The dejected souls cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and…The dejected soules cure tending to support poor drooping sinners. With rules, comforts, and…

Thirdly, take this Caution, Do not conceive that to be trouble for sin that causeth shame among men; many reprobates are troubled for sin, but why? It is not because God receives dishonour by sin; but because they shall receive shame for their sin; This is not Evangelical trouble. Many men are like Judah, Genesis 38. 23. And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be ashamed; behold, I send this kid, and thou hast not found her. As if he should have said, if the woman should tell that I have committed Adultery with her, I should be ashamed, let her alone: Thus do men cry out, they would have Conscience let them alone, and they would let sin alone, lest they should be ashamed; If so be that the concealing of a sin, can conceal their shame, they care not; why Heathens went beyond this. It is a saying of Seneca, If I did know saith he, that all the men of the world should be ignorant of what sin I had done, yet I would not ⟨p. 219⟩sin, because of the filthiness of sin. Tully hath a notable passage, and it is to be wondered at, that a Heathen should go so far; saith he, That if I thought that all my sins could be concealed from all the world, yet we must do nothing covetously, nothing incontinently, nothing unjustly, we must do no evil though the world should never see us. Many men are more grieved for sin because it is a shame to them; this is not a gracious and an evangelical trouble for sin.

Thirdly, take this Caution, Do not conceive that to be trouble for sin that causeth shame among men; many reprobates are troubled for sin, but why? It is not because God receives dishonour by sin; but because they shall receive shame for their sin; This is not Evangelical trouble. Many men are like Judah, Genesis 38. 23. And Judah said, Let her take it to her, lest we be ashamed; behold, I send this kid, and thou hast not found her. As if he should have said, if the woman should tell that I have committed Adultery with her, I should be ashamed, let her alone: Thus do men cry out, they would have Conscience let them alone, and they would let sin alone, lest they should be ashamed; If so be that the concealing of a sin, can conceal their shame, they care not; why Heathens went beyond this. It is a saying of Seneca, If I did know saith he, that all the men of the world should be ignorant of what sin I had done, yet I would not