The Doctrine of Repentance

They are but half-turned, who turn¹ from many sins, but are unturned from some special sin. There is an harlot in the bosom they will not let go. As if a man should be cured of several diseases, but hath a canker in his breast, and that kills him.²

1. 13.
2. 22 Branch.

It reproves such whose turning is as good as no turning; who have one Devil goes out of them, and another enter• they turn from swearing to slandering, from profuseness to covetousness: Like a sick man that turns from a tertian Ague to a quartan. Such turning will turn men to Hell.

Let us in this show our selves penitents,^{1 2}in turning from sin to God^*. There are some persons I have little hope to prevail with: Let the trumpet of the word sound never so shrill, let threatenings be thundered out against them, let some flashes of Hell fire be thrown in their faces, yet they will have the other game at sin. These persons seem to be like the Swine in the Gospel, carried down by the Devil violently into the Sea; they will rather damn than turn,