As to those in whom awakenings seem to have a saving issue, commonly the
first thing that appears after their legal troubles, is a conviction of
the justice of God in their condemnation, appearing in a sense of their
own exceeding sinfulness, and the vileness of all their performances. In
giving an account of this, they expressed themselves very variously;
some, that they saw God was sovereign, and might receive others and
reject them; some, that they were convinced God might justly bestow
mercy on every person in the town, in the world, and damn themselves to
all eternity; some, that they see God may justly have no regard to all
the pains they have taken, and all the prayers they have made; some,
that if they should seek, and take the utmost pains all their lives, God
might justly cast them into hell at last, because all their labors,
prayers, and tears cannot make an