Influences of the life of grace

From the former,¹ follows patient silence, and an use of our submission to his Sovereignty who withdraws his influences from us, so as sinning follows thereupon: Hence there is a great abuse of repentance, which is bastard-repentance. We grieve at the fair work of the Lord's holy permissive providence, and are not humbled at our foul sinning, resulting by our own fault, from such a providence. See a Copy of a Law-sorrow (repentance I call it not) in Adam, before any Gospel was heard of, Gen. 3. 12. that, or, the woman whom thou gave (to be) with me, she [Greek or Hebrew] she gave me of the tree: There is an Emphasis in the Woman; The, or that Woman. 2. An Emphasis in the Lord's liberality; Thou gave her, by way of goodness and liberality; but I wish the Lord never had been good nor liberal in that kind.² 3. To be with me (as an helper, who now is a tempter.) 4. She (as the chief cause) gave me of the fruit, and I did eat. I repent (says he in sense) that thou was that graciously Good as to give me a tempter, but I am not grieved for my own sin in eating. So the common excuse; woe to the Providence that God sent such an unhappy counsellor to me; oh what had I to do there? So does Job repent in some respect in his weakness, not that he came in the world an heir of wrath, and a sinner, but ah the fatal and wrathful Decree of God, that ever I was born to such misery, Job 3. 3. Let the day perish, wherein I was born, Jerem. 20. 14. But the Lord willeth the Crucifiers of Christ to mourn that they [Greek or Hebrew] with wicked hands crucified and slew Christ: and yet Peter counsels them, Acts 2. 23. to submit humbly to the determinate Counsel and Fore-knowledge of God. Our deceitful hearts are readier to repent for the holy Events and Facts of divine Providence, then for our own sins, as if the holy Lord did err in his permissive providence, and we do not amiss in transgressing of an holy ⟨p. 38⟩Law;