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Thirdly, Now he seeth the force of those reasons which have been used by the Ministry of the Word to persuade men to Conversion, to turn from sin to God; there is weight in those Arguments which were little regarded before, and now he begins to think seriously, there must be a Divorce between him and his Delilah.

Thirdly, Now he seeth the force of those reasons which have been used by the Ministry of the Word to perswade men to Conversion, to turn from sin to God; there is weight in those Arguments which were little regarded before, and now he begins to think seriously, there must be a Divorce between him and his Dalilah.

Fourthly, His heart begins to be loosened from his Idols; and if God will now separate between him and his fins, he doth not now resist the work of the Spirit, as before.

Mr. Shepherd makes Compunction to consist in three things. ¹1. Fear. 2. Sorrow. 3. Separation from sin. [I conceive Separation from Sin is more properly an effect of Compunction, then a part of it. Fear and Sorrow produce this effect, make the Soul not to resist the Spirit, or not unwilling to have his Sin and Soul parted.] ²So much loosening from sin as makes the Soul willing, or at least not unwilling, that the Lord Jesus should take it away. This severing from Sin he conceives to be a further stroke found in the Elect then in the Reprobate: ³Fears and Sorrows were common to both; but this severing from Sin the Spirit works in the Elect under Compunction.