chapter 20 I have heard multitudes testifying of it; complaints are received from many in this nation, and the neighboring nations, that there is a significant decline in the power of grace and life of faith, among all sorts of believers. Some of them will go further in their evidence, and tell us that they find the effects of it in themselves; they find it a matter of great difficulty, requiring significant watchfulness and diligence, to maintain their former spiritual states; and even after all their efforts, they do not achieve their desire.