The law unsealed

Lastly, we add, that generally the Consciences of the Godly look on this kind of practises, although committed in sleep, with horror, and no reasoning or disputing will truly quiet them, till they be humbled before God under them, and yet they use not to be so troubled in other things that are merely Ceremonial: How doth Augustine complain of this, yea confess and lament it, Confess. lib. 10. cap. 30. (though elsewhere he accounts it no sin) yet he cries out of it, and that he thought it a mercy, that he had not done what in sleep he consented to act, reperimus nos non fecisse, doleamus tamen quoquo modo in nobis factum suisse, It grieves him that it should be any way done in him, and he aggreadgeth it thus, that he had not always rejected these as sometimes he had done: And do not the Godly sometimes in their sleep make opposition to these motions? and how often do they in prayer wrestle against this evil, and that (as I conceive) from another apprehension of it then simply, because of any punishment or affliction that is in it? for many things more afflicting do not so effect them; and yet even these know the reasons that are made use of against the sinfulness of it, which maketh me think there is something directly against Conscience and Purity in these sinful actions or motions.

Lastly, we add, that generally the Consciences of the Godly look on this kind of practises, although committed in sleep, with horrour, and no reasoning or disputing will truly quiet them, till they be humbled before God under them, and yet they use not to be so troubled in other things that are meerly Ceremonial: How doth Augustine complain of this, yea confess and lament it, Confess. lib. 10. cap. 30. (though elsewhere he accounts it no sin) yet he crys out of it, and that he thought it a mercy, that he had not done what in sleep he consented to act, reperimus nos non fecisse, doleamus tamen quoquo modo in nobis factum suisse, It grieves him that it should be any way done in him, and he aggreadgeth it thus, that he had not alwayes rejected these as sometimes he had done: And do not the Godly sometimes in their sleep make opposition to these motions? and how often do they in prayer wrestle against this evil, and that (as I conceive) from another apprehension of it then simply, because of any punishment or affliction that is in it? for many things more afflicting do not so effect them; and yet even these know the reasons that are made use of against the sinfulness of it, which maketh me think there is something directly against Conscience and Purity in these sinful actions or motions.