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Conscience with the Power and Cases Thereof
Conscience with the power and cases thereof Divided into V. books. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latin into English, for more public benefit.Conscience with the power and cases thereof Devided into V. bookes. Written by the godly and learned, William Ames, Doctor, and Professor of Divinity, in the famous University of Franeker in Friesland. Translated out of Latine into English, for more publique benefit.
Leiden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639Leyden and London : Imprinted W. Christiaens, E. Griffin, J. Dawson, Anno MDCXXIX 1639
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7. Answer, First a grief for sin in respect of the offence done to God by them, and not only in respect of punishment; the reason is because repentance doth turn a man from sin as it is sin, now it is sin as it doth transgress the revealed will of God, and so offendeth him, and provokes him to anger. This grief ought to be the greatest of all grief, Zach. 12. 10, 11. At the least intellectively, in regard of the displeasedness of the will, although in respect of the sense other griefs may sometimes appear more vehement. Grief, or sorrow is an offence of the soul, arising from hence that it suffereth something which it abhors as being a thing whereby it feels it self to be hurt. Grief therefore for sin doth necessarily accompany true conversion, for the mind while it converts it self from sin, beginneth to nill sin, or to abhor it, It perceiving therefore that somewhat sticks to it which it doth abhor, cannot choose but be troubled. ⟨p. 21⟩And because the chief reason why the converted soul doth abhor sin, is that repugnancy which sin hath to the will of that God, to which the soul being converted is now joined, hence it is, that grief for sin if it be right ariseth rather from this ground, because God is thereby offended, then because any misery is brought upon our selves.
7. Answer, First a griefe for sin in respect of the offence done to God by them, and not onely in respect of punishment; the reason is because repentance doth turue a man from sinne as it is sinne, now it is sinne as it doth transgresse the reveal'd will of God, and so offendeth him, and provokes him to anger. This griefe ought to be the greatest of all griefe,