Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

3. Some signs and notes for the trial thereof.

3. Some signs and notes for the tryall thereof.

I. For the first, what true Repentance is, I answer, It is a grace of Gods Spirit, whereby both the heart and affections within, and also ⟨p. 113⟩the life and actions without are reformed. In this description I take the full nature of Repentance to be comprised. Many do add hereunto an inward sorrowing and mourning of the heart, which doth indeed always accompany true Repentance, but it is not of the nature thereof: For then, wheresoever sorrow for sin were, there should be true Repentance, which is not so, as the examples of Saul, Judas, and other wicked men do declare. Briefly to open this definition of Repentance.

I. For the first, what true Repentance is, I answer, It is a grace of Gods Spiri•, whereby both the heart and affections within, and also ⟨p. 113⟩the life and actions without are reformed. In this description I take the full nature of Repentance to be comprized. Many do add hereunto an inward sorrowing and mourning of the heart, which doth indeed alwaies accompany true Repentance, but it is not of the nature thereof: For then, wheresoever sorrow for sin were, there should be true Repentance, which is not so, as the examples of Saul, Iudas, and other wicked men do declare. Briefly to open this d•finition of Repentance.

First, I say, It is a grace of Gods Spirit, i. e. a gift freely given of God, and wrought in us by his holy Spirit; so that it proceedeth not from mans free will, nor from any power and ability of his nature.