The saints guide, in three treatises

It is true that truth is powerful, and will prevail, and if the Spirit of God set it home upon the Conscience, ⟨p. 99⟩there is no heart so hard, but it will soften, no heart so proud but it will humble, & lay it lower then dust as low as the nethermost hell in its own apprehension, and when God sends his truth to subdue a corrupt heart, he doth not stand to ask the sinner whether he be willing or no, to submit to the word of truth, to put his shoulders under the Government of Christ, for it is natural to us since the fall of Adam, to run farther, and farther from God. Cain when he had slain his righteous brother, and was banished from God, it is said that he dwelt in the Land of Nod, which signifieth wandering, for when he had once lost fellowship, and communion with God, ⟨p. 100⟩in whom alone soul satisfying rest is to be found, all the world was not sufficiently to satisfy his immortal soul: as it was with him, so it is with us all by Nature, therefore the Lord is fain, not only to vouchsafe unto us means and helps, and heavenly directions, to do our souls good, but likewise to conquer our wills to submit thereunto, even to force us, to receive direction, how our souls may be happy for ever.

It is true that truth is powerfull, and will prevail, and if the Spirit of God set it home upon the Conscience, ⟨p. 99⟩there is no heart so hard, but it will soften, no heart so proud but it will humble, & lay it lower then dust as low as the nethermost hell in its own apprehension, and when God sends his truth to subdue a corrupt heart, he doth not stand to aske the sinner whether he be willing or no, to submit to the word of truth, to put his shouldiers under the Government of Christ, for it is naturall to us since the fall of Adam, to run farther, and farther from God. Cain when he had slain his righteous brother, and was banished from God, it is said that hee dwelt in the Land of Nod, which signifieth wandring, for when he had once lost fellowship, and communion with God, ⟨p. 100⟩in whom alone soule satisfiing rest is to be found, all the world was not sufficiently to satisfie his immortall soule: as it was with him, so it is with us all by Nature, therefore the Lord is faine, not onely to vouchsafe unto us meanes and helpes, and heavenly directions, to do our souls good, but likewise to conquer our wills to submit thereunto, even to force us, to receive dirrection, how our soules may be happy for ever.