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…

This may show us the great mistake of two sorts:¹

This may shew us the great mistake of two sorts:¹

1. 1Use 1.Vse 1.

1. Such as think there is no necessity of ⟨p. 94⟩any sense of misery before the application of the remedy or their closing with Christ; because say they, where there is sense there is life; (all sense and feeling arising from life) and where there is life, there is Christ already. And hence it is that they would not have the Law first preached in these days, but the Gospel; the other is to go round about the bush.

1. Such as think there is no necessity of ⟨p. 94⟩any sense of misery before the application of the remedy or their closing with Christ; because say they, where there is sense there is life; (all sense and feeling arising from life) and where there is life, there is Christ already. And hence it is that they would not have the Law first preached in these dayes, but the Gospell; the other is to goe round about the bush.

I answer, that for my own part this doctrine (of seeing and feeling our misery before the remedy) is so universally received by all solid Divines both at home and abroad, that I meet with; and the contrary opinion so cross to the holy Scriptures, and general experience of the Saints, and the preaching of the other so abundantly sealed to be Gods own way by his rich blessings on the labours of his servants faithful to him herein; that were it not for the sake of some weak and mis-led, I should not dare to question it; the Lord himself so expressly speaking, that he came not to call the righteous, but on the contrary only to heal the sick, who know and feel their sickness chiefly by the Law,