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4 If we consider the effect of these sorrows, whereby this temporary is stricken; they work no alteration nor change in his life; he goes softly, clothes himself with sackcloth, hangs down his head like a bull-rush, but so as he licks up the vomit of his sins, keeps iniquity close under his tongue: Esau even when he cried out for grief, yet had this resolution in him, that when the days of mourning for his father were past, he would be avenged of his brother by killing him, Gen. 27.41.¹ So Ahab, even soon after he had sorrowed for Gods judgements denounced against him for his murderous oppression of Nabeth, he imprisoned Micaiah, 1 King. 22.27.² whereas the sorrow that accompanies him that is in the state of grace, […] ⟨p. 238⟩[…] ⟨p. 239⟩⟨p. 240⟩brings such a reformation of heart and life, as we may see in Paul.

4 If wee consider the effect of these sorrowes, whereby this temporary is stricken; they worke no alteration nor change in his life; hee goes softly, cloathes himselfe with sackcloath, hangs downe his head like a bul-rush, but so as hee lickes up the vomit of his sinnes, keepes iniquity close under his tongue: Esau even when he cryed out for griefe, yet had this resolution in him, that when the daies of mourning for his father were past, he would be avenged of his brother by killing him, Gen. 27.41.¹ So Ahab, even soone after hee had sorrowed for Gods judgements denounced against him for his murderous oppression of Nabeth, hee imprisoned Micaiah,