The truly blessed man

2. The burdened Conscience is now driven to seek ease by confession of the sin from which its trouble proceeds. And this a natural Conscience doth more easily put men upon▪ Pharaoh once and again is driven so far, as to confess he had Sinned in refusing to let the people of God go. And men must be grown to a prodigious hardness of heart, if they suppress the confession of a Sin so circumstanced.

3. When the Spirit of God designs the man saving good. This Conviction is but an introduction to farther discoveries; he will show the man to himself in his true colours before he hath done with him; by this he opens the door, and leads the man into the chambers of his heart, and calls him to consider his ways, Hag. 1.5. And this is to bring him to a sight and sense of all his sins, in order to the drawing out a full confession of them all: it is then our duty not to rest at one, but to trace it up as far as we can. And here,

1. There are often a great many sins that attend the consummation of that one; which he ought to see distinctly, and confess severally. There were sins that gave occasion to the temptation; though Satan tempts, yet our corruption mostly giveth him the advantage; and that is to be lamented. David on ⟨p. 206⟩the house top suffers his eye to wander, and it is surprised. There were Sins in the entertaining of the temptation, some lust or other not guarded against, but neglected, if not indulged, and that received the sparks, and the heart took fire by it, the sin conceived in it: when Achan saw the wedge of Gold, he coveted it,