I add further, that repentance riseth of a godly sorrow in the heart, as Paul teacheth. Godly sorrow 1causeth repentance unto salvation never to be repented of. It is called a godly sorrow, or ⟨p. 4⟩a sorrow according to God, that it may be distinguished from worldly sorrow: which is a grief arising of the apprehension of the wrath of God and other miseries; as fear of men, loss of good name, calamities in goods and other things, which in this life follow as punishments of sin: whereas the godly sorrow causeth grief for sin, because it is sin. And it makes any man, in whom it is, to be of this disposition and mind, that if there were no conscience to accuse, no devil to terrify, no judge to arraign and condemn, no hell to torment, yet he would be humbled & brought on his knees for his sins, because he hath offended a loving, merciful, and long suffering God.
I adde further, that repentāce riseth of a godly sorow in the heart, as Paul teacheth. Godly sorow 1causeth repentance unto salvation never to be repented of. It is called a godly sorow, or ⟨p. 4⟩a sorrow according to God, that it may be distinguished from worldly sorrow: which is a griefe arising of the apprehension of the wrath of God and other miseries; as feare of men, losse of good name, calamities in goods and other things, which in this life follow as punishments of sinne: whereas the godly sorrowe causeth griefe for sinne, because it is sinne. And it makes any man, in whome it is, to be of this disposition and minde, that if there were no conscience to accuse, no devill to terrifie, no iudge to arraigne and condemne, no hell to torment, yet he would be humbled & brought on his knees for his sinnes, because he hath offended a loving, mercifull, and long suffering God.
- 12. Cor. 7. 10.
