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…

And hence you shall observe, that word which discovered sin at first to it, it never goes out of the mind; I think saith the soul I shall never forget such a man, nor such a truth. Hence also if the soul grow light and careless at some time, and casts off the thoughts of these things, the Spirit returns again, and falls a reasoning with the soul, Why hast thou done this? what hurt hath the Lord done thee? will there never be an end? hast not thou gone on long enough in thy le•d courses against God, but that thou shouldst still add unto the heap? hast thou not wrath enough upon thee already? how soon may the Lord stop thy breath? and then thou knowest thou hadst better never to have been borne; was there ever any that thus resisted grace, that thus adventured upon the swords point? hast thou but one friend, a patient, long-suffering God, that hath left thy conscience without excuse long ago, and therefore could have cut thee off, and dost thou thus forsake him, thus abuse him? Thus the Spirit follows; and hence the soul comes to some measure of confession of sin; Oh Lord I have done exceeding wickedly; I have been worse then the horse that ⟨p. 32⟩rusheth into the battle, because it sees not death before it; but I have seen death before me in these ways, and yet go on, and still •inne, and cannot but sin: Behold me, Lord, for I am very vile. When thus the Spirit hath let into the soul a clear, real, constant light, to see sin and death, now there is a thorough conviction.

And hence you shall observe, that word which discovered sin at first to it, it never goes out of the mind; I think saith the soule I shall never forget such a man, nor such a truth. Hence also if the soule grow light and carelesse at some time, and casts off the thoughts of these things, the Spirit returnes againe, and falls a reasoning with the soule, Why hast thou done this? what hurt hath the Lord done thee? will there never be an end? hast not thou gone on long enough in thy le•d courses against God, but that thou shouldst still adde unto the heap? hast thou not wrath enough upon thee already? how soone may the Lord stop thy breath? and then thou knowest thou hadst better never to have beene borne; was there ever any that thus resisted grace, that thus adventured upon the swords point? hast thou but one friend, a patient, long-suffering God, that hath left thy conscience without excuse long agoe, and therefore could have cut thee off, and dost thou thus forsake him, thus abuse him? Thus the Spirit followes; and hence the soule comes to some measure of confession of sinne; Oh Lord I have done exceeding wickedly; I have been worse then the horse that