A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

do you think it enough to lay close Siege to your Corruptions by Conviction and legal Terrors, and to shut them up, that they may no more break forth as formerly they have done, to the gross defilement of your Lives, if this be all, then know, this is no more than what a mere common Restraint may effect upon you, without any work of Sanctifying Grace upon the Heart. True Grace when it beats back Sin, it follows it and pursues it into the Heart, and there searcheth for it, and if it sees it but breath in a Thought, or stir in a Desire, presently it falls upon it and destroys it.

do you think it enough to lay close Siege to your Corruptions by Conviction and legal Terrours, and to shut them up, that they may no more break forth as formerly they have done, to the gross defilement of your Lives, if this be all, then know, this is no more than what a meer common Restraint may effect upon you, without any work of Sanctifying Grace upon the Heart. True Grace when it beats back Sin, it follows it and pursues it into the Heart, and there searcheth for it, and if it sees it but breath in a Thought, or stir in a Desire, presently it falls upon it and destroys it.

¹Thirdly, Sanctifying Grace when it keeps a Soul from sin, it always engageth the will against it, but common and restraining Grace only awakens and rouseth up the Conscience against it; the Will and the Conscience are two leading faculties of the Soul; the one commands what shall be done, and the other informs what ought to be done, and all the rest of the faculties and affections of ⟨p. 291⟩the Soul take part and side with these two; now in a Godly Man these two are at an agreement, what Conscience prompts, the Will commands; and the inferior faculties are already to execute: Sanctifying Grace, that works immediately, and specially upon the Will, and makes a mighty change there; that, whereas before Conversion Man's Will is so utterly depraved, that it can like nothing but sin, after Grace hath touched it, and mightily turned it about, it cannot now any longer give its full and free consent to the commission of any sin; if such a one sins he doth it truly and properly against his Will, as the Apostle speaks in the