Bridge's remains, being VIII sermons

I answer, The Sun when it comes into a Room where the windows have no shutters, comes in by degrees; but it comes into a room where the windows have shutters, all at once. Where there are the shutters of Profaneness, Drunkenness, Uncleanness, and the like, when such men are wrought upon, the sun comes in all at once. Those that are born of godly parents, and have been educated and trained up in a godly Religious way, they are converted; but many times they cannot tell you neither the particular Minister, nor the word, nor the time when Converting grace came in upon their souls, it came in by degrees; shall such say therefore they are not truly converted? Suppose a man had had the Stone, but had got a Powder, in the use of which the Stone does wear out by degrees; shall that man say, I never had the Stone? because many that are cured of the Stone, it has been by cutting, and with a great deal of pain which I escaped, and therefore I never had the Stone. So shall I, because I have not had those terrors and troubles of Conscience that others have felt, argue therefore I am not converted? ⟨p. 199⟩No, but go and bless God that you are converted; That the Stone is wrought out of your heart in a more kindly and gentle way then in others. I say, What shall I do that I may walk worthy of God? who hath effectually called me, and in so sweet and gentle a way?

I answer, The Sun when it comes into a Room where the windows have no shutters, comes in by degrees; but it comes into a room where the windows have shutters, all at once. Where there are the shutters of Profaneness, Drunkenness, Uncleanness, and the like, when such men are wrought upon, the sun comes in all at once. Those that are born of godl• •arents, and have been educated and trained up in a godly Religious way, they are converted; but many times they cannot tell you neither the particular Minister, nor the word, nor the time when Converting grace came in upon their souls, it came in by degrees; shall such say therefore they are not truly converted? Suppose a man had had the Stone, but had got a Powder, in the use of which the Stone does wear out by degrees; shall that man say, I never had the Stone? because many that are cured of the Stone, it has been by cutting, and with a great deal of pain which I escaped, and therefore I never had the Stone. So shall I, because I have not had those terrours and troubles of Conscience that others have felt, argue therefore I am not converted?