Now God Reproves the sinner, and sets his sins in order before him, Psal. 50.21. and makes him possess the sins of his youth, Job 13.26. God doth by the Scripture (as in a Glass) give the sinner a sight of his sinful Nature; shows him the sinfulness of his sins, Rom. 7.13. God doth by his Spirit and Word convince the sinners conscience of his Transgressions against his holy Law, and against the Gospel of his Grace. The holy Spirit, ordinarily, by the Ministry of the Word, convinceth ⟨p. 12⟩the sinner of his Original corruption; tells him, that every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed; Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death, Jam. 1.14, 15. The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6.23. The soul that sins shall dye; and also convinceth him of his Actual Transgressions; to wit, his sins of Omission, and his sins of Commission, both in doing that which God hath forbidden in his holy Word, and in not doing that which he hath commanded, or not as he commandeth it to be done. God convinceth the sinners conscience of his sinning against Light, against Checks of Conscience, and many good Motions of the holy Spirit; and shows him how he hath sinned against the mercies, patience and long-sufferings of God, and how he hath sinned under God's chastisements, corrections and righteous Judgments; and that neither the Word of God, nor his Rod, hath wrought Repentance in him, nor caused him to turn from his sinful courses.
Now God Reproves the sinner, and sets his sins in order before him, Psal. 50.21. and makes him possess the sins of his youth, Job 13.26. God doth by the Scripture (as in a Glass) give the sinner a sight of his sinful Nature; shews him the sinfulness of his sins, Rom. 7.13. God doth by his Spirit and Word convince the sinners conscience of his Transgressions against his holy Law, and against the Gospel of his Grace. The holy Spirit, ordinarily, by the Ministry of the Word, convinceth ⟨p. 12⟩the sinner of his Original corruption; tells him, that every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed; Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin, and sin when it is finished, bringeth forth death, Jam. 1.14, 15. The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6.23. The soul that sins shall dye; and also convinceth him of his Actual Transgressions; to wit, his sins of Omission, and his sins of Commission, both in doing that which God hath forbidden in his holy Word, and in not doing that which he hath commanded, or not as he commandeth it to be done. God convinceth the sinners conscience of his sinning against Light, against Checks of Conscience, and many good Motions of the holy Spirit; and shews him how he hath sinned against the mercies, patience and long-sufferings of God, and how he hath sinned under God's chastisements, corrections and righteous Judgments; and that neither the Word of God, nor his Rod, hath wrought Repentance in him, nor caused him to turn from his sinful courses.
