bee without this heate he that hath that Sun cannot be without this light When my great and enormous sinnes had plunged me into the sea of misery finding no other meane of helpe in that fearefull danger I catched vp and tooke hold of the planke or boordof Repentance to saue me from drowning Repentance hath two faces and so looketh two wayes backward and forward to sinnes past and holinesse to come I haue grieuously lamented my offences formerly done and importunately begged pardon for them accounting this remission because thou art pleased O God so to esteeme it my iustification I now earnestly craue a cleane heart and a new spirit that being clensed I may keep my selfe cleane that being renewed I may entertaine newnesse of life for my sanctification For if I fall againe vpon the same rock of presumption which caused my shipwracke before it will plainely appeare that I haue not really acted but formally counterfeited repentance in which case I must pronounce an heauie doome against my selfe for dissembled holinesse is double wickednesse wickednesse masking vnder the sinfull vayle and vizard of hypocrisie Repentance neuer attaines her Crowne and Garland till shee haue brought forth amendment of life after lamentation for sin to make some kind of reparation That which thou requirest of me O God is my heart and how can I deny thee one thing that hast giuen me all things for what haue I that I haue not receiued of thee Well then I resolue as it is meet to giue thee my heart But when I looke into my heart by the helpe of thy suruey for it is thou that declarest vnto man what and how ill his heart is I finde it so foule and full of corruption as I am ashamed to present it vnto thee in that plight Nay I tremble to thinke that thy Pure and Radiant Eyes should behold such a puddle and sincke of sinne as lurketh in my heart For alas euery imagination of the thoughts of my heart is onely euill continually Were my heart such as it should be I would cheerefully giue thee my heart O Lord therefore create in mee a cleane heart Thou madest my heart first in Adam hee marred it and I in him by disobedience from him to all his posterity the contagion of this pollution is spred and propagated wherefore create my heart againe create it a cleane heart either a cleane heart or no heart at all I affect purity of heart by thy grace for indeed I cannot so much as affect much lesse effect it without thee Vnlesse thou take the worke in hand it will be vndone My heart that is originally and totally vncleane by naturall generation and daily soiled by actuall transgression cannot become cleane and neate without spirituall washing and supernaturall regeneration and that is thy proper operation Seeke not to new make mould my defiled hart out of the forebeing matter thereof That may seeme a strange enterprize and fruitlesse worke But thou O God who by thy power madest the world of nothing by thy powerfull grace Create which is thy peculiar attribute a cleane heart within me To create is not to make a thing out of the power of any subiect or matter formerly being But to create is to make a thing of nothing and that is an act of diuine power that is a case excepted and a prerogatiue reserued to thee alone The production of grace in a gracelesse heart is a wonderfull and gracious creation Create in mee powerfully and of nothing without any 〈◊〉 matter create in me 〈◊〉 and for nothing without any precedent merit of mine a pure heart so 〈◊〉 thou crowne in mee not my deserts but thine 〈◊〉 gifts if ought proceed from my heart to my tongue or hand not displeasing vnto thee Worke this worke thy selfe and take the praise of it to thy selfe alone O God Not vnto mee not vnto me I doe iterate and ingeminate my disclaymer but vnto thy Name giue all the glory It is another manner of power to make the quality then the substance of the heart yea it is a harder taske to make a heart cleane that hath beene soiled with the filth and tainted with the putrifaction of sin then to make a pure and innocent heart at the first The more shall be my thankfulnesse if thou O Lord vouchsafe me so great a fauour I will not curiously enquire into the meanes or manner of atchieuing this worke Let me henceforth really finde by the imaginations and inclinations of it that it is a cleane heart conformed as it may be in the frailty of 〈◊〉 flesh 〈◊〉 thy holy 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all is well As a woman 〈◊〉 by the stirring of the 〈◊〉 in her wombe that 〈◊〉 hath conceiued so 〈◊〉 me feele by the effectuall motions of thy good 〈◊〉 that I am begotten anew vnto a liuely 〈◊〉 by the resurrection of Christ according to his abundant mercy The summe of all is Giue me O Lord what thou enioynest and then enioyne mee what