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…

This is the third particular to be opened;¹ in general it is, whereby the soul is affected with sin, and made sensible of sin; but more particularly, compunction is nothing else but the pricking of the heart, or the wounding of the soul with such fear and sorrow for sin and misery, as severs the soul from sin, and from going on toward its eternal misery: so that it consists in three things.

This is the third particular to be opened;¹ in generall it is, whereby the soule is affected with sin, and made sensible of sin; but more particularly, compunction is nothing else but the pricking of the heart, or the wounding of the soule with such feare and sorrow for sin and misery, as severs the soule from sin, and from going on toward its eternall misery: so that it consists in three things.

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1. Fear. 2. Sorrow. 3. Separation from sin.

1. Feare. 2. Sorrow. 3. Separation from sin.

The Lord Jesus, when he comes to rescue his elect, look as Satan held them in their misery; First, by blinding their eyes from seeing of it; Secondly, by hardening their hearts from feeling of it: So the Lord Jesus having cut asunder the first cord of Satan by conviction, breaks asunder the second by compunction, and causing the soul to feel and be affcted with its misery; and as the whole soul is unaffected before he comes, so he makes the whole soul sensible when he comes, and therefore he sills the conscience with fear, and the heart with sorrow, and mourning, so as now the will of sin is broken, which was hardened before these fears and sorrows seized upon it. Let me open these particularly, that you may taste and try the