The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…

For mortal sins some teach there is no Divine command to Repent. And so to live and dye impenitently, will be no Transgression. No need of it any way, either as a duty enjoined, or as a Medium, Sect. 3. to page 125.

For mortal sins some teach there is no Divine command to Repent. And so to live and dye impenitently, will be no Transgression. No need of it any way, either as a duty injoyn'd, or as a Medium, Sect. 3. to page 125.

Others who confess there is a command for it, will not have it oblige any sinner presently. No sin nor danger to defer Repentance. Nor will they have it needful at such times and occasions, which, if any, would be the necessary seasons for it. Not at solemn times of Worship. Not on days of fasting. Not when visited with great calamities. Not when sins are brought to their Remembrance. Not when they address themselves to their Sacraments, no not that of Penance, Sect 4. & 5. to page 131.

No need to Repent till one be at the point of death. Nor is it so needful then, or any time before, but something else may serve without it. A Repentance without any sensible sorrow for, or actual resolution against sin is sufficient. Or a penitence merely natural may suffice. Or a slight remorse in the lowest degree possible, one act of it, dispatched in an instant, and never repeated, will be enough. Or if a man conceive that he truly repents, though really he does not, this may serve the turn. Or if he know that he does not repent sufficiently, yet if he signify that he would grieve more, and is sorry that he does not, this will be effectual. Or attrition with the Sacrament will unquestionably justify him. Attrition with them far distant from true Repentance. Several sorts of it. Any of them seem sufficient by the Council of Trent. The general concurrence of their Divines for the sufficiency of Attrition; yet the best sort of it confessed to be morally evil, Sect. 6. & 7. to page 144.