Seasonable truths in evil-times in several sermons / lately preached in and about London

But there is a third sort of sinners, that finding their souls ill at ease, they can go forth for counsel, and go out for admonition, and go out for reprehension. It may be that all these three conditions have past over some of you: you can remember the time when you did kick and fling, and spit in the Physicians face, as it were, and you would none at all; afterwards you lay more still, but yet sate, and did not stir out: I but now you are able God be thanked to go out to the Physician, or to such and such Saints, and to open your condition before them; Oh thus it's with me, Oh thus it's with me! come, lay on some Admonition, or lay on some healing Plaster, some Reprehension, some Consolation; good Sir pity me; and the like. Now this argues more health then before.

But there is a third sort of sinners, that finding their souls ill at ease, they can go forth for counsel, and go out for admonition, and go out for reprehension. It may be that all these three conditions have past over some of you: you can remember the time when you did kick and fling, and spit in the Physicians face, as it were, and you would none at all; afterwards you lay more still, but yet sate, and did not stir out: I but now you are able God be thanked to go out to the Physician, or to such and such Saints, and to open your condition before them; Oh thus it's with me, Oh thus it's with me! come, lay on some Admonition, or lay on some healing Plaister, some Reprehension, some Consolation; good Sir pitie me; and the like. Now this argues more health then before.

Again, the more you are able to do the work ⟨p. 18⟩of the Lord without noise, the more doth it argue that you are grown in grace. Beloved, Jesus Christ was a perfect workman, and did the work of the Lord perfectly, and he made no noise; it is said of him, that he did not lift up his voice in the streets. Young Christians make a great noise in the work of God: one he cries out, Oh I am damned, I am damned! and another cries out after the same kind, Oh I am damned, I am damned! and wring their hands in the family, and make a great noise when there is a work of God upon their hearts; like to your young Scholars, when first of all they learn their books, they read with a great noise: afterwards, when they are grown men, and read better, they read silent, and make no noise. So now I say, Thou man or woman, art thou able to do the work of the Lord in a more silent and sweet Gospel-way then heretofore thou didst? this argues that thou art more grown then thou wert heretofore.