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

2. He hath been deeply concerned to escape this misery, and obtain eternal felicity. This also hath been the fruit of the operation of the Spirit in him: for, though nature it self stimulates men to enquire after an escape, upon conviction of danger, and to use means to obtain it, yet it is God only who hath discovered the way for it, and moves the soul to hearken after it; for, by the light of nature there was no discovery of this: nor can the natural man comprehend it, when it is discovered in the Gospel: but God hath touched the heart of this man with a remorse and an enquiry, What shall I do to be Saved? and made him very solicitous to obtain it: he was loth to perish, and longed that he might escape; and the ⟨p. 73⟩terrors which he read in the threatening were so great upon him, and such was his expectation of their •alling upon him, that he restlessly longed for relief.

2. He hath been deeply concerned to escape this misery, and obtain eternal felicity. This also hath been the fruit of the operation of the Spirit in him: for, though nature it self stimulates men to enquire after an escape, upon conviction of danger, and to use means to obtain it, yet it is God only who hath discovered the way for it, and moves the soul to hearken after it; for, by the light of nature there was no discovery of this: nor can the natural man comprehend it, when it is discovered in the Gospel: but God hath touched the heart of this man with a remor•e and an enquiry, What shall I do to be Saved? and made him very sollicitous to obtain it: he was loth to perish, and longed that he might escape; and the ⟨p. 73⟩terrours which he read in the threatning were so great upon him, and such was his expectation of their •alling upon him, that he restlesly longed for relief.