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The sharking Officer,¹ (that like Menelaus, an Armenian Archer in the wars betwixt Constantius and Magnentius) can shoot three arrows at once, at one loose; wherewith he wounds not one, but three at the least: the Prince whom he serves, the person whom he draws blood of, and the body of the Common-wealth; cares not for repentance. I need not speak of the Church-robber, the Usurer, the Drunkard, the Proud, the unclean adulterer: no man can think, that they care for repentance. O but they all purpose to repent. Spare them a while; they are but new set into the Oven; not yet fully baked in their hot vanities: ⟨p. 150⟩let them soak a little in their pleasures, and at last they will return.² They are as an Oven heated by the Baker. Repentance is an ascent of four steps: many get up three of them, but climb not to the fourth and best.

The sharking Officer,¹ (that like Menelaus, an Armenian Archer in the wars betwixt Constantius and Magnentius) can shoot three arrowes at once, at one loose; wherewith hee wounds not one, but three at the least: the Prince whom hee serues, the person whom hee drawes bloud of, and the body of the Common-wealth; cares not for repentance. I neede not speake of the Church-robber, the Vsurer, the Drunkard, the Proud, the vncleane adulterer: no man can think, that they care for repentance. O but they all purpose to repent. Spare them a while; they are but new set into the Ouen; not yet fully baked in their hot vanities: ⟨p. 150⟩let them foke a little in their pleasures, and at last they will returne.² They are as an Ouen heated by the Baker. Repentance is an ascent of foure steps: many get vp three of them, but climbe not to the fourth and best.

1. 1Zosun. lib. 2.
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