Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

that you have committed such and such sins, that you have broken the Law in such a point, and such a point, and in every point; that you are guilty of fornication, or drunkenness, or theft, or covetousness, or lying, or profaneness; and it may be of all these, and more than these: The first is the conviction of the Law, the second the conviction of the Fact, then follows the third conviction which is of the State, that therefore you are under the Curse, that you are condemned, that the wrath of God hangeth over your head, and that you must be tormented for sin most horribly and eternally in Hell: It is the conviction of the dreadful punishment of Hell which God hath threatened, and unto which you are exposed for sin, that will awaken you to a sense of your lost state, when the ⟨p. 41⟩conviction is imprinted deep upon you by the Spirit; when you believe that Hell is no Fiction, but a reality, as certainly prepared for the wicked, as God is above preparing places in Heaven for his people; and you have a peep-hole (as it were) into Hell, and imagine something of the torments which the damned there do, and shall endure for such sins as you have committed; how they roll and tumble in flames of brimstone, how they are lashed by an accusing Conscience, tormented with and by the Devil, and even consumed by the wrath of a sin-revenging God; how they cry, roar and howl, how they weep and wail, and gnash their teeth, and that this must be their condition for ever; and when withal you think that you are walking upon the brink of this pit, and hastening towards the place of these flames, that Hell doth belong to you, that you are in the number of the cursed crew, some of whom have already taken up their lodging in Hell, and that you are like to come thither shortly, that you are liable every moment to drop into the burning Lake, then you will perceive that you are lost and undone.

that you have committed such and such sins, that you have broken the Law in such a point, and such a point, and in every point; that you are guilty of fornication, or drunkenness, or theft, or covetousness, or lying, or profaneness; and it may be of all these, and more than these: The first is the conviction of the Law, the second the conviction of the Fact, then follows the third conviction which is of the State, that therefore you are under the Curse, that you are condemned, that the wrath of God hangeth over your head, and that you must be tormented for sin most horribly and eternally in Hell: It is the conviction of the dreadfull punishment of Hell which God hath threatned, and unto which you are exposed for sin, that will awaken you to a sense of your lost state, when the