The Doctrine of Repentance

5. The true turning from sin is such a¹ turn, as hath no return, Hos. 14. 8. Ephraim shall say, what have I to do any more with Idols^*? The forsaking sin must be like the forsaking ones native soil, never to return more to it. Some have seemed to be converts, and to have turned from sin, but they have returned to their sins again^*. This is a returning •o folly^*. It is,

1. 15.
2. *Vera est poenitentia quando aliquis convertitur, & non revertitur. • Aug.
3. *Irrisor est non poenitens, qui adhuc agit quod poenitet. Isidor.
4. *Psal. 85 8.

A fearful sin. For 1. It is against clear light: He who did once leave his sin, it is to be supposed he felt it bitter in the pangs of conscience, yet he returned to¹ ⟨p. 69⟩it again; he must needs sin against the illuminations of the Spirit.