XIII

XIII

After he hath committed a sin, he ^rsorroweth and repenteth: yet this repentance hath two wants in it. First he doth not detest his sin, and his former conversation when he repenteth: he doth bewail the loss of many things which he once enjoyed: he crieth out through very anguish, and through the perplexities which God in his judgement layeth on him: yet for his life, he is not able to leave his filthy sin: and if he might be delivered, he would sin as before. ^sEsau wept before his father with great yelling & ⟨p. 8⟩crying, but after he was gone from his fathers presence he hated his brother, who had got his blessing, and in contempt of his father, chose him a wife against his fathers liking. Pharaoh, as oft as the Lord laid any calamity on him, ^the evermore desired to be delivered from it, yet afterward always he returned to his old bias again. Felix trembled before Paul: for all that he could not leave his covetousness, but even then he sought for a bribe. Secondly, the reprobate, when he repenteth, he can not come unto God, and seek unto him: he hath no power, no not so much as once to desire to give one little sob for the remission of his sins:⁴ if he would give all the world he cannot so much as give one rap at Gods mercy gate, that he may open to him. He is very like a man upon a Rack, who crieth and roareth out for very pain, yet cannot desire his tormentor to ease him of his pain. ^uCain would have been void of his trembling, but he could not ask pardon of his sin from his heart: neither could Saul, or Judas, or now can the Devil.

After he hath committed a sinne, he