Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

7. Such also are all they, who living in gross sin, and being convinced of it, will not promise a sincere endeavour to reform: nor will remove from or put away the removable occasions which draw them to sin: nor will be persuaded to use those known means which God hath commanded for the curing of their sin; as to hear the Word, to change their Company, to confess their sin, and take shame to themselves, and profess Repentance. They that Notoriously thus refuse Reformation, when by Ministers or discreet Christians they are urged to it, or that refuse Gods means which they are convinced he requireth of them, and this obstinately, are notoriously ungodly, though they do not profess it in words: For though it be exceeding hard to determine how great, many, or long, the sins of a true Believer may be, yet we are certain that he cannot manifest such a Love to them, or Habituated unwillingness to be cured of them. For that will not stand with true Repentance.

7. Such also are all they, who living in gross sin, and being convinced of it, will not promise a sincere endeavour to reform: nor will remove from or put away the removeable occasions which draw them to sin: nor will be perswaded to use those known means which God hath commanded for the curing of their sin; as to hear the Word, to change their Company, to confess their sin, and take shame to themselves, and profess Repentance. They that Notoriously thus refuse Reformation, when by Ministers or discreet Christians they are urged to it, or that refuse Gods means which they are convinced he requireth of them, and this obstinately, are notoriously ungodly, though they do not profess it in words: For though it be exceeding hard to determine how great, many, or long, the sins of a true Believer may be, yet we are certain that he cannot manifest such a Love to them, or Habituated unwillingness to be cured of them. For that will not stand with true Repentance.

8. All those are Notoriously ungodly, that profess or express notoriously a Hatred of those that would draw them from their sins, (not for their harsh or indiscreet management of a reproof, nor upon a mere mistaken conceit that the Reprover oweth him ill will, but) on that very account, because they would draw them from known sin. For this is Notorious impenitency, and shows a Love of sin, and the Reign of it in the Will.