The Doctrine of Repentance

^*Spiritual sorrow will sink the heart, if the pulley of faith doth not raise it. As our sin is ever before us; so Gods Promise must be ever before us. As we must feel our sting; so we must look up to Christ our brazen Serpent^*. Some have had their faces so swelled with worldly grief, that they could hardly look out of their eyes. That weeping is not good which blinds the eye of faith. If there be not some dawnings of faith in the soul, it is not humiliation, but despair.

^*Spiritual sorrow will sink the heart, if the pully of faith doth not raise it. As our sin is ever before us; so Gods Promise must be ever before us. As we must feel our sting; so we must look up to Christ our brazen Serpent^*. Some have had their faces so swell'd with worldly grief, that they could hardly look out of their eyes. That weeping is not good which blinds the eye of faith. If there be not some dawnings of faith in the soul, it is not humiliation, but despair.

1. *Flevit Petrus quia culpa ob repsit ei; commune quod labitur, fidei quod flevit. Ambrose.
2. *Illi Evangelicè resipiscunt, qui peccati aculeo apud se exulcerati, fiduduciâ autem misericordiae Dei erecti, ad Dominu• confugiunt. Zanchy.

4. Godly sorrow is a great sorrow, Zach. ¹12. 11. In that day there shall be a great mourning, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon