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…

¹The terrors, and fears, and sense of sin and death, be in themselves afflictions of soul, and of themselves drive from Christ; yet in the hand of Christ, by the power of the Spirit, they are made to lead, or rather drive unto Christ, which is able to turn mourning into joy, as well as after mourning to give joy:² and therefore tis a vain thing to think there is no need of such sorrows which drive from Christ; and that Christ can work well enough therefore without them; when as by the mighty power and riches of mercy in Christ, the Lord by wounding, nay killing his of all their carnal security and self-confidence, saves all his alive,³ and drives them to seek for life in his Son.

¹The terrours, and feares, and sense of sinne and death, be in themselves afflictions of soule, and of themselves drive from Christ; yet in the hand of Christ, by the power of the Spirit, they are made to lead, or rather drive unto Christ, which is able to turn mourning into joy, as well as after mourning to give joy:² and therefore tis a vaine thing to think there is no need of such sorrows which drive from Christ; and that Christ can work well enough therefore without them; when as by the mighty power and riches of mercy in Christ, the Lord by wounding, nay killing his of all their carnall security and self-confidence, saves all his alive,³ and drives them to seek for life in his Son.

1. 18. Rule.
2. 2Joh. 16.20
3. 3Hos. 6.1, 2, 3.