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…

is there not a farther end that by this light the heart might be deeply affected with sin? if any say that the end of conviction is to drive the soul to Christ, I grant that is the remote and last end of it, but the next end is compunction. For if the understanding be convinced of misery, and the heart remain hard, the mind may see indeed that righteousness and life only is to be had in Christ, yet the heart remaining hard, the will and affections ⟨p. 48⟩will never stir toward Christ, its impossible a hard heart remaining such wholly unaffected with sin or misery, should be truly affected with Jesus Christ; but of this more hereafter.

is there not a farther end that by this light the heart might be deeply affected with sinne? if any say that the end of conviction is to drive the soule to Christ, I grant that is the remote and last end of it, but the next end is compunction. For if the understanding be convinced of misery, and the heart remain hard, the mind may see indeed that righteousnesse and life only is to be had in Christ, yet the heart remaining hard, the wil and affections ⟨p. 48⟩will never stir toward Christ, its impossible a hard heart remaining such wholly unaffe•ted with sin or misery, should be truly affected with Jesus Christ; but of this more hereafter.

What necessity is there of this compunction, to succeed conviction?

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