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A true Penitent is much in confessing and lamenting over that secret pride, that secret fleshliness, that secret worldliness, that secret hypocrisy, that secret vain glory, &c. that is only obvious to God and his own soul. But 'tis quite otherwise with wicked men; for they confess their grosser sins, but never observe their lesser sins; they confess their open sins, but never lay open their secret sins. Cain confesses his murdering of his brother, but never confesses his secret enmity that put him upon washing his hands in his brother's blood. Pharaoh confesses his oppression of the children of Israel, but he does not confess the pride of his heart, nor the hardness of his heart. Judas confesses his betraying of innocent blood, but he never confesses his covetousness, that put him upon betraying of the Lord of glory. And others have confessed their Apostasy, who have never confessed their hypocrisy that hath led them to Apostasy, &c. Well, this is certain, that those little sins, those secret sins, that never break a sinners sleep, do often break a believers heart.

A true Penitent is much in confessing and lamenting over that secret pride, that secret fleshliness, that secret worldliness, that secret hypocrisie, that secret vain glory, &c. that is only obvious to God and his own soul. But 'tis quite otherwise with wicked men; for they confess their grosser sins, but never observe their lesser sins; they confess their open sins, but never lay open their secret sins. Cain confesses his murdering of his brother, but never confesses his secret enmity that put him upon washing his hands in his brother's bloud. Pharoah confesses his oppression of the children of Israel, but he does not confess the pride of his heart, nor the hardness of his heart. Judas confesses his betraying of innocent blood, but he never confesses his covetousness, that put him upon betraying of the Lord of glory. And others have confest their Apostacy, who have never confest their hypocrisie that hath led them to Apostacy, &c. Well, this is certain, that those little sins, those secret sins, that never break a sinners sleep, do often break a believers heart.

Thirdly, As true penitential confession is full, so 'tis sincere, 'tis cordial; 'tis not a feigned, nor a formal, nor a mere verbal confession, but an affectionate confession; 'tis a confession that has the mind, the heart, the soul as well as the