The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made

Again, he that believeth, that is, is certainly persuaded, Gods love to be so much towards him, that where through sin he was lost, and made a firebrand of Hell; the eternal Father of mercy, which is the omni-sufficient God, and needeth nothing in us, or of any thing that we can do, to deliver us out of Hell, and to bring us into Heaven; did send even his own most dear Son out of his bosom, out of heaven into hell (as a man would say) to bring us, as I said, from thence into his own bosom and mercy, we being his very enemies: he I say, that is thus persuaded of Gods love towards him, and of the price of his redemption, by ⟨p. 68⟩the dear blood of the Lamb immaculate, Jesus Christ, the same man cannot but love God again; and of love do that, and heartily desire to do better, the which might please God.

Again, he that beleeveth, that is, is certainly perswaded, Gods love to be so much towards him, that where through sinne he was lost, and made a firebrand of Hell; the eternall Father of mercy, which is the omni-sufficient God, and needeth nothing in us, or of any thing that we can doe, to deliver us out of Hell, and to bring us into Heaven; did send even his own most deare Sonne out of his bosome, out of heaven into hell (as a man would say) to bring us, as I said, from thence into his own bosome and mercy, we being his very enemies: he I say, that is thus perswaded of Gods love towards him, and of the price of his redemption, by ⟨p. 68⟩the deare blood of the Lamb immaculate, Jesus Christ, the same man cannot but love God againe; and of love doe that, and heartily desire to doe better, the which might please God.

Think you, that such a one knowing these things by Faith, will willingly insist and wallow in his wilful lusts, pleasures and fantasies? Will such a one as knoweth by Faith, Christ Jesus to have given his blood to wash him from his sins play the Sow to nuzzle in his puddle of filthy sin and vice again? Nay, rather then he will be defiled again by his wilful sinning, he will wash often the feet of his affections, watching over the vice still sticking in him; which as a spring, continually sendeth out poison enough to drown and defile him, if the sweet water of Christs passion in Gods sight, did not wash it, and his blood satisfy the rigour of Gods justice due for the same.