Treatise On the Religious Affections - Part 3 Introduction

No such signs are to be expected, that shall be sufficient to enable those saints certainly to discern their own good estate, who are very low in grace, or are such as have much departed from God, and are fallen into a dead, carnal, and unchristian frame. It is not agreeable to God's design that such should know their good estate: nor is it desirable that they should; but, on the contrary, every way best that they should not.