The sound believer. A treatise of evangelical conversion. Discovering the work of Christ's spirit,…

Are we troubled with too many wounded Consciences in these Times, that we are so solicitous of Coining new Principles of Peace? What is every Man by Nature, but a Kind of an infinite Evil? All the sins that fill Earth and Hell, are in every one Man's Heart, for sin in Men is endless; and canst not thou endure to be cast down? Nothing is so vile as Christ to a Man not humbled, and can you easily prize him, and taste him, without any casting down?

2. Such as think there is a Necessity of Sense of Misery by the Work of the Law, before Christ can be received; but they think there is no such Feeling of Misery, as hath been mentioned; but that it is common to the Reprobate as to the Elect, and consequently, that in sense of sin there is no such special Work of the Spirit as separates the Soul from sin before it comes unto Christ, but that this is done after the Soul is in Christ by Faith, viz. in Sanctification, being first justified by Faith.

This is the Judgment of many holy and learned; and therefore so long as there is no Disagreement in the Substance of this Doctrine, it should not trouble us; only let it be considered, whether what is said, is not the Truth of Christ; and if it be, let us not cast it aside. The Jewish Rabbins have a Speech at this Day very frequent in their Writings, Non est in leg• unica literula aqua non magni suspensi sunt montes: It is much more true of every Truth; and if I much mistake not, much depends upon the right Understanding of this Point.