. 1®SoWemaybe 4firuredthat ourrepentance itwfanied.5 I;. pentance vnleffe they iffue fromabrokenheart and contrite fpirit, fromatrue hatredof finne, and from hartie forrow conceiuedbecaufe wee haue offendedour gratious God. On the other fide,ifwee be in fnceritieofheart, truely forrie for -our fumes in there refpeeis, becaufe wehate our ,finnes and Ioue God,andare difpleafedwith our feinesbecaufe wehaue difpleafedour gratious father, indeuouring to forfake our fumes and to leade a new life in holineffe andrighteouf:effe, then though wee can feldome or neuer flied teares, which is the cafeofforne ofGodsdeareíl children, yet our repentance is trueandvnfained ; for in this a6tion the broken and con- tritehart ismore tobe refpeó}ed then theblubredeyes, how- foeucr molt commonly they goe together. And fo much concerning the figues oftrue repentance, which ifafterdue examinationwee can find in our felues,we maybee allured that we are truely penitent ; nay I will fay more,for the comfort ofall humbled fanners, if afterdiligent fearch they findnot in their owns fenfe and feeling thefe fignes of true repentancein themat al,or at leaf} in veryfmal meafine, yet if they earnef}ly define and fincerely indeuour toaminevnto true repentance, vfng thofe goodmeanes or- dainedofGodfor this pu,pofe, they may affure themfelues that they haue truely repented in the fight of God,whoac- cepteth ofthewill for the deed, and ofthe affe&ion for the ac`}ion, as before I haue fhewed. And thus may we repell the tentationofSatan,andreceiue §. See,6. comfort vnto our owne foules,when hee laboureth to per- That theagu- (wade vs that our repentance is not true and vnfained but ranceofthe re- falfeand hypocritical!. But ifthe tempter cannot thus pre- de on oh not uaile, in the nextplace hee will tell vs that our repentance on:be iignity though ifit be true, yet it is not fufficient,neither is there any ofoar repen- proportion betweene our final! repentance and our great tanm hones, asGods iuf}ice doth require. Towhich we mull an- £were, that the remiflìon- of our finnes and reconciliation with God, dependeth not vpon thedignitie or quantitie of our repentance, but vpon the righteoufneffe and full fatif- fah}ion ofour Sauiour Iefus Chrifi; neither doe we repent tothe cnd that thereby wee may in whole, or in partfatisfie Z 1 -for r
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