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…

we shall seldom meet with one broken with sin, but how few are broken from sin also? and hence it is many a tall Cedar that were set down in the Table-Book for converted men, once much humbled, and now comforted; stay but a few years, you shall see more dangerous sins of a second growth; one turns drunkard, another covetous, another proud, another a Sectary, another a very dry leaf, a very formalist; another full of humorous opinions, another laden with scandalous lusts: woe to you that lament not now; for you shall mourn. Dost thou think that Christ should ever wipe off thy tears that sheddest none at all? dost thou ⟨p. 119⟩think to reap in joy, that sowest not with these showers? verily God will make his word good, Prov. 29.1. He that hardens his own heart, shall perish suddenly; hear this you secure sorrowless sinners, if ever Gods hand be stretched out suddenly against thee, in blasting thy estate, snatching away thy children, the wife of thy bosom, the husband of thy delight; in staining thy name, vexing thee with debts and crosses, short and sore, or lingering sicknesses; know that all this comes upon thee for a hard heart: but oh mourn for it now you parents, children, servants, the tokens of death are upon you; desire the Lord to break your hearts for you: lye under Gods hammer, be not above the word, and suffer the Lord to take away that which grieves him most, even thy stony heart; because it grieves thee least: meditate much of thy woeful condition, chew that bitter pill; remember death and rotting in the grave, that many are now in hell for thy sins, that Christ must dye, or thou dye for the least sin; remember how patient and long suffering the Lord hath bin to thee, and how long he hath groaned under thy burden, that it may be, though he would, yet he cannot bear thy load long; let these things be mused on, that thy heart may be at last sorrowful before it be too late. But oh the sad estate of many with us, ⟨p. 120⟩that can mourn for any evil, except it be for the greatest, sin and death, and wrath that lye upon them.

wee shall seldome meet with one broken with sin, but how few are broken from sinne also? and hence it is many a tall Cedar that were set downe in the Table-Book for converted men, once much humbled, and now comforted; stay but a few yeares, you shall see more dangerous sins of a second growth; one turnes drunkard, another covetous, another proud, another a Sectary, another a very dry leafe, a very formalist; another full of humerous opinions, another laden with scandalous lusts: woe to you that lament not now; for you shall mourne. Dost thou think that Christ should ever wipe off thy teares that sheddest none at all? dost thou