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…

That therefore 1. there must be some sense of misery, before the application of the remedy.

2. That this compunction or sense of misery is wrought by the Spirit of Christ, not the power of man to prepare himself thereby for further grace.

3. That these terrors and sorrows in the elect do virtually differ from those in the reprobate, the one driving the soul to Christ, the other not; these are agreed on all hands. The question only is, Whether there is this farther stroke of severing the soul from sin, conjoined with the terrors and sorrows in the elect before their closing with Christ, which is not in the reprobate; or in one word, whether there is not a special work of the Spirit, turning (at least in order of nature) the soul from sin, before the soul returns by faith unto Christ. For the affirmative I leave these several Considerations.

3. That these terrours and sorrows in the elect doe virtually differ from those in the reprobate, the one driving the soul to Christ, the other not; these are agreed on all hands. The question onely is, Whether there is this farther stroke of severing the soule from sin, conjoyned with the terrours and sorrowes in the elect before their closing with Christ, which is not in the reprobate; or in one word, whether there is not a speciall work of the Spirit, turning (at least in order of nature) the soule from sin, before the soule returns by faith unto Christ. For the affirmative I leave these severall Considerations.