"There is nothing more certain, that that there are two Kinds of Conviction, one flowing from a sudden and violent breaking-in of Truth, when the Understanding is as it were taken by Storm, and a Man's whole System of Thinking is changed in an Instant: the other a gradual, gentle, and slow stealing-in of Light, when the Judgment is as it were carried Inch by Inch, which however ends like the former, in an absolute Revolution."
A discourse on Providence: being an essay to prove that this doctrine, as it is delivered in the Gospel, is a demonstration of the divine original of the Christian dispensation
A discourse on Providence: being an essay to prove that this doctrine, as it is delivered in the Gospel, is a demonstration of the divine original of the Christian dispensation. The third edition London, 1748. Eighteenth Century Collections Online. Gale Group. http://galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/ECCO