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 and properties concerning the concomitants ⟨p. 38⟩there are diverse things do accompany godly sorrow, by which it is discerned; for,

Thus of the causes and properties concerning the concomitants ⟨p. 38⟩there are diuerse things doe accompanie godlie sorrow, by which it is discerned; for,

First it is joined with a secret trust in the acceptation of God, so as no misery can beat them from the consideration and inward affiance of hope of mercy, in the very disquietness of the heart the desire of the soul is to the Lord,¹ & before his presence though a child of God, be never so much cast down, yet he waits upon God, for ⟨p. 39⟩the help of his countenance,² and in some measure condemns the unbelief of his own heart, and supporteth himself with the hope of the never failing compassions of God:³ thus it differs from the sorrows of Cain and Judas.

First it is ioyned with a secret trust in the acacceptation of God, so as no miserie can beate them from the consideration and inward affiance of hope of mercie, in the verie disquietnesse of the heart the desire of the soule is to the Lord,¹ & before his presence though a childe of God, be neuer so much cast downe, yet hee waits vpon God, for ⟨p. 39⟩