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has been,
that they have found so much corruption remaining in their hearts. At
first, their souls seem to be all alive, their hearts are fixed, and
their affections flowing; they seem to live quite above the world, and
meet with but little difficulty in religious exercises; and they are
ready to think it will always be so. Though they are truly abased under
a sense of their vileness, by reason of former acts of sin, yet they are
not then sufficiently sensible what corruption still remains in their
hearts; and therefore are surprised when they find that they begin to be
in dull and dead frames, troubled with wandering thoughts at the time of
public and private worship, and utterly unable to keep themselves from
them. When they find themselves unaffected, while yet there is the
greatest occasion to be affected; and when they feel worldly
dispositions working in them-pride, envy, stirrings of revenge, or some
ill spirit towards some person that has injured them, as well as other
workings of indwelling sin-their hearts are almost sunk with the
disappointment; and they are ready presently
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