The Soul's Conflict with Itself

Of sorrow for sin, and hatred of sin, when right and sufficient. Helps thereto.

Of sorow for sin, and hatred of sinne, when right and sufficient. Helps thereto.

AH, there's my misery. If I could be ¹humbled for sin, I might hope for mercy, but I never yet knew what a broken heart meant, this soul of mine was never as yet sensible of the grief and smart of sin, how then can I expect any comfort?

AH, there's my misery. If I could bee ¹humbled for sinne, I might hope for mercy, but I never yet knew what a broken heart meant, this soule of mine was never as yet sensible of the griefe and smart of sinne, how then can I expect any comfort?

1. 1Object.

It is one of Satan's policies, to hold ¹us in a dead and barren condition, by following us with conceits, that we have not sorrowed in proportion to our offences. True it is, we should labour that our sorrow might in some measure answer to the heinousness of our sins: but we must know sorrow is not required ²for it self in that degree as faith is; If we could trust in God without much sorrow for our sins, then it would not be required, for God delights not in our sorrow as sorrow, God in mercy both requires it and works it, as thereby making us capable vessels of mercy, fit to acknowledge, value, and walk worthy