Spiritual desertions discovered and remedied. Being the substance of divers sermons preached for the…

4. And the deeper apprehension that he hath of his misery hereby, the more oppressed must he needs be. It is certain that according as men apprehend the good or evil they are concerned in, they will be proportionably affected with it; for the affections are moved by the will, according to the resentment which it hath of the good or evil which are the objects of it These things are accommodated to the rational powers which God hath put into man, and are answerably exerted by the Children of God, in whom grace doth not destroy but rectify nature. Here therefore let us take a particular account of them, as they refer to the matter before us, in the following Conclusions.

1. A Child of God hath been made apprehensive of the fearful misery under which he was by sin. This is wrought in the Heart and Conscience▪ by the Spirit of God, in order to the making of the Children of men the Children of God; and the remembrance of it abides with them as long as they live. Fallen man is in a miserable condition, having lost his right to all good, and being fallen under a curse that involves all ⟨p. 72⟩infelicities in it. The natural man doth not resent this of himself; […] God, when he comes to convert a sinner, reveals it to him, and makes him to know it and feel it, and that both temporal and spiritual: hence that, Jer. 2.19. Know and see that it is an evil thing and bitter: and this belongs to the work of the Spirit, Joh. 16.8. He shall convince the world of sin.

1. A Child of God hath been made apprehensive of the fearful misery under which he was by sin. This is wrought in the Heart and Conscience▪ by the Spirit of God, in order to the making of the Children of men the Children of God; and the remembrance of it abides with them as long as they live. Fallen man is in a miserable condition, having lost his right to all good, and being fallen under a curse that involves all