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…

3. The child of God is ashamed of sin ⁿas an act of unkindness and unthankfulness to a sweet merciful Lord: though there were no other evil in sin, the conscience of so much mercy and love so far abused, and so unkindly recompensed, is that which confoundeth a penitent sinner. As the wife of a kind husband, if she play the whore (though the world know it not) and if her husband, when he might divorce her, shall still love her and receive her into his bosom; such a one, if she have at all any sense or any bowels of sorrow, must needs be swallowed up of shame and confusion for her undutifulness and treachery to such a husband. But now the Hypocrite is not at all troubled or afflicted in spirit for sin as it is an act of unkindness to God.

3. The childe of God is ashamed of sinne ⁿas an act of unkindnesse and unthankfulnesse to a sweet mercifull Lord: though there were no other evill in sinne, the conscience of so much mercy and love so farre abused, and so unkindly recompensed, is that which confoundeth a penitent sinner. As the wife of a kinde husband, if she play the whore (though the world know it not) and if her husband, when he might divorce her, shall still love her and receive her into his bosome; such a one, if she have at all any sense or any bowels of sorrow, must needs bee swallowed up of shame and confusion for her undutifulnesse and treachery to such a husband. But now the Hypocrite is not at all troubled or afflicted in spirit for sinne as it is an act of unkindnesse to God.

1. nPsal. 130 4. Rom. 2. 4.

4. Shame, ^o