SECTION II. The Manner of Conversion Various, Yet Bearing a Great
Analogy.
I therefore proceed to give an account of the manner of persons being
wrought upon; and here there is a vast variety, perhaps as manifold as
the subjects of the operation; but yet in many things there is a great
analogy in all.-Persons are first awakened with a sense of their
miserable condition by nature, the danger they are in of perishing
eternally, and that it is of great importance to them that they speedily
escape and get into a better state. Those who before were secure and
senseless, are made sensible how much they were in the way to ruin, in
their former courses. Some are more suddenly seized with convictions-it
may be, by the news of others' conversion, or some thing they hear in
public, or in private conference-their consciences are smitten, as if
their hearts were pierced through with a dart. Others are awakened more
gradually, they begin at first to be something more thoughtful and
considerate, so as to come to a conclusion in their