?” We tell them plainly: but they credit us not. Another and another of their own friends is convinced, and tells them the same thing. But their answer is ready, “Are _you_ turned methodist too?” So _their_ testimony likewise goes for nothing. Now how is it possible these should ever be convinced? For they will believe none but those who speak on _one_ side. 6. Do you delay fixing your judgment, till you see a work of God, without any stumbling-block attending it? That neither is yet nor ever will. _It must needs be, that offences will come._ And scarce ever was there such a work of God before, with so few as have attended _this_. When the _reformation_ began, what mountainous offences lay in the way, of even the sincere members of the church of _Rome_? They saw _such_ failings in those great men, _Luther_ and _Calvin_! Their vehement _tenaciousness_ of their own opinions; their _bitterness_ toward all who differed from them; their _impatience_ of contradiction and utter want of _forbearance_, even with their own brethren. But the grand stumbling-block of all, was, their open _avowed separation_ from the church; their rejecting so many of the _doctrines_ and _practices_, which the others accounted the most sacred; and their continual _invectives_ against the church they separated from, so much sharper than _Michael_’s reproof of _Satan_. Where there fewer stumbling-blocks attending the _reformation_ in _England_? Surely no, for what was _Henry_ the Eighth? Consider, either his _character_, his _motives_ to the work, or his _manner_ of pursuing it! And even king _Edward’s ministry_ we cannot clear, of _persecuting_ in their turns, yea and _burning hereticks_. The main stumbling-block also still remained, _viz._ open _separation_ from the church.