A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast…A sermon preached before the Honourable House of Commons at their late solemne fast…

1. To be truly ashamed of sin, is to be ashamed of it as an ¹act of filthiness and uncleanness. The child of God, when he comes to the throne of grace, is ashamed of an unclean heart. though the world cannot see it. A natural man at his best looketh upon sin, as it damneth and destroyeth the soul, but he cannot look upon it, as it defiles the soul. Shame ariseth properly from a filthy act, though no other evil be to follow upon it.

1. To be truly ashamed of sinne, is to be ashamed of it as an ¹act of filthinesse and uncleannesse. The childe of God, when he comes to the throne of grace, is ashamed of an unclean heart. though the world cannot see it. A naturall man at his best looketh upon sinne, as it damneth and destroyeth the soule, but hee cannot look upon it, as it defiles the soul. Shame ariseth properly from a filthy act, though no other evill be to follow upon it.

1. 1Five marks of difference betwixt the humiliation of the child of God, and that of the Hypocrite.Five markes of difference betwixt the humiliation of the childe of God, and that of the Hypocrite.

2. As we are ashamed of acts of filthiness, so of acts of folly. A natural man may judge himself a fool in regard of the circumstances or consequents of this sin, but he is not convinced that sin in it self is an act of madness and folly. When the child of God is humbled ^lhe becomes a fool in his own eyes, he perceives he hath done like a mad fool; Therefore he is said then to ^mcome to himself.