The truly blessed man

5. He sometimes thus prepareth Sinners for Conversion. The Spirit of God begins this work with Conviction of Sin, Joh. 16.8. In which he gives them a sight of their Sins, and an apprehension of their woeful misery by reason of them; in which he useth their own Consciences to amaze and terrify them; he holds the Sinner over Hell, and scorcheth him with the flames of it, and maketh him find himself ready to fall into the midst of them, thus to prepare him to give welcome to the offers of Christ, 1 Tim. 1.15. And the most guileful Sinners usually have deepest impressions of it.

5. He sometimes thus prepareth Sinners for Conversion. The Spirit of God begins this work with Conviction of Sin, Joh. 16.8. In which he gives them a sight of their Sins, and an apprehension of their woful misery by reason of them; in which he useth their own Consciences to amaze and terrify them; he holds the Sinner over Hell, and scorcheth him with the flames of it, and maketh him find himself ready to fall into the midst of them, thus to prepare him to give welcome to the offers of Christ, 1 Tim. 1.15. And the most guilful Sinners usually have deepest impressions of it.

6. He doth it to humble his Children for, and cure them of their Guile. These are terrible temptations, but they are to humble them, and do them good, Deut. 8 16. There usually is not a little of anger in this Dispensation, however there is love in the bottom of it. He seeth that in his Children that he liketh not, but his spirit is grieved at, and because he loveth them, he will heal them of it; and this is the course he taketh; by this they are ⟨p. 183⟩