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5. A fifth spring of doubtings, was special and particular sins after conversion: These, like a strong disease, do shake the very heart and spirit of the Christian, and stagger him on every side; and like a cloud, fold up all our comfortable communion with God; like a dead fly they fall in all our services. If thou dost ill, sin lies at the door, said God to Cain: And so you shall find it, that special sins after conversion do much interrupt us in our approaches, and in our confidences.

5. A fift spring of doubtings, was speciall and particular sins after conversion: These, like a strong disease, do shake the very heart and spirit of the Christian, and stagger him on every side; and like a cloud, fold up all our comfortable communion with God; like a dead fly they fall in all our services. If thou dost ill, sinne lies at the doore, said God to Cain: And so you shall find it, that speciall sinnes after conversion doe much interrupt us in our approaches, and in our confidences.

Now the way to cure this spring, is,

1. To renew our sorrows, to set upon the fountain: David ¹did so after his great sins, and so did Peter; the one did ²water his couch, and his tears were his meat day and night, and the other went out and wept bitterly.

1. To renew our sorrowes, to set upon the fountaine: David ¹