The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

1. That these Fears are not merely natural (as those Rom. 2.15.) arising from natural conscience only, which only accuse of sin, but never affect; but they are supernatural, they are arrows shot into the conscience by the arm of the Spirit; so dreadful that no word nor meditation of death and eternity can beget such fears, but creates them.

1. That these Fears are not meerly naturall (as those Rom. 2.15.) arising from naturall conscience only, which only accuse of sinne, but never affect; but they are supernaturall, they are arrowes shot into the conscience by the arme of the Spirit; so dreadfull that no word nor meditation of death and eternity can beget such feares, but creates them.

2. Hence it follows, that they are clear fears, (for the Spirits work is ever clear before he leaves it, Eph. 5.13.) they are not blind confused fears, and suspicious and sad conjectures, whereby many a man is afraid and much afraid and affrighted like men in a dream, that think they are in hell, yet cannot tell what that evil is which they fear; but they are clear fears whereby they distinctly know and see that they are miserable, and what that misery is.

2. Hence it followes, that they are cleare feares, (for the Spirits work is ever cleare before he leaves it, Eph. 5.13.) they are not blind confused feares, and suspitious and sad conjectures, whereby many a man is afraid and much afraid and affrighted like men in a dreame, that thinke they are in hell, yet cannot tell what that evill is which they feare; but they are cleare feares whereby they distinctly know and see that they are miserable, and what that misery is.