thou pleasest I am of no ability to do what thou commandest and therefore am enforced to beseech thee thy selfe to do in me what thou requirest to bee done of me Create a cleane heart in me If my heart as the spring and conduit head be pure and cleane the waters that flow thence though conueighed in earthen pipes will be cleare still my secret thoughts my open words my visible workes though they sauour somewhat of earth and flesh will not be altogether vncleane and vnsauoury A man must bee twice borne ere he can enter into the kingdome of heauen As he is made to the similitude of the first Adam so must he be made to the similitude of the second Adam and the regeneration is a more excellent worke then the generation the re-creation then the creation In the first man was wrought out of clay in the other God workes grace out of sinne In the former he breathed a soule into the dead body here he breatheth his holy Spirit into a dead heart In the creation he made man perfect in all his members In this re-creation not only all the members of the body but the faculties of the soule also must be framed anew It is a greater matter to raise a man dead in sinne then to raise a rotten carkasse out of the graue In the one birth and the other the heart is the first 〈◊〉 that is enlyued my 〈◊〉 must first take fire 〈◊〉 can I neuer bee 〈◊〉 with the true zeale of 〈◊〉 glory and mine owne saluation In the first creation this 〈◊〉 Chaos and darke 〈◊〉 was couered by thy 〈◊〉 without any contradiction or resistance Thou spakest but the word and all was readily done and perfectly framed But in my re-creation my flesh or my spirit or my fleshly spirit doth oppose and incounter thy holy Spirit grieueth and maketh it sad laboureth to quench it euen then when it striueth to reuiue repaire and reforme me This is notoriously verified
skill and bestowe the most powerful perswasion I can deuise or find 〈◊〉 for the purpose I will tell them of my Soliloquie and the secret conference between me and my soule to this effect Though vnhappy man that I am I haue not alone slipped but falne and not falne onely but falne fouly too though I haue not onely done much euill carelesly but This Euill This Euill in Gods sight contemptuously This Euill which is a massie chaine of enormous iniquities nexed and linked together strongly binding and grieuously burthening my soule yet will I not doe worse or rather what is worst of all I will not still adde sinne vnto sinne I will not fill vp the full measure of my wickednesse with that horrible sinne of sinnes I will not stab my soule if I may so say with the deadly dagger of finall impenitencie for the depth of desperation is the height of impious abomination I will not wilfully wayue and scornefully reiect his general free and gracious Pardon proclaimed to all penitent sinners without any exception or limitation at all His benefits are infinite endlesse and inestimable therefore the Origen fountaine and well-spring of all these fauours graces and good-turnes is infinite vnmeasurable and farre surpassing all the compasse of mans vnderstanding But specially he loueth soules which are his by a manifold interest created by him when they were not saued by him when they were lost marked for his with the stampe of his owne Image Farre be it therefore from me to fall into that desperate resolution which of all other offences vpon earth doeth most exasperate his anger and doth depriue his diuine Maiestie of that most excellent propertie wherin hee chiefly delighteth and glorieth which is his infinite and vnspeakable mercie I am his workemanship his hands haue made me and fashioned me The workeman cannot chuse but bee fauourable to his owne worke especially so excellent and bountiful a workman as he is towards such a worke as man is framed to his owne shape and likenesse He is my Creator and thereby priuy to my frailety of how brittle and weake a metall I was made Hee is my Father which is the title of the greatest loue and coniunction that nature hath left to men in this world and therefore cannot but affect his child His diuine Maiestie is so earnest and vehement to giue assurance in this behalfe that being not contented to represent his loue vnto vs by the loue of a fathers heart hee goeth further yet and protesteth that his heart is more tender towards vs then the heart of any mother can bee to the onely child of her owne wombe Can the mother forget her owne infant if she could yet can I not forget or reiect thee Nay he is my heauenly Father who in this perfection of true fatherly loue so farre exceedeth all earthly parents put together as in power clemencie and goodnesse he surpasseth the infirmity of his feeble creatures and therefore his bowels and entralls of tender