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…

SECT. III. The second Act of Christs power, in working Compunction or sense of sin.

Compunction pricking at the heart or sense and feeling of sin, is different from conviction of sin; the latter is the work of the understanding, and seated in that principally; the other is in the affections and will, and seated therein principally: a man may have sight of sin, without sorrow and sense of it; Dan 5.22. with 20.21. James 1.24. Rom. 2.20, 21. Yet that conviction which the Spirit works in the Elect is ever accompanied with compunction, first or last. For the better unfolding of this point, let me open these four things to you.

COmpunction pricking at the heart or sense and feeling of sin, is different from conviction of sin; the latter is the work of the understanding, and seated in that principally; the other is in the affections and will, and seated therein principally: a man may have sight of sin, without sorrow and sense of it; Dan 5.22. with 20.21. Iames 1.24. Rom. 2.20, 21. Yet that conviction which the Spirit workes in the Elect is ever accompanied with compunction, first or last. For the better unfolding of this point, let me open these foure things to you.

1. That compunction or sense of sin, immediately follows conviction of sin in the day of Christs power. 2. The necessity of this work to succeed the other. 3. Wherein it consists. 4. The measure of it in all the Elect.