The signs or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods love, and mans salvation…The signes or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods loue, and mans saluation…

For the first of them we must consider what raiseth our sorrows and what assuageth them, for godly sorrow, is chiefly raised for sin: and so ⟨p. 28⟩for the sins of the time, because others keep not the law. For Ezekiel doubt not to mark them with Gods mark,¹ that mourn for the abomination done in Jerusalem;² but we must understand that this sorrow must be simple, because God is dishonoured.

For the first of them wee must consider what raiseth our sorrowes and what asswageth them, for godlie sorrow, is chiefelie raised for sinne: and so ⟨p. 28⟩for the sinnes of the time, because others keepe not the law. For Ezechiel doubt not to mark them with Gods marke,¹ that mourne for the abhomination done in Ierusalem;² but wee must vnderstand that this sorrow must bee simple, because God is dishonored.

1. 1Ezech. 9. 4
2. 2Psa. 119. 36.

And further in sorrow for our own sins, we must mourn, for all sorts of sins, for lesser sins, as well as greater,¹ for sins of our calling, for secret sins as well as open, for sins