Ouranos kai tartaros= heaven and hell epitomized. The true Christian characterized. As also an…

If thou would be sanctified and saved, get knowledge, seek knowledge as silver, and search for it as for hid treasure, Prov. 2.3, 4. This is the first thing to be done; it is first in the Ministers Commission, Acts 26.18. I send thee, saith God to Paul, to open the eyes of the blind, and to turn men from darkness unto light; and this is first in the Spirits operation on the soul. It convinceth the man of his sins, John 16.10, 11. It presenteth to the understanding a catalogue of its many and bloody provocations. Imprimis, thus Guilty in Adam of high treason against Heavens Majesty, and thereby of want of original righteousness, and of a deep deadly pollution in the whole nature. Item, so many hundred ungodly actions; ⟨p. 230⟩so many thousand unholy and idle expressions; so many millions of evil thoughts and suggestions: Item. so many omissions, and so many commissions: Item. so much precious time mis-spent, a moment of which cannot be recalled or purchased with the revenues of the world: Item, so many talents of health, strength, food raiment, esteem, riches, and the like misemployed: Item. so many Sacraments, Sabbaths, seasons of grace mis-improved: Item. so much uncorrigiblenesse under afflictions, so much unprofitableness under mercies: Thus the Spirit enlighteneth the sinners mind to see his sins with their circumstances, and black aggravations; as also what is like to be the fruit and effect of sin, even nothing less than suffering everlasting perdition from the presence of the Lord. It may be the Spirit may cause him, as it were, to see the smoke that ascendeth from the bottomless pit, to smell the scent of that infernal brimstone, and fire; to hear the roarings and howlings of the damned; nay possibly to feel a very hell in his own conscience. The Spirit indeed is a free Agent, and worketh in what manner and measure he pleaseth: But this is certain, he convinceth ⟨p. 231⟩all of their sins and miseries; conviction doth go before conversion. The Physician of souls will heal none, but such as know both their distemper and their danger, and thereby how infinitely they are obliged to him for their cure; As in the first creation one of the first thing God made was light; so in the forming the new creature illumination is before sanctification, Every one is able to say in Christ as he in the Gospel, This I know, whereas I was blind, now I see,