Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

2 The next Work of Gods Spirit, is to make the soul sensible of its wretched, miserable condition, affecting it with some measure of grief and sorrow for the same. This method likewise the Lord observed in those three thousand Converts, mentioned Acts 2. 37. where it is said, When they heard this, i. e. when they were convinced of that horrible Sin of theirs, in Crucifying the Lord of life, they were pricked in their hearts, viz. with the sense and apprehension of their wretched, miserable condition. Examine therefore whether thou hast been truly sensible of thy wretched, miserable condition, and whether the sense thereof hath affected thee with true grief and sorrow for the same. Though all men are no• alike afflicted with a sense of their wretched, miserable condition, ⟨p. 72⟩but some much more deeply than others; yet few pass through the pangs of their New Birth, without some throws, some grief and sorrow for their sins; neither can I conceive how any should close with Jesus Christ as their Saviour, till they have been so sensible of their sins, as that they are sensible of their need of a Saviour.

2 The next Work of Gods Spirit, is to make the soul sensible of its wretched, miserable condition, affecting it with some measure of grief and sorrow for the same. This method likewise the Lord observed in those three thousand Converts, mentioned Acts 2. 37. where it is said, When they heard this, i. e. when they were convinced of that horrible Sin of theirs, in Crucifying the Lord of life, they were pricked in their hearts, viz. with the sence and apprehension of their wretched, miserable condition. Examine therefore whether thou hast been truly sensible of thy wretched, miserable condition, and whether the sence thereof hath affected thee with true grief and sorrow for the same. Though all men are no• alike afflicted with a sence of their wretched, miserable condition, ⟨p. 72⟩but some much more deeply than others; yet few pass through the pangs of their New Birth, without some throws, some grief and sorrow for their sins; neither can I conceive how any should cloze with Jesus Christ as their Saviour, till they have been so sensible of their sins, as that they are sensible of their need of a Saviour.