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…

Do not think the Lord works compunction in all the Elect in the same circumstantial work of the Spirit,¹ but only in the same substantial work: the Lord works a true sense of sin for the substance and truth of it, yet there are many circumstantial works, like so many enlargements and comments upon one and the same Text. Ex. gratia. The same sin that affects Paul, it may be doth not affect Lydia or Apollos. The same notions for the aggravation of sin in one, do not come into the mind of the other; the same complaints, and prayers, and turnings of spirit in the one, may not be in the same circumstances, and with the like effects as in the other, and yet both of them feel sin, and ⟨p. 52⟩therefore complain; they both feel sin, yet by means of various apprehensions and aggravations. This I speak, because you may the better understand the meaning of Gods servants i• opening the work of humiliation. You may hear them say, the soul doth this, and thinks that, and speaks another thing; it may be every one do not so think in the same individual circumstances, and therefore are to be understood as producing only exemplum in re simile, something like this or for the substance of this is there wrought.

Doe not think the Lord works compunction in all the Elect in the same circumstantiall work of the Spirit,¹ but onely in the same substantiall work: the Lord works a true sense of sin for the substance and truth of it, yet there are many circumstantiall works, like so many inlargements and comments upon one and the same Text. Ex. gratia. The same sin that affects Paul, it may be doth not affect Lydia or Apollos. The same notions for the aggravation of sinne in one, doe not come into the mind of the other; the same complaints, and prayers, and turnings of spirit in the one, may not be in the same circumstances, and with the like effects as in the other, and yet both of them feele sin, and ⟨p. 52⟩therefore complaine; they both feele sin, yet by means of various apprehensions and aggravations. This I speak, because you may the better understand the meaning of Gods servants i opening the work of humiliation. You may heare them say, the soule doth this, and thinks that, and speaks another thing; it may be every one doe not so think in the same individuall circumstances, and therefore are to be understood as producing onely exemplum in re simili, something like this or for the substance of this is there wrought.