The third difference is in the effects, for as they 1do proceed not from one and the same ground: so they bring not forth the same, but contrary effects, and they are three fold: First, worldly sorrow, it draws the affections of the heart from God, because they see him as a judge, they cannot love him as a Father: he takes God to be his enemy, and therefore doth what he can to fly from him, because he expects no good from him, this we see as before in Adam, Cain and Judas: but the godly sorrow, it makes a man cleave faster unto Christ, to stick faster unto grace, it whets the affections, to love Christ, to prize Christ more, it works a willing readiness in the soul to obey, it puts by that which would make him fly from Christ; Secondly, worldly sorrow, it hurts ⟨p. 197⟩the body, it breeds diseases, it wastes and consumes the Entrails, breeds and brings consumption of the body, it dulls, and makes dead the soul, it takes away the relish of spiritual things, it makes a man careless to good, it dulls and makes a man unwilling unto any good. But the godly sorrow, it is the life of the soul, it is the health of the body, it quickeneth the soul of man unto good, it puts a new life into it: it works a readiness in the will, and love in the affections to Christ, grace, and holiness. Thirdly, worldly sorrow, it makes a man of a hot, and a fiery spirit, it stirs him up after evil, to reproach and disgrace his neighbour, it fills him full of hatred, revenge, and envy: but godly sorrow, it breeds another kind of Spirit in him, it makes him of a meek, and a quiet spirit: worldly sorrow will not put up reproach disgrace and wrong, but this will put up all injuries and wrongs, and whatsoever else he meets withal for Christ: thus you see the difference between these.
The third difference is in the effects, for as they 1doe proceed not from one and the same ground: so they bring not forth the same, but contrary effects, and they are three fold: First, worldly sorrow, it drawes the affections of the heart from God, because they see him as a judge, they cannot love him as a Father: he takes God to be his enemy, and therefore doth what he can to flye from him, because he expects no good from him, this we see as before in Adam, Cain and Iudas: but the godly sorrow, it makes a man cleave faster unto Christ, to sticke faster unto grace, it whets the affections, to love Christ, to prize Christ more, it workes a willing readinesse in the soule to obey, it puts by that which would make him flye from Christ; Secondly, worldly sorrow, it hurts ⟨p. 197⟩the body, it breeds diseases, it wasts and consumes the Intrailes, breeds and brings consumption of the body, it duls, and makes dead the soule, it takes away the rellish of spirituall things, it makes a man carelesse to good, it daules and makes a man unwilling unto any good. But the godly sorrow, it is the life of the soule, it is the health of the body, it quickneth the soule of man unto good, it puts a new life into it: it workes a readinesse in the will, and love in the affections to Christ, grace, and holinesse. Thirdly, worldly sorrow, it makes a man of a hot, and a fiery spirit, it stirres him up after evill, to reproach and disgrace his neighbour, it fils him full of hatred, revenge, and envy: but godly sorrow, it breeds another kind of Spirit in him, it makes him of a meeke, and a quiet spirit: wordly sorrow will not put up reproach disgrace and wrong, but this will put up all injuries and wrongs, and whatsoever else hee meets withall for Christ: thus you see the difference betweene these.
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