A warning to back-sliders, or, A discovery for the recovery of fallen ones delivered…

It will never be so well as it was at first, till we come to our first Husband; It was better then, then now.

Another experience as evidential as the former, you have from the Prodigal, Luk. 15. who, saith the text, When he came to himself, (Mark that, when he came to himself, the man was not himself before; sin besots men, it darkens and dulls their understandings, that a man is not a man, but is beside himself) But when he came to himself, he quickly went from himself unto his father; when he called to mind what he once had in his fathers house, when he remembered his former state, and compared his past with his present condition, now, saith he, I will arise and go to my father; when he remembered from whence he was fallen, he repented, &c.

Another experience as evidential as the former, you have from the Prodigal, Luk. 15. who, saith the text, When he came to himself, (Marke that, when he came to himself, the man was not himself before; sin besots men, it darkens and dulls their understandings, that a man is not a man, but is beside himself) But when he came to himself, he quickly went from himself unto his father; when he called to minde what he once had in his fathers house, when he remembred his former state, and compar'd his past with his present condition, now, saith he, I will arise and go to my father; when he remembered from whence he was fallen, he repented, &c.

A third, and no less famous an experience, ⟨p. 15⟩you have of this in Psal. 119.59