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…

2. Sorrow and mourning for sin is the §2second thing wherein Compunction consists. And look as Fear plucks the soul from security in seeing no evil to come; so Sorrow takes off the present pleasure and delight in sin, in a greater measure then Fear doth. The Lord therefore having smitten the soul, or shot the arrows of fear into the soul; it therefore grows exceeding sad and heavy, thinking within it self, What good do wife or children, house or lands, peace and friends, health and rest do me? in the mean time, condemned to dye, and that eternally; it may be reprobated never to see Gods face more: the guilt and power of sin in heart and life lying still upon me? And hereupon the soul mourns in the day, and in the night, desires to go alone and weep; and there confesseth its vileness before God, all the days of vanity, and sins of ignorance, thinking, Oh what have I done! and seeks for mercy, but not one smile, nothing but clouds of anger appear; and then thinks, if this anger the fruit of my sin be so great, oh what are my sins the causes hereof! When the Angel had set out the sin of¹ ⟨p. 74⟩the Israelites in making a league with the Canaanites, and told them that they should be thorns in their sides, they sate down, ver. 4. and lift up their voice, and wept: so tis with a contrite sinner. Note narrowly that eminent place of Scripture, Isaiah 61.3. the Lord Christ is sent to appoint beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for the spirit of heaviness to them that mourn. Out of which, note these four things for the explication of this sorrow or mourning.

2. Sorrow and mourning for sinne is the §2second thing wherein Compunction consists. And look as Feare plucks the soule from security in seeing no evill to come; so Sorrow takes off the present pleasure and delight in sinne, in a greater measure then Fear doth. The Lord therefore having smitten the soule, or shot the arrowes of feare into the soule; it therefore growes exceeding sad and heavy, thinking within it selfe, What good doe wife or children, house or lands, peace and friends, health and rest doe me? in the meane time, condemned to dye, and that eternally; it may be reprobated never to see Gods face more: the guilt and power of sin in heart and life lying still upon me? And hereupon the soule mournes in the day, and in the night, desires to goe alone and weep; and there confesseth its vilenesse before God, all the dayes of vanity, and sins of ignorance, thinking, Oh what have I done! and seeks for mercy, but not one smile, nothing but clouds of anger appeare; and then thinks, if this anger the fruit of my sinne be so great, oh what are my sins the causes hereof! VVhen the Angel had set out the sin of