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…

Fifthly, Account not that to be a right disquiet and trouble of soul for sin, that is only for great and gross acts of sin, without having any remorse for secret and lesser evils: many men if one stares them in the face, though all their other sins never trouble them, they conclude this to be godly sorrow and evangelical remorse in them. Alas, Beloved, Judas was troubled for one sin, but not for another sin; he was troubled for ill gotten goods: but to be troubled for one sin, and not for all sins, is no Gospel sorrow; he that is not troubled for every sin that he knoweth that he is guilty of, he is troubled for no sin. Look upon wicked men, you shall see them many times troubled for great evils, but never troubled for smaller evils; those sins that disquiet a godly mans heart, shall not break a nap of sleep from him; he can go merrily and jocundly under the guilt of those sins which troubleth the soul and breaketh the peace of a godly conscientious man all his days; those sins that are ornaments to wicked men, that they can wear them as a chain of Gold about their necks; they wear their pride, and show their pride; they account sin their ornaments. I, but that which is one mans ornament, is another mans torment; his pride, his lust, and his complemental oaths is his delight, but it is a torment to a godly man; therefore do not account that a ⟨p. 220⟩disquiet of soul, to be a godly disquiet.

Fifthly, Account not that to be a right disquiet and trouble of soul for sin, that is only for great and grosse acts of sin, without having any remorse for secret and lesser evils: many men if one stares them in the face, though all their other sins never trouble them, they conclude this to be godly sorrow and evangelical remorse in them. Alas, Beloved, Judas was troubled for one sin, but not for another sin; he was troubled for ill gotten goods: but to be troubled for one sin, and not for all sins, is no Gospel sorrow; he that is not troubled for every sin that he knoweth that he is guilty of, he is troubled for no sin. Look upon wicked men, you shall see them many times troubled for great evils, but never troubled for smaller evils; those sins that disquiet a godly mans heart, shall not break a nap of sleep from him; he can go merrily and joeundly under the guilt of those sins which troubleth the soul and breaketh the peace of a godly consciencious man all his days; those sins that are ornaments to wicked men, that they can wear them as a chain of Gold about their necks; they wear their pride, and shew their pride; they account sin their ornaments. I, but that which is one mans ornament, is another mans torment; his pride, his lust, and his complemental oaths is his delight, but it is a torment to a godly man; therefore do not account that a