CXLV expository sermons upon the whole 17th chapter of the Gospel according to St.…

1. The real and bitter sense of their sins in the nature, frequency, and all aggravations of them; So that while they are thus broken in heart nothing but sin, sin doth present it self in the guilt thereof; See it in David, Psa. 51. His sins were always before him; His murder, his adultery, these were ever in his eyes, and what a work is it to bring him to a joyful spirit in the mercies of God; The godly therefore being many times attent to their sins, they are careful that their repentance be real, bitter, and deep enough, and withal seeing sins rising up in their hearts after one another, as one wave after another; They grow wholly despondent, and all their thoughts and Meditations are as if there were nothing but sin to be thought upon, Nothing but sin to be meditated on, and this extremity of sorrow makes the ear deaf to Christ, so that it refuseth like Rachel to be comforted; Thus the Incestuous person when he did feel the bitterness of his sin, was in danger of being swallowed up with too much sorrow; He thinketh not only the Priest and the Levite, but even the good Samaritan will also pass him by and pour no Oil in his wounds; When one eye is intent downwards, the other cannot look upwards; When the heart is greatly grieved from one object, it can hardly be prepared to receive comfort from another.

1. The real and bitter sence of their sinnes in the nature, frequency, and all aggravations of them; So that while they are thus broken in heart nothing but sin, sin doth present it self in the guilt thereof; See it in David, Psa. 51. His sinnes were alwaies before him; His murder, his adultery, these were ever in his eyes, and what a work is it to bring him to a joyful spirit in the mercies of God; The godly therefore being many times attent to their sins, they are carefull that their repentance be reall, bitter, and deep enough, and withall seeing sinnes rising up in their hearts after one another, as one wave after another; They grow wholly despondent, and all their thoughts and Meditations are as if there were nothing but sinne to be thought upon, Nothing but sin to be meditated on, and this extremity of sorrow makes the ear deaf to Christ, so that it refuseth like Rachel to be comforted; Thus the Incestuous person when he did feel the bitternesse of his sin, was in danger of being swallowed up with too much sorrow; He thinketh not only the Priest and the Levite, but even the good Samaritan will also passe him by and powr no Oyle in his wounds; When one eye is intent downwards, the other cannot look upwards; When the heart is greatly grieved from one object, it can hardly be prepared to receive comfort from another.