The doubting believer, or, A treatiseThe doubting beleever, or, A treatise

But if it be by way of commission, either by relapsing into the same sins, or multiplying of sin in another kind, (both which will dig up again our buried and fore-past guilts) then I know no way of peace and safety, no way to allay these renewed accusations ⟨p. 332⟩and stings, but by renewed sorrow and repentance. And verily what I delivered unto you heretofore about recovery from relapsing, that is the course presently to be taken here: O let us haste in before the Lord with hearts trickling down with tears of blood, for old and present wounds: the very abundance of sorrow, the bitterness of grief, the art of self-affliction, I cannot say that sorrow of sorrow, that hatred of hatred, that indignation of indignation, that revenge of revenge, that repentance of repentance, which are here necessarily required, and that too with longest continuance. Do what thou wilt, shuffle off, cut to thy self a peace, thou shalt never have it, thy sins shall ever and anon gall, and vex, and wound thee, until thou hast renewed thy bitterness of most humbled sorrow for ⟨p. 333⟩renewing thy filthiness and baseness of thy audacious sinning.

But if it be by way of commission, either by relapsing into the same sins, or multiplying of sinne in another kinde, (both which will dig up again our buried and fore-past guilts) then I know no way of peace and safety, no way to allay these renewed accusations ⟨p. 332⟩and stings, but by renewed sorrow and repentance. And verily what I delivered unto you heretofore about recovery from relapsing, that is the course presently to be taken here: O let us haste in before the Lord with hearts trickling down with tears of bloud, for old and present wounds: the very abundance of sorrow, the bitternesse of griefe, the art of self-affliction, I cannot say that sorrow of sorrow, that hatred of hatred, that indignation of indignation, that revenge of revenge, that repentance of repentance, which are here necessarily required, and that too with longest continuance. Doe what thou wilt, shuffle off, cut to thy selfe a peace, thou shalt never have it, thy sinnes shall ever and anon gall, and vexe, and wound thee, untill thou hast renewed thy bitternesse of most humbled sorrow for