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…

The third the elect feel at this first stroke and wound which the Spirit gives them; the anguish of sin indeed lies sore upon them,¹ but this much more. Christ is come to seek that which is lost. The sheep is lost, when First it is separated and gone from the owner; Secondly, when it knows not how to return again, unless the Shepherd find it and carry it home: so that soul is properly and truly lost, that feels it self separated and gone from God,² knowing not how to return to him again, unless the Lord come and take it upon his shoulders, and carry it in his arms; this lies heavy upon it, viz. that it is gone from God, and wholly separated ⟨p. 92⟩from all union to him, and communion with him. You may observe, John 16.9. that the Spirit convinces of sin, how? because they believe not in me. i. Because they shall see and feel themselves quite separated from me, they shall hear of my glory and riches of mercy, and that happiness which all that have me, shall and do enjoy, but they shall mourn that they have no part nor portion in these things, they shall mourn that they live without me, and that they have lived so long without me.

The third the elect feele at this first stroke and wound which the Spirit gives them; the anguish of sinne indeed lyes sore upon them,¹ but this much more. Christ is come to seek that which is lost. The sheep is lost, when First it is separated and gone from the owner; Secondly, when it knowes not how to returne againe, unlesse the Shepherd find it and carry it home: so that soule is properly and truly lost, that feeles it selfe separated and gone from God,² knowing not how to returne to him again, unlesse the Lord come and take it upon his shoulders, and carry it in his armes; this lyes heavy upon it, viz. that it is gone from God, and wholly separated ⟨p. 92⟩