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Mottues
toperfwade
vi
to haf?en
our
repentance.
not
then
the Lärdsloue,patience,and
long
fuffering,
who
is
our friend offriends, make
vs
to
take
occafion
of
offending
and difplcafing
him;
but
rather
let
the con(ìderation
there-
of
bee
a
forcible andftrong motiue
to
mooue-vs
to repen-
tance.
Rom.
2
4
Lally,
though
the
Lord
bee
fo
gracious
and
mercifull,
4
Set
.
that
he
is
ready
to
receiue
vs
into
his
loue and
fauour,
when
-
The
left
mo
foeuer
wee vnfainedly
repent,
and truely turne vnto
him;
tiue,hecaufe
yet forafinuch
as
hee
extendeth his
mercie
to
thofe
onely
repentance in
who
are
truely
penitent,
and feeing
the
repentance
of
the
:introf
fi
I
nes
tnofl
is
faired
and hypocriticall, which then
onely
begin-
is
vn
neth when
death
or fome extreame
danger approcheth, this
fhould
bee
a
firong motiue
toperfwade
vs
to
repent and
turne vnto
the
Lúrd
when wee
are
in our
perfect&
health,
ftreng.th and profperiti e,
that
fo
wee mayhaue
affurance
that
our
conuerfiotiis
fincere
and
vnfained, and
not
forcedor
°dif
Exod.9.2y.
-
feitbied.
Wee
know
that
Pharaoh himfelfe
when
hee was
& 1p,1Ó.17,
vexed
with Gods
fearefull
plagues, could
fay
I
have
finned,
and
promife
aìnendment. And
Saul,whenGod
threatned
to
cut him
off;
and
to
take the
kingdome
from him,could
ac-
i.5ala.i
1,14..
knowledge
his wickedneffe, and
pretenda
defire
toworfhip
ss-
the
Lord.
And
lero6oanr
could
fhew more contrition for
the
loffe
ofhis
hand,then
hey
euer (hewed
forthe
loffe
ofhis
I.King.13.6,
foule.
And wicked
e
4cha6
when
hee
heard heauie
iudge-
&xi.b].
ments denounced
again(+
him,
could
outwardly
humble
himfelfe
put
on
fackcloath,fa(
+,and
goe demurely.And
who
may
not
obferue
in his
-ovine
experience,
how
many
there
are,
who
in
the time
of
their
fickneflè
make
goodly
fhewes
ofrepentance,prornifrug golden mountaines;and
vowing,
if
they recover,
that
they
will leade
anew
life, forfaking
their
finnes,
and
indeuouring to
ferue
the Lord
in
the
duties
of
holineffe: and righteoufneffe;
and yet the
fame men
being
reflored to their health, with
the dogge
returne
to their
vo-
mit,and
with the
fow
to
wallow againe
in
the
frlthie puddle
offinne,becomnming
>as
prophane, wicked, irreligious,
and
negligentin
all
duties
of
Chriflianitie,
as
euer
they
were?
which
isa
rnofi
vndoubted
Egne
that their
repentance
was
but
fainedand?di(fenibled,and
that
they were moued there-
unto