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…

Let not therefore any soul be discouraged, and say, I was never yet convinced, because I have not felt such a clear, real, constant light to see sin and death as others have done: consider thou, if the end of conviction be attained, which is a true sense and feeling of sin, thou hast then that measure which is most meet for thee, more then which the Lord regards not in any of his; but you that walk up and down with convinced consciences, and know your states are miserable and sinful, and that you perish if you dye in that condition, and yet have no sense nor ⟨p. 34⟩feeling; no sorrow nor affliction of spirit for those evils. I tell you the very devils are in some respect nearer the Kingdom of God then you be, who see, and feel, and tremble; woe, woe to thousands that live under convicting Ministries whom the word often hits, and the Lord by the Spirit often meets, and they hear and know their sins are many, their estates bad, and that iniquity will be there ruin, if thus they continue, yet all Gods light is without heat, and it is but the shining of it upon rocks, and cold stones; they are frozen in their dregs: be it known to you, you have not one drop of that conviction which begins salvation. Before I pass from this to the second work of compunction, let me make a word of application.

Let not therefore any soule be discouraged, and say, I was never yet convinced, because I have not felt such a cleare, reall, constant light to see sin and death as others have done: consider thou, if the end of conviction be attained, which is a true sense and feeling of sin, thou hast then that measure which is most meet for thee, more then which the Lord regards not in any of his; but you that walke up and downe with convinced consciences, and know your states are miserable and sinfull, and that you perish if you dye in that condition, and yet have no sense nor ⟨p. 34⟩feeling; no sorrow nor affliction of spirit for those evills. I tell you the very devills are in some respect nearer the Kingdome of God then you be, who see, and feele, and tremble; woe, woe to thousands that live under convicting Ministeries whom the word often hits, and the Lord by the Spirit often meets, and they heare and know their sins are many, their estates bad, and that iniquity will be there ruine, if thus they continue, yet all Gods light is without heat, and it is but the shining of it upon rocks, and cold stones; they are frozen in their dregs: be it knowne to you, you have not one drop of that conviction which begins salvation. Before I passe from this to the second work of compunction, let me make a word of application.