Human nature in its fourfold state ... In several practical discourses

2. He is enlightened in the knowledge of sin. He hath other thoughts of it, than he was wont to have. Formerly his sight could not pierce through' the cover Satan laid over it: but now the Spirit of God strips it before him, wipes off the paint and fairding; and he sees it in its native colours, as the worst of evils: exceeding sinful, Rom. vii. 12. O what deformed monsters do formerly beloved lusts appear! were they right eyes, he would pluck them out: were they right hands, he would consent to their cutting off. He sees how offensive sin is to God, how destructive it is to the soul; and calls himself fool, for fighting so long against the Lord, and harbouring that destroyer as a bosom friend.

2. He is enlightned in the knowledge of sin. He hath other thoughts of it, than he was wont to have. Formerly his sight could not pierce thro' the cover Satan laid over it: but now the Spirit of God strips it before him, wipes off the paint and fairding; and he sees it in its native colours, as the worst of evils: exceeding sinful, Rom. vii. 12. O what deformed monsters do formerly beloved lusts appear! were they right eyes, he would pluck them out: were they right hands, he would consent to their cutting off. He sees how offensive sin is to God, how destructive it is to the soul; and calls himself fool, for fighting so long against the Lord, and harbouring that destroyer as a bosom friend.

3. He is instructed in the knowledge of himself. Regenerating grace causeth the prodigal to come to himself, Luke xv 17. and makes men full of eyes within, knowing every one the p•••e of his own heart. The mind being savingly enlightened, the man sees how desperately corrupt his nature is; what enmity against God and his holy law has long lodged there: so that his soul loathes itself. No open sepulchre, no puddle, so vile and loathsome in his eyes as himself, Ezek. xxxvi 31. Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and shall loth yourselves in your own sight He is no worse than he was before: but the sun is shining: and so these pollutions are seen, which he could not discern, when there was no dawning in him: as the word is,