However, therefore, some people may deny this, yet when conviction
comes, all carnal reasonings are battered down immediately, and the
poor soul begins to feel and see the fountain from which all the
polluted streams do flow. When the sinner is first awakened, he begins
to wonder, How came I to be so wicked? The Spirit of God then strikes
in, and shows that he has no good thing in him by nature; then he
sees that he is altogether gone out of the way, that he is altogether
become abominable, and the poor creature is made to lie down at the
foot of the throne of God and to acknowledge that God would be just to
damn him, just to cut him off, tho he never had committed one actual
sin in his life.

Did you ever feel and experience this, any of you--to justify God in
your damnation--to own that you are by nature children of wrath, and
that God may justly cut you off, tho you never actually had offended
Him in all your life? If you were ever truly convicted, if your hearts
were ever truly cut, if self were truly taken out of you, you would be
made to see and feel this. And if you have never felt the weight of
original sin, do not call yourselves Christians. I am verily persuaded
original sin is the greatest burden of a true convert; this ever
grieves the regenerate soul, the sanctified soul. The indwelling of
sin in the heart is the burden of a converted person; it is the burden
of a true Christian. He continually cries out: "Oh! who will deliver
me from this body of death, this indwelling corruption in my heart?"
This is that which disturbs a poor soul most. And, therefore, if you
never felt this inward corruption, if you never saw that God might
justly curse you for it, indeed, my dear friends, you may speak peace
to your hearts, but I fear, nay, I know, there is no true peace.