The Doctrine of Repentance

5. Our sorrow for sin must be such as makes us willing to let go those sins which brought in the greatest income of profit or delight. Then the Physic hath been strong enough, when it hath purged out the disease: And then a Christian hath arrived at a sufficient measure of sorrow, when the love of sin is purged out.

5. Our sorrow for sin must be such as makes us willing to let go those sins which brought in the greatest income of profit or delight. Then the Physick hath been strong enough, when it hath purged out the disease: And then a Christian hath arrived at a sufficient measure of sorrow, when the love of sin is purged out.

Godly sorrow in some cases is joined with restitution. ^*Whosoever hath wronged others in their estate, by unjust fraudulent dealing, ought in conscience to make them recompense. There is an express Law for this, Numb. 5. 7. He shall recompense his trespass^*, with the principal thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed. Thus Zacheus, Luk. 19. 8. If I have wronged any man by false accusation^*, I restore him •our-sold. When Selymus the great▪ Turk lay upon his deathbed, ⟨p. 23⟩being moved by Pyrrhus to bestow that wealth he had wronged the Persian Merchants of, upon charitable uses, he commanded, it should rather be sent back to the right owners^*