8 DireElionsfirgetting and fceepiìzg fins in the rime of your unregeneracy, which thofe ufually are guilty of who are called to fo deep a de- greeof furrow ; you fbould rather be thankfull that your wound was not deeper, then troubled that the lurecolt you not dearer. Look well whether the Cure he wrought in the change of your heart and life from the world to God by ChriR, and then you necd not be troubled that it was wrought fo 4. Were you not acquaintedwith the evil offin, and danger and mifery of (inners in your very Child- hood : and alfo ofthe neceflity ofa Saviour , and that t hrift died to fave all finners that will believe and Repent ? and bath not this faftened on your beart,& been working in you bydegrees ever fined ? If it be fo, then you cannot expect that you (hou!d have fuchdeep terrors as thofe that never hear of fin and Chrift till the news corne upon them fud- denly in the ripenefs of their fin. There is a great deal of difference betwixt the Converfion of a Jew or any other Infidel, who is brought on the fudden to know the doctrine of Sin, Mifery and Salvation by Chrill ; and the Converfionof a Profeffor of the Chriilian Religion, who hathknown this doctrine in force fort from his Childhood,andwho bath a found Religion, though he be not found in his Religion , and fo needs not a Converfion to a found faith , but only to a foundnefs in the faith. The fuddennefs,of the News muff needs make thofe Violent Commo- tions d Changes in the one, which cannot ordina- rily be expected in the other who is acquainted fo early with the truth, and by Itch degrees. 5. but fimpofe youheard nothing of Sin and Mifery, and a Redeemer in your Childhood, or at Leila underftood it
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