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holy repose of soul in God through Christ,
with a secret disposition to fear and love Him, and to hope for
blessings from Him in this way. Yet they have no imagination that they
are now converted; it does not so much as come in their minds: and very
often the reason is, that they do not see that they accept of this
sufficiency of salvation they behold in Christ, having entertained a
wrong notion of acceptance; not being sensible that the obedient and
joyful entertainment which their hearts give to this discovery of grace
is a real acceptance of it. They know not that the sweet complacence
they feel in the mercy and complete salvation of God, as it includes
pardon and sanctification, and is held forth to them only through
Christ, is a true receiving of this mercy, or a plain evidence of their
receiving it. They expected I know not what kind of act of soul, and
perhaps they had no distinct idea of it themselves.

And indeed it appears very plainly in some of them, that before their
own conversion they had very imperfect ideas what conversion was. It is
all new and strange, and what there was no clear conception of before.
It is most evident, as they themselves acknowledge, that the expressions
used to describe conversion, and the graces of God's Holy Spirit-such as
a spiritual sight of Christ, faith in Christ, poverty of spirit, trust
in God, etc.-did not convey those distinct ideas to their minds which
they were intended to signi