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…

¹Oh be persuaded therefore to remember your sins past, and to consider of your ways now. All the profaneness of thy heart, and life, all the vanity of thy youth, Eccles. 11.9. all your secret sins, all your sins against light and love, checks and vows; all that time wherein thou didst nothing else but live in sin; thus Gods people have done, Ezek 6.9. thus all the elect shall do; oh consider the Lord remembers them all, and that with grief of heart against thee, because thou forgettest them, Hos. 2.7. He that numbers thy hairs, and tells the sparrows that fall, numbers much more thy sins that fall from thee; they are written down in his black book. They are not trifles, for he minds not toys; the books must be opened: oh reckon now, you have yet time to call them to mind, which it may be shall not ⟨p. 39⟩continue long; it is the Lords complaint, Jer. 8.6. of a wicked generation, that he could hear no man say, What have I done? Winnow your selves, (as the word is, Eph. 2.1.) Oh people not worthy to be beloved. I pronounce unto you from the eternal God, that ere long the Lord will search our Jerusalem with candles, he will come with a sword in his hand to search for all secure sinners in city and country, unless you awaken; he will make inquisition for blood, for oaths, for whoredoms which grow common; for all secret sins we are frozen up in; oh be willing, be but willing that the Lord should search you and convince you, now in this evening time of the day, before the night come, wherein it will be too late to say, I wish I had considered of my ways in time; of all sins, none can so hardly stand with uprightness, as a secret unwillingness to see and be convinced of sin, John 3.20.21. The helps and means for attaining hereunto are these.

¹Oh be perswaded therefore to remember your sins past, and to consider of your wayes now. All the prophanenesse of thy heart, and life, all the vanity of thy youth,