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…

Thus of the causes.

There are four properties of godly ⟨p. 34⟩sorrow which among the rest, we must labour after, and without which we can hardly have true assistance, that our sorrows are right.

THere are foure properties of godly ⟨p. 34⟩sorrow which among the rest, we must labour after, and without which we can hardlie haue true assistance, that our sorrowes are right.

First, it is inquisitive, it is a hard thing to make sorrow silent, and he that is truly pricked in his heart,¹ cannot with contentment smother his doubts, he will ask the way to Zion, and cannot rest till he have known what to do to be saved,² those that find so little to ask, ⟨p. 35⟩and can be so silent in the presence of Gods servants, by whom they might be directed, may suspect their sorrows.

First, it is inquisitiue, it is a hard thing to make sorrow silent, and hee that is truelie pricked in his heart,¹ cannot with contentment smother his doubts, hee will aske the way to Sion, and cannot rest till he haue knowne what to doe to be saued,