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Christ speak for you, break your hearts with sorrow for sin soundly. For the Lord’s sake no not cozon yourselves: It is not only the tears of the eye, but the blood of your heart your sins must cost, and till you come to this, never think your sorrow is good. This sorrow consists, not in a bare rending of garments, or change of apparrel, or denying themselves those outward ornaments, as some people of late days do foolishly conceive, who had been filled with desperate hypocrisy, having left all here, and gone no farther; but you must break off your hearts, wound yourselves here, and be driven into amazement for sin, or else it will live with you here and in hell too: O therefore, when God begins to work, follow the blow, and with the prophet David, Psal. xxiii 2. Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Get your consciences wounded, and resolve not to hear the counsel of carnal friends. Go thou and lie at God’s footstool and confess thy sins before him, for it is he that confesseth and forsaketh all shall find mercy, and where there is this true and hearty confession, there must needs be a godly sorrow for sin.
