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1®SoWe
maybe
4firured
that
our
repentance
it
w
fanied.5
I;.
pentance
vnleffe
they
iffue
from
abroken
heart
and
contrite
fpirit,
from
a
true
hatred
of
finne,
and from
hartie forrow
conceiued
becaufe wee
haue offended
our gratious
God. On
the
other fide,ifwee be
in
fnceritie
of
heart,
truely
forrie for
-our
fumes
in
there refpeeis, becaufe we
hate our
,finnes
and
Ioue
God,and
are difpleafed
with our
feinesbecaufe
we
haue
difpleafed
our gratious father, indeuouring to forfake
our
fumes
and
to
leade
a
new
life in holineffe
and
righteouf
:effe,
then though
wee can
feldome or neuer
flied
teares, which
is
the
cafe
offorne
ofGods
deareíl children,
yet
our repentance
is
true
and
vnfained
;
for in this a6tion
the broken
and con
-
trite
hart
is
more
to
be
refpeó}ed
then
theblubred
eyes,
how
-
foeucr
molt
commonly they goe
together.
And
fo
much
concerning the
figues
oftrue
repentance,
which
ifafter
due
examination
wee can find in
our felues,we
may
bee allured
that
we
are truely
penitent
;
nay
I
will fay
more,for
the
comfort
of
all
humbled
fanners,
if
after
diligent
fearch they find
not
in
their owns
fenfe
and feeling
thefe
fignes
of
true repentance
in
them
at al,or at
leaf}
in
very
fmal
meafine, yet
if
they
earnef}ly
define
and fincerely
indeuour
to
amine
vnto
true repentance,
vfng
thofe
good
meanes
or-
dained
of
God
for this
pu,pofe, they
may
affure
themfelues
that
they
haue
truely
repented
in
the fight
of
God,who
ac-
cepteth ofthe
will for
the deed,
and
of
the
affe&ion for
the
ac`}ion,
as
before
I
haue
fhewed.
And
thus
may we
repell
the tentation
ofSatan,and
receiue §.
See,6.
comfort vnto our
owne foules,when
hee
laboureth to per-
That the
agu-
(wade
vs
that
our
repentance
is
not
true and
vnfained
but
ranceofthe
re-
falfe
and hypocritical!.
But
ifthe
tempter cannot
thus pre-
de
on
oh
not
uaile,
in
the next
place
hee
will tell
vs
that
our
repentance
on:
be
iignity
though
if
it
be true, yet
it
is
not
fufficient,neither
is
there
any of
oar repen-
proportion betweene our
final!
repentance and our
great
tanm
hones,
as
Gods
iuf}ice
doth require.
To
which
we
mull an-
£were,
that
the
remiflìon-
of
our
finnes
and
reconciliation
with God,
dependeth
not
vpon
the
dignitie
or
quantitie
of
our
repentance,
but
vpon
the
righteoufneffe
and
full
fatif-
fah}ion
of
our Sauiour
Iefus
Chrif
i;
neither
doe we repent
tothe
cnd
that thereby
wee
may
in whole, or
in
partfatisfie
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