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Rh know like an angel, and yet be no Christian; therefore your sign of it is not true. Indeed, to know, is a thing that pleaseth talkers and boasters; but to do is that which pleaseth God.

You are trying to catch me again: this is not profitable.

Well, if you please, name another sign how this work of grace showeth itself where it is.

Not I; for I see we shall not agree. Faith. Well, if you will not, will you give me leave to do it?

You may say what you please.

God's work in the soul showeth itself either to him that hath it or to standers by. To him that has it, it is shown by making him see and feel his own sins. To others who are standing by it is shown by his life, a life of doing right in the sight of God. And now, sir, as to this brief account of the work of grace, and also the showing of it, if you have aught to object, object; if not, then give me leave to ask you a second question.

Nay, my part is not now to object, but to hear; let me, therefore, have your second question.

It is this: Have you felt your own sins, and have you turned from them? And do your life and conduct show it the same? Or is your religion in word or in tongue, and not in deed and truth? Pray, if you incline to answer me in this, say no more than you know the God above will