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How
we
maybe
a
jf
tired
that
our
reperrtavcc is
vnfamed
s
II
1
:
offer
themfelucs
unto
vs:
and
therefore bee
that
will
not
turne
wholly
vnto
God,
till
hee haue
a
cleare pafíàge
and
plaine
wayfreefrom
:all
thornie
dißrac&ions
which pull him
backe, and
-worldly
incumbrances, which like blocks
lying
before
him
hinder
him
in
his
iournie,
may
as
well refolue
to
fit
í1d1
and
-
neuer
returne unto
God
by
vnfained
repen-
tance.
The
fourth'igne oftrue
repentance
is,if
it
bee continual)
fromthe
fiffh
day
of
our conuerf
on
vnto the end
of
our
The
fourth
lines
;
for
it
is
not
fuificient
to
ferue
God
by fits,or
that
our
Oc,yo
t
l
it
religion
fhould take
vs like
a
tertian ague but
enery
other
day; it
is
not that
which
God
requireth, that
wee
fhould
di-
',tide
our time betweene
him.
and the world,or
hauing
be-
gun
in
the
fpirit
we
fhould
end
in the flefh;but after
weeare
gone
out
ofthis
Sodom
of
f
nne,
Wee
mull
got
forward in
-ouriournic ofholy obedience,
and neuer like Lôts wife
look
backe with
a
desire
to
inioy the
pleafures
thereof
againe.
We
mull to runne
this fpirituall
race
that
we may
obtaine:
now
we
know that
runners
ofa
race, as they do
not
Band
ßi11
:after
the watchword
is
giuen,but
labour with
all
'fpeed
to
set
.
foorth with
the
firß;
fo
they
doe
not
fit
downe in the middc
way,much
leffe
run one
while backward,and
another while
forward, but they
í1i11
hallen on till they
come
to the
pale
and obtaine the garland: and
fo
it behooueth
vs
to
runne
fPeedily
to
the
Lord by
vnfained repentance,and
not to de-
fill
inthis
our
race
till theend
of
our lines,
if
wee purpofe
to
-ieceiue
that
crowne
ofglorywhich
the
Lord
bath promifed
vs.
Our
life
therefore mull
be
a continuall repentance,
and
b
long
as
we
line,
fo
long
mull
we
grime
for our
firmes
pa
and
prefent,
and
thine
after newneffe
of
life,,
'and a
greater
meafure
offanòlification.
The lall
figne
of
vnfained
and true repentance
is,ifit
bce
&sea
mixed
with faith
:
for
true repentance
is
a fruite-
offaith,
and
The
fifthli;t;
they
are neuer
difoined
the one
from
the other,
neither
can
vs, hen
it
pro-
wee
euer
forrow forfinne
as
we
ought,till
we
haue
forne aifu-
eeedethborrs
.,
rance
of
Godsmercie
and
loue
inlefus
Chrill
;
for
otherwife
our forrowbe
neuer
fo
great, yet
it
is
not
fo
much for
finne.as
for
the.punifhnaent
thereof;
not
fo much becaufe
wee