A commentary or, exposition upon the divine second epistle general, writtenA commentary or, exposition vpon the diuine second epistle generall, written

Thou hast marred my verses, and I have marred thy vessels. If […] abuse Gods creatures, he will spoil our pleasures.

Thou hast marr'd my verses, and I have marr'd thy vessels. If 〈…〉 abuse Gods creatures, he will spoile our pleasures.

2 Let us repent of our sinning, lest God repent of our making. O that for […] of a little sorrow, we should hazard the loss of such a joy, as the delight of our C•• ator. When we sin, we give him cause to grieve at our doing, but while we c•• tinue impenitent, we give him cause to grieve at our being. Shall our Maker rep• • ⟨p. 537⟩we are, and we not repent that we are so evil? Did he not make us of thing? and is he not able to reduce us to nothing, to worse than nothing; yet do we provoke him, and put him to it by our rebellions? Repentance is a •ee of continual use, because sin is a thing of continual practise. It is better •ng to the house of mourning, than of mirth; saith Solomon; more expedient for […] souls health: through his own experience, he taught us this expedience. In •e we patch our clothes, in repentance we rend them in pieces. It unmakes a •n that which sin made him; whereas impenitence keeps him for ever the same. •ey that lived unconverted sinners on earth, remain the same in hell.^e All that •e before me are thieves and robbers: in congruity of speech he should have said, e thieves; yes, not only were, but Are so still. Saul is still a homicide, you can say so of David, that he is still an adulterer; because he repented, and by that […] tenewed.