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…

As in the conversion of the soul by faith unto God, the Spirit is not only a moral agent persuading, but also a supernatural agent physically working the heart to believe, by a divine and immediate act; so in the aversion of the soul from sin, the Spirit doth affect the heart with fear and sorrow morally, but this can never take away sin, as we see in Judas and Cain, deeply affected ⟨p. 89⟩and afflicted in spirit, and yet in their sin. And therefore the Spirit puts forth its own hand physically or immediately, and his own arm brings salvation to us, by a further secret immediate stroke, turning the iron neck, cutting the iron sinews of sin, and so makes this disunion or separation. You think it easy to be willing that Christ should come and take away all your sins; I tell you, the omnipotent arm of the Lord that instructed Jeremiah in a smaller matter,¹ can only instruct you here; both these acts ever go together according to the measure mentioned; the latter cannot be without the first, the first is in vain without the latter.

As in the conversion of the soule by faith unto God, the Spirit is not onely a morall agent p••swading, but also a supernaturall agent physically working the heart to beleeve, by a divine and immediate act; so in the aversion of the soule from sinne, the Spirit doth affect the heart with feare and sorrow morally, but this can never take away sinne, as we see in Iudas and Cain, deeply affected ⟨p. 89⟩and afflicted in spirit, and yet in their sinne. And therefore the Spirit puts forth its owne hand physically or immediately, and his owne arme brings salvation to us, by a further secret immediate stroke, turning the iron neck, cutting the iron sinews of sin, and so makes this disunion or separation. You think it easie to be willing that Christ should come and take away all your sinnes; I tell you, the omnipotent arme of the Lord that instructed Ieremy in a smaller matter,¹ can onely instruct you here; both these acts ever goe together according to the measure mentioned; the latter cannot be without the first, the first is in vaine without the latter.