!Compare t here .Scriptures to,,''e- ' t8lciei.i, 6 . ll f . zei h 3.5. If a. s; 9. Ifa. 42. 2i. , Heb. 6. 6. Caligula ttfed to ay of hinder, that he loved no- thing better in hirnfelf, than that e could not be afhanhd, & c,, Aug. confef. lib, 2.,cap.3,, A. Box ofpreclotis wament : Or that he cannot be 'forty for fin ; and without all peradventure this is in a meafure true godly Ciofpel-fort ow for fin, &c. 1 But now wicked men confefs their fins, but they never grieve for their fins ; they confefs their fins, but they are not , afhamed of their fins; they confefs their fins, but they can't blufh for their fins. Though men of gocd names, and of good natures, would be afhamecl to be found doing of bale things, things that are below them, that are not worthy of them, yeti the generality of; finners are fo bold and bale, fo ignorant, arrogant and impudent, fo frontlefs and gracelefs, &c. that they are no wayes afharned, no not of thofe very fins that has put Chrift to an open fliame ; yea, that has put the Sun and Moon to a blufh. Moll finners in thofe dam have brows of brafs, and whores foreheads that cannot blufh ; they are fo far from being afhamed of their fins, that they think it a shame and difgrace not to fin, not to fwear, and whore, and curie, and be drunk, and prophane Sabbaths, and difpife Or- dinances; yea, there are many that are fo far from being ashamed of their abominations, that they even glory in them, like thofe in that, Phil. 3. 19. They Phew their fins as So - dorm, they make both a ,fport of acting , and a jell of con- felling their fins. Thus Auftin confefieth that it was Come- times with himfelf,before the Lord wrought upon him; I was ftricken with fuch blindnefs, as that I thought it a shame unto me to be lefs vile and wicked, than my companions whom I heard boaft elf their leudnefs, and glory fo much the more, by how much they were the more filthy; therefore(faith he)lefl I should be of no account, I was the more vicious ; and when I could not otherwife match others, I would feign that I had done thofe things which I never did,lefl I thould feem fo much the more abjeot, by how much I was the more innocent; and -10 much the more vile, by how much I was the more chaft. But for a clofe reinen.er this, The true penitent knows, that the more God has been difpleafed with the bladnefs of fin, the better he will be pleafed with the blufhing of the finner ;,,and therefore he can't but blufh when either he looks upon fin _within him, or God above him. But, Seventh'
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