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What things
are required
in
true
repentance.
419
-
repentance,
we
can
neuer haue any affitrance
of
any
of
the
promifes
afthe
Gofpell.
And
therefore
it
behooueth
vs
as
we
tender our
faluati-
§sea,
5.
on,that
we
labour after
the
fight
and
fenfe
-
of
our
fames,
The
wanes
that
with
good
Iofias
our
hearts melt
within
vs,
and euen
re-
vvhereby
vve
folue themfelues
into
the teares
of
vnfained repentance
;
may
attaine
that
wee
euen
rent
ourhearts
with.true compun&ion,
as
the
to
a
true
¡gFit
Prophet exhorteth,
Ioel.z.
i andthat
with the
'ewes
wee
lines.
P
3
z,
Kzng.x.,
haue
our
hearts
prickt within
vs,
when
we come
to
the fight
19.
ofour
finnes;
and
all
this
-not
fo much
in
regard
of
the pu-
Aa.z.
;7_n
nifhnn.ent
we
haue deferued,-as
that
by
our
fumes
wee haue
difpleafed our
good
Godand
gratious father,
and
haue cau-
fed
our
Sauiour
Chrifl
who
is
the Lorsl,eflife,
to
be
put
to
a
Zachor
to,.
íhamefull and
painefulI
death.
And that
wee
may attaine .veto this
fenfe
and
feeling
of
r.. deanes,
our
f
noes,
there are
diners meanes
to
be vfed
effeóuall
¡for
prayers.
this
purpofe;
as ñrf}
we are
to
haue
our
recourfe
vnto
God
by
earneft
and feruent prayer, defiring and
intreating that
he
will anoint.
the blind,
eyes
of
our-
vnderf}andings,
with
the pretious
eye
falue
ofhis
holie
fpirit,that
wee
may
fee
our
Reuel.
;.1.7..
t,
ownewretchédneffe,
miferie,
pouertie, blindnelfe
and-
na
-'8
kedneffe,
and that hee
will,
foften our hard
hearts, with the
oyle
of
his_grace,
and fo
bea.te
thefe
flank
.rocker,
that out
of
them
may.
flow
plentifulLüreames
of
,vnfained;-repen-
tance.
Secondly, we
are
often
times
to
fet the law
as
a
glaffe
be-
2.
Medtatin-
fore.vs,that
fo
we may
fee
our deformities, and
to
examine
inibe
lazuv.,
our.li'ues
thereby
asit
were
by
a rule
or
fquare,
that
fo
wee
may
knowboth how
often-we haue
erred.and tranfgreffed
it
in the
time pafl,
and
how, vnable wee are
to
performe
it
for
the time
to
come in
that
exat
manner which
God
requi.
reth. For as
the deformities
and.fpots in
The
face
though
they be great and.manie,,cannotbe difcerned
ofthofe who
haue them,
vnleffe
they looke
themfelues
in
a
glaffe,
and.
though
euerie
one
els
doth.plainely
fee
them, yet the
party'
himfelfe
doth
leaf+
ofall
perceiue them
:
fo
though
our
fpiri_
tuall defotmitier
.
and
ñlthie
fpots
of
finne, appeare
moil
s;lie.ánd.odiousintineeyesQf
sod.and:men,fb,
that.
euer1
Ee
-4ng