unto him, yea, promised rest and forgiveness if they come; Matt. xi.
28. What ground then to despair? Verily none at all. Thy despair
then is a thing unreasonable and without footing in the word.

But I have no experience of God's love; God hath given me no comfort,
or ground of hope, though I have waited upon him for it many a day.

Thou hast experience of God's love, for that he has opened thine eyes
to see thy sins: and for that he has given thee desires to be saved
by Jesus Christ. For by thy sense of sin thou art made to see thy
poverty of spirit, and that has laid thee under a sure ground to hope
that heaven shall be thine hereafter.

Also thy desires to be saved by Christ, has put thee under another
promise, so there is two to hold thee up in them, though thy present
burden be never so heavy, Matt. v. 3, 6. As for what thou sayst, as
to God's silence to thee, perhaps he has spoken to thee once or twice
already, but thou hast not perceived it; Job xxxiii. 14, 15.

However, thou hast Christ crucified, set forth before thine eyes in
the Bible, and an invitation to come unto him, though thou be a
Jerusalem sinner, though thou be the biggest sinner; and so no ground
to despair. What, if God will be silent to thee, is that ground of
despair? Not at all, so long as there is a promise in the Bible that
God will in no wise cast away the coming sinner, and so long as he
invites the Jerusalem sinner to come unto him John vi. 37.

Build not therefore despair upon these things; they are no sufficient
foundations for it, such plenty of promises being in the Bible, and
such a discovery of his mercy to great sinners of old; especially