The Doctrine of Repentance

1. When a mans spirit is set against¹ sin. The tongue doth not only inveigh against sin, but the heart abhors it^*. So that let sin be never so curiously painted, it is odious. As we abhor the picture of one whom we mortally hate, though it be exactly drawn.

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2. *Ut vitis refugit brassicam, quercus ab olea abhorret, ita poenitens à peccato. Erasm.

—Non amo te Sabidi—

Suppose a dish be finely cooked, and the sauce good, yet if a man hath an antipathy against the meat, he will not taste it. So let the Devil cook and dress sin with pleasure and profit, yet a true penitent having a secret abhorrency of it, doth disgust it, and will not meddle with it.