Hence we learn by way of Instruction: An ignorant 1[…] is a naughty heart, whether out of blindness they ⟨p. 91⟩do not, or out of profaneness they will not understand, and look into their estates. He that never saw his sin aright, he never yet saw good day, nor the least appearance of any saving work of Gods grace in his soul, yea he is so far from attaining such a condition, that in truth he is not in the way to it. We will go no further than the consideration of the former truth, and then let thy Conscience be judg in the case propounded. Suppose then thou shouldest hear a distressed creature under the terror of his Conscience freely and ingeniously lay open his condition unto thee. The day is yet to dawn and the hour yet to come, that ever he was touched with any sense of sinful rebellions, never yet Godly sorrow came into my soul, nor remorse into my Conscience for all my many […] before God and men, wounds of Conscience, burdens of spirit, and brokenness of heart for our daily departures and provocations they are wonders and riddles. I have heard of such dispositions, but am a stranger to the having of the least work that way. I appeal to thy own Conscience, what wouldest thou think of such a party, who thus confesseth, and is as he confesseth? me thinks I hear thee answering, and thy heart shaking before thou givest it, What! senseless of his sin! how fearful is his estate! Where there is no sense, there can be no sorrow, no repentance, therefore no Christ, nor pardon, nor Salvation, for unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Never broken, God will never bind, so far from being good that he is not yet in the way to receive any good. Woe unto him that hath thus sinned, and thus continues. Oh poor ignorant Creature thine own mouth hath condemned thee, thou hast past […] against thine own soul, thou never hadst a true sight of thy sins, therefore thou couldest never have a true sense of them, or sorrow for them; thou never haddest a sound apprehension, thou canst not have a through contrition for them. It came not near thy heart to break it, when it never touched it in ⟨p. 92⟩Truth, nay, it never was within thy ken to see it in aright manner: See yet thy misery further in enlarged these several Degrees following:
Hence we learn by way of Instruction: An ignorant 1〈…〉 is a naughty heart, whether out of blindness they ⟨p. 91⟩do not, or out of prophaness they wil not understand, and look into their estates. He that never saw his sin aright, he never yet saw good day, nor the least appearance of any saving work of Gods grace in his soul, yea he is so far from attaining such a condition, that in truth he is not in the way to it. We wil go no further than the consideration of the former truth, and then let thy Conscience be judg in the case propounded. Suppose then thou shouldest hear a distressed creature under the terror of his Conscience freely and ingeniously lay open his condition unto thee. The day is yet to dawn and the hour yet to come, that ever he was touched with any sence of sinful rebellions, never yet Godly sorrow came into my soul, nor remorse into my Conscience for al my many 〈…〉 before God and men, wounds of Conscience, burdens of spirit, and brokenness of heart for our daily departures and provocations they are wonders and riddles. I have heard of such dispositions, but am a stranger to the having of the least work that way. I appeal to thy own Conscience, what wouldest thou think of such a party, who thus confesseth, and is as he confesseth? me thinks I hear thee answering, and thy heart shaking before thou givest it, What! senceless of his sin! how fearful is his estate! Where there is no sence, there can be no sorrow, no repentance, therefore no Christ, nor pardon, nor Salvation, for unless ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Never broken, God will never bind, so far from being good that he is not yet in the way to receive any good. Wo unto him that hath thus sinned, and thus continues. Oh poor ignorant Creature thine own mouth hath condemned thee, thou hast past 〈…〉 against thine own soul, thou never hadst a true sight of thy sins, therefore thou couldest never have a true sence of them, or sorrow for them; thou never hadest a sound apprehension, thou canst not have a through contrition for them. It came not near thy heart to break it, when it never touched it in ⟨p. 92⟩Truth, nay, it never was within thy ken to see it in aright manner: See yet thy misery further in enlarged these several Degrees following:
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