Term List 1: awakening,conscience,
Term List 2: convince,emptiness,depravity
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3. Match found in: WJEO 2:157 ★
... ns, by impressing on them many external images and ideas, of a countenance frowning, a sword drawn, black clouds of vengeance, words of an awful doom pronounced, "The way of the Spirit's working, when it does [convince] men, is by enlightening natural [conscience]. The Spirit does not work by giving a testimony, but by assisting natural [conscience] to do its work. Natural [conscience] is the instrument in the hand of God, to accuse, condemn, terrify, and to urge to duty ...
5. Match found in: WJEO 2:432 ★
... right in the sight of his Judge. Which proves what I say, that holy practice under trials is the highest evidence of the sincerity of professors to their own [conscience]s. And we find that Christ from time to time took the same method to [convince] the [conscience]s of those that pretended friendship to him, and to show them what they were. This was the method he took with the rich young man (Matthew 19:16, etc.). He seemed to show a great respect to Christ; he came kneeling to him, and called h ...
6. Match found in: WJEO 4:164 ★
... tinacy of their wills, and the like. In many, God makes much use of their own experience, in the course of their [awakening]s and endeavors after saving good, to convince them of their own vile emptiness and universal [depravity]. Very often under first [awakening]s, when they are brought to reflect on the sin of their past lives, and have something of a terrifying sense of God's anger, they set themselves to walk more strictly, and confess their sins, and perform many religio ...
10. Match found in: WJEO 7:429 ★
... e power and delusion of Satan to make and take the same daily survey of his life in the time of his sickness; by means of which he spent his enfeebled spirits, cast on fuel to fire his sickness. Had not a friend of his [convince]d him of his erroneous [conscience] misleading him at that time, he had murdered his body out of [conscience] to save his soul and to preserve his grace. And do you think these were the motions of God's Spirit, which like those locusts, Revelation 9:7, R ...
30. Match found in: WJEO 25:638 ★
... d tends to [convince] or confound enemies. True religion, is a divine light in the souls of the saints; and as it shines out in the conversation before men, it tends to induce others to glorify God. There is nothing like it (as to means) to awaken the [conscience]s of men, to [convince] infidels, and to stop the mouths of gainsayers. Though men naturally hate the power of godliness; yet, when they see the fruits of it, there is a witness in their [conscience]s in its favor. "He that serveth Christ in righteousness, and peace, and joy ...
32. Match found in: WJEO 32:113 ★
... the Lord's day, which is enough to destroy all Religion; Tavern-haunting, Company-keeping, Chambering, Uncleanness, Profaneness &c. And we ought loudly to testify against 'em. And that what we do may be effectual, let us endeavour to [convince]their [conscience]s of the Evil of sin, and of these Sins. we are not to fail to warn People solemnly against the dreadful Guilt of Unthankfulness under Gods signal mercies, and of incorrigeableness under heavy & sore Judgments. Could we in wisdom do ...
41. Match found in: WJEO 47:40 ★
... re at present, yet it will not do always, it will not stand by when you come to die. The fool often in health saith, There is no God; but when he comes to die, he cannot rest in any such supposition. Then he is generally so much [convince]d in his own [conscience], that there is a God, that he is in dreadful amazement for fear of his own eternal wrath. It is folly, therefore, to flatter yourselves with any supposition now which you will not then be able to hold. If you depend on long li ...