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 that the Convictions of all have been alike deep, durable and genuine; yet I assure you there’s been Days of Power there, and such Days as I take to be in Answer to the Prayers, Wishes and Wrestlings of such as seek the Face of the God of Jacob with their whole Hearts Desire, even yet in this Day of Upfittenness, Deadness and Formality: But such as are otherwise minded, they'll oblige me if they answer the subsequent Queries.

Q. 1. Where doth it appear that Satan ever promoted the Interest of his Kingdom purely by the preached Gospel, since ’tis the very Device infinite Wisdom hath contrived for its Overthrow?

Q. 2. Where can we instance that Satan wrought in People an earnest Desire and Thirsting after the Ordinances as new-born Babes after the Breast?

Q. 3. If it be not rather one of the Depths and Devices of Satan, to lull People asleep in Security and Thoughtlesness about a future State, rather than to prompt them, jointly with exercised Folk, to wake when others sleep, in praying, wrestling, praising, religious Conference, and proposing Doubts and Fears about their spiritual State?

Q. 4. Doth it not appear evident that ’tis the Spirit of the Lord poured down, when we see young Ones, not come to Age to discern betwixt the right Hand and the left in religious Concerns, having the Gift and the Grace of Prayer; as appears by their fervent Expostulations, importunate Wrestlings, and, in the Tongue of the Learned, speaking Words in Season to Christians of old Standing?

Q. 5. Granting there may be Hypocrites among them, if some have been brought savingly to lieve