2. The Effects of this Conviction with their respect unto our Justification real or pretended may also be briefly considered. And whereas this Conviction is a mere work of the Law, it is not with respect unto these Effects to be considered alone, but in conjunction with, and under the conduct of that temporary Faith of the Gospel before described. And these two, Temporary Faith and Legal Conviction are the principles of all Works or Duties in Religion antecedent unto Justification, and which therefore we must deny to have in them any Causality thereof. But it is granted that many Acts and Duties both internal and external, will ensue on real Convictions. Those that are internal may be reduced unto three Heads. (1) Displicency and Sorrow that we have sinned. It is impossible that any one should be really convinced of sin in the way before declared, but that a dislike of sin, and of himself that he hath sinned, shame of it, and sorrow for it, will ensue thereon. And it is a sufficient Evidence that he is not really convinced of sin, whatever he profess, or whatever confession he make, whose mind is not so affected, Jer. 36.24. (2) Fear of punishment due to sin. For Conviction respects not only the instructive and preceptive part of the Law, whereby the Being and Nature of sin are discovered, but the Sentence and Curse of it also whereby it is judged and condemned, Gen. 4.13, 14. Wherefore, where fear of the punishment threatened doth not ensue, no person is really convinced of sin; nor hath the Law had its proper Work towards him, as it is previous unto the Administration of the Gospel. And whereas by Faith we fly from the wrath to come, where there is not a Sense and Apprehension of that wrath as due unto us, there is no Ground or Reason for our Believing. ⟨p. 103⟩(3) A desire of Deliverance from that state wherein a convinced sinner finds himself upon his Conviction, is unavoidable unto him. And its naturally the first thing that Conviction works in the minds of men, and that in various degrees of care, fear, solicitude and restlessness, which from Experience and the conduct of Scripture Light, have been explained by many, unto the great benefit of the Church, and sufficiently derided by others. (2) These internal Acts of the mind will also produce sundry external Duties which may be referred unto two Heads.
2. The Effects of this Conviction with their respect unto our Justification real or pretended may also be briefly considered. And whereas this Conviction is a meer work of the Law, it is not with respect unto these Effects to be considered alone, but in conjunction with, and under the conduct of that temporary Faith of the Gospel before described. And these two, Temporary Faith and Legal Conviction are the principles of all Works or Duties in Religion antecedenr unto Justification, and which therefore we must deny to have in them any Causality thereof. But it is granted that many Acts and Duties both internal and external, will ensue on real Convictions. Those that are internal may be reduced unto three Heads. (1) Displicency and Sorrow that we have sinned. It is impossible that any one should be really convinced of sin in the way before declared, but that a dislike of sin, and of himself that he hath sinned, shame of it, and sorrow for it, will ensue thereon. And it is a sufficient Evidence that he is not really convinced of sin, whatever he profess, or whatever confession he make, whose mind is not so affected, Jer. 36.24. (2) Fear of punishment due to sin. For Conviction respects not only the instructive and preceptive part of the Law, whereby the Being and Nature of sin are discovered, but the Sentence and Curse of it also whereby it is judged and condemned, Gen. 4.13, 14. Wherefore, where fear of the punishment threatned doth not ensue, no person is really convinced of sin; nor hath the Law had its proper Work towards him, as it is previous unto the Administration of the Gospel. And whereas by Faith we fly from the wrath to come, where there is not a Sense and Apprehension of that wrath as due unto us, there is no Ground or Reason for our Believing. ⟨p. 103⟩(3) A desire of Deliverance from that state wherein a convinced sinner finds himself upon his Conviction, is unavoidable unto him. And its naturally the first thing that Conviction works in the minds of men, and that in various degrees of care, fear, solicitude and restlessness, which from Experience and the conduct of Scripture Light, have been explained by many, unto the great benefit of the Church, and sufficiently derided by others. (2) These internal Acts of the mind will also produce sundry external Duties which may be referred unto two Heads.
