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YVby
tearer
arc
not
111071-
bred
aruongii
the
frgnes
of
vnfained
re-
pentance.
Gen 27.4r.
NuCrl,
1
1
,
2
.
51
2
Igo*
the
;nay be
ajirred
that
our
repentance
is
vnfained.
we
haue
thereby
difpleafed
God,
as
for
thofe torments
of
confcience
which
we
prcfenly
endure,
and the torments
of
hc11,
\
hich
for the
time
to
corne we fcare. And
therefore
this
defperate
forrow
is
it
felfe
to
be forrowed for,
as
being
feue-
red
from faith, and therefore finnefull, and
not
proceeding
from
any loue
ofGod,
or
hatred
of
finne,
but
from the fears
ofpunifhn
ent
and
condemnation.
But it
may
be
demanded, why amongfl
the lignes
oftrue
repentance,
I
haue
not
nunrbred teares and weeping for
our
finnes
;
to
which
I
anfweare, becaufe
hove
foeuer
it
is
a
nota-
ble fruite
of
vnfained
repentance,vnto
which
euery
Chrifiian
with
true
compunuion
of
heart
is
to
accuflome hitnfelfe,yet
notwithfianding it
is
not
an
infeparable
propertie
thereof;
for oftentimes
there
are
teares
whereas there
is
no
true
repen-
tance, and there
is
true repentance whereas there
are
few or
no
teares. For
the
firfi,
we
may
plainely
perceiue
by
conti-
nuall experience
that
teares
proceed from
diuers
other
caué
fes
then from true
repentance; fometimes from
exceiìue ioy,
whereby
the
pores
and
paffages
of
the
eyes
are
loofed
and
opened; and fometimes from naturali and worldly forrow,
whereby the
Paid
paffages are
conflringed and
flraitened.,
Sometimes from
furious
anger,and
fometimes from
compaf
Pion
and
pitie
;
and in fpirituall
things,fometimes
thefe teares
flow from vnfained
repentance, fomtimes from defperat for-
row,
conceived vpon the apprehenfion
of
Gods horrible
wrath,or
of
the
fearcful
torments
and eternall condemnation
prepared for them.
Wherefore
it
commeth to
paffe
that
in
the abundance
oftheir
teares, they vtter
from
a
heart
full
of
raging
malice,
horrible
blafphemies againfi
God.
An exam-
ple
hereofwe
haue
inEfau,who
in
the middetl
ofhis
weeping
and
hòuling comforted
himfelfe
with the
remembrance
of
his fathers
death,
and
of
that
rncfl
wicked murther which
he
intended veto
his
innocent
brother,
Gen.27.41.
So
the re.
beliious
Ifraelites
being
difcouraged with
the
newes which
the
(pies
brought
who
were fent
to
fearch
the land,
are
Paid
to
haue
coed
and
wept,and
yet
in
the middefl
or.their lamen-
tation to
haue
n
u'inured
againfi
God
and his
feruants'Mors
,aid
e,
.'aroi.
So.that
f
mplie teares
are
not
a,
Ggne
of
true re-
pentance