A sure guide to heaven, or, An earnest invitation to sinners to turn to…

First, Sin. When a Man is converted, he is for ever out with Sin, yea with all sin, Psal. 119. 128. but most of all with his own Sins, and especially with his Bosom Sin, Psal. 18. 23. Sin is now the Butt of his indignation, 2 Cor. 7. 11. he thirsts to bathe his hands in the blood of his Sins. His Sins set a broach in sorrows. It is Sin that pierces him and wounds him, he feels it like a Thorn in his side, like a prick in his Eyes, he groans and struggles under it, and not formally, but feelingly cries out, O wretched Man! he is not impatient of any burden so much as of his sin, Psal. 40. 12. If God should give him his choice, he would choose any affliction, so he might be rid of Sin. He feels it like the cutting gravel in his Shoes, pricking and paining him as he goes.

Before Conversion he had light thoughts of Sin: he cherished it in his Bosom, as Uriah his Lamb; he nourished it up, and it grew up together with him; it did eat as it were of his own Meat, and drank of his own Cup, and lay in his Bosom, and was to him as a Daughter: but when God opens his Eyes ⟨p. 33⟩by Conversion, he throws it away with abhorrence, Isa. 30. 22. as a man would a loathsome Toad, Which in the dark he had hugged fast in his Bosom, and thought it had been some pretty and harmless bird. When a man is savingly changed, he is not only deeply convinced of the danger, but defilement of sin: and O how earnest is he with God to be purified: He loathes himself for his sins, Ezek. 36. 31. He runs to Christ, and casts himself into the Fountain for sin and for uncleanness,