How Satanmolted) men toreft ina co' feit repentance. 413 nifeflifthey recouerof'their fickn e. And therefcre feting there is fach great diflimilitude and difference in their pur- pofes,liucs and courfes it is not probable that theywill euer be like in their conuerfion,death and faluation. CHAP. XXXI. Satans tentationsmooing men to reft ina counterfeit repen- tance,anfwered. Nd fo much for theanfweringof thofe tentati- pea. 1. ons,wherebySatan laboureth tomake vsdelay That she pro- anddeferre our repentance from day to day : mifesefthe with which,ifhe cannot preuaile,both becaufe Gofpcll are wee fee the neceffitie ofre entanceveto falua_ made on .y to p re- tion,andalto plainly perceiueby. theformer reafons that de- thofe pent ferio re- laies are moll dangerous, then hee will labour in the next place toperfwade vs to content our felues with a finali mca- fure ofrepétance,orrather in truth with a counterfeit mock- repentance, whichis onely in-outward thewand neuer pear- ceth theheart; making vs beleeue, that ifwhen we fee our finnes,hauing our cònfciences conuinced out ofGodsword, wee doe in force generali termes confeffe that we are all (in- ners, and define Godafter a formali manner to haue mercie uponvs, ifweecan fome'time firaine from vs a broken figh, and be content to leaue force of our leaf+ pleafingfinnes,our repentance will bevery acceptable toGod,andfefficient for ourfaluation. And with this tentation Satan deluded' and deflroyeth innumerablemen in thefe our daies, and therefore itbehoo- ueth cuery man toprepare himfelfe for this incounter. And to this endwee are to know,thatthemercie ofGod,andme- rits of Chrif}, doe not belong vnto thofe who thus flubber otter their repentance; neither doth Chrift Iefus call vnto him fuck as flightly forrow for their fumes, and thinke the burthen ofthem light and eafie to bee borne, but fitch as labour and are heauie loaden as appeareth Matth.I t.2S. Comeuntomeallyee who arewearie andheauie loaden,and Iwill Matth.t i,ßò, cafe
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