The nature of saving conversion, and the way

BY putting Grace into the heart God doth destroy the power of Sin. Natural men are not able to mortify their own corruptions: Whatever improvement they make of their natural abilities and outward opportunities, they will fall short of mortifying their corruptions: They may do several things in order to the mortifying their Sins, but they cannot effect it: They may restrain themselves much from the acts of Sin, but the lopping of the tree does not kill the root▪ If they do not make provision for the flesh, yet they cannot starve it: If they bewail their Sins, and cry out against them, and call themselves madmen, that will not do. Pharaoh bewailed his Sin, Exod 9.27. And Judas his, Mat. 27.3. Yet both of them were far from mortification. Yea, if they study the danger and evil of their ⟨p. 24⟩Sins, that will not serve the turn. Such men may consider, that if their Sins don't die, their Souls must die▪ according to that, Rom. 8.13. If ye live after the flesh ye shall die, but if ye through' the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the flesh, ye shall live. They may think that Sin is dishonourable and unprofitable; that there is ingratitude, injustice and impudence in it: If we consider such things a thousand times over, that will not mortify their corruptions; but it is God that doth it, and the way wherein he doth it, is by infusing a principle of Grace into the heart. The infusion of Grace and the mortification of corruption▪ are at the same instant. Mortification of corruption don't follow after the infusion of Grace, but is contemporary with it.