The Soul's Preparation for Christ

Whereas this overly, and loose dealing of yours, is loathsome to us; do you think we perceive it not? Yes, we may feel it with our fingers, and (when you are gone, I tell you what we think) surely that man is an hypocrite, he hath a hollow heart, he is not willing to take shame to himself for his sin, his confession never comes to the bottom.

Whereas this overly, and loose dealing of yours, is loathsome to us; doe you thinke we perceive it not? Yes, we may feele it with our fingers, and (when you are gone, I tell you what we thinke) surely that man is an hypocrite, he hath a hollow heart, he is not willing to take shame to himselfe for his sinne, his confession never comes to the bottome.

¹Secondly, confession is a matter of great safety; I take this to be the only cause, why many a man goes troubled, and gets neither comfort in the pardon of the sin, nor strength against it, because he comes not off kindly in this work of confession.

¹Secondly, confession is a matter of great safety; I take this to be the only cause, why many a man goes troubled, and gets neither comfort in the pardon of the sinne, nor strength against it, because he comes not off kindly in this worke of confession.

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When you do nakedly open your sins to a faithful minister, you go out in battle against sin, and you have a second in the field to stand by you: but especially there is comfort in this particular, for the minister will discover the lusts and deceits, and corruptions, that you could not find out, and he will lay open all those holds of Satan, and that means of comfort that you never knew: I am able to speak it by experience,