and endlesse mercy will be mooued I know in commiseration towards mee vnfaignedly returning vnto him Nay I haue yet a further claime and title to his gracious fauour compassionate mercy in that hee is not only my Creator and Father but my Redeemer also I know with holy Iob that my Redeemer liueth for I haue 〈◊〉 it by his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that 〈◊〉 will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hell nor suffer his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to see 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 this be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to the 〈◊〉 by the act 〈◊〉 execution and performance 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the fulnesse of time it will bee accomplished and acted to the admiration of all the earth and the amplification of his eternall glory Not his Sonne onely but his onely Sonne will take my nature vpon him become flesh of my flesh and bone of my bones will vouchsafe to bee borne of a Virgin descended of mine owne race and pedigree hee will conuerse vpon the earth in the similitude of sinfull flesh hee will in the nature and property of man not onely suffer hunger and thirst but also all manner of indignities affronts and disgraces hee will be content to be beaten and buffeted launced pierced wounded and crucified for mee and for my sake hee will shead his blood vpon the Crosse as a malefactor to satisfie Gods iustice and to purchase my freedome from hell and euerlasting damnation And sithence he hath in his immutable decree giuen him and will in his time apparently giue him to such a shamefull death for gayning me vnto him how should he not but with him giue all things else whatsoeuer I know and am assured that he who beleeueth in Christ to come hath as 〈◊〉 and full interest in his excessiue loue and this inestimable benefit as hee who shall beleeue in him when and after he is come The times must bee changed but it is and will bee one and the same faith yea and one the same obiect of faith in substance in all times His promises of pardon whereby he hath obliged himselfe to sorrowfull sinners are affectionate absolute and vniuersall First Whosoeuer shall depart from his wicked wayes turne vnto him shall bee receiued of him Secōdly At what time soeuer a sinner doth repent him of his sinne and turne to him his wickednesse shall not hurt him Thirdly If your sinnes were as red as scarlet they shall be made as white as snow How then can I mistrust my selfe to bee excluded from this assurance of mercy wherein all sorts of people all kinds of sinnes all times and seasons are comprehended His Loue that calls mee to repentance is inexplicable His Truth and certainty of promise is infallible His Power of performance is omnipotent and endlesse This threefold cord or rope which cannot bee broken bindeth mee fast to the barre of his mercy and will not suffer mee to slip away or start a side till I haue obtained full remission of all my sinnes Cain my vnhappy precedent in murther did more offend God by those words My sinne is greater then that I can hope for pardon then by all his former iniquities My confidence in this mercy is assured and my hope inuincible therefore I resolue though he kill mee yet to trust in him with holy Iob. I will tell such hopeles and retchlesse persons that my sinnes are set before them for caution my repentance for imitation that they which stand may warily looke to their footing that they fall not and they that haue 〈◊〉 may rise hopefully and speedily by 〈◊〉 and not ingulfe themselues into the depth of all detestable enormities specially the gulfe of desperation I will tell them that their vouching of my example to extenuate is an odious circumstance to aggrauate such sinnes as I haue committed So as he that shrowdes himselfe vnder this sinfull shaddow offends euen in that respect in a higher
slaine from the beginning of the world yet as a fruite of our repentance expects from vs a holy reuenge vpon our selues We must iudge our selues that wee bee not iudged and least our iudgements become fruitlesse and elusory We must put them in execution seuerely without pitty or partiality Let vs therefore preuent his face of Maiesty his countenance of Authority by confession wich confession is a profession of forsaking our former faults The Iudge we cannot the iudgement we may preuent if we take the opportunity and repent truly and timely of our sinnes thou wilt mercifully and graciously repent thee of the iudgements denounced doomed against vs. Therefore it be houeth euery man to keepe a Court at home and therin to sit as chiefe iustice to indict and arraigne himself at the barre of his owne conscience where he findes the fault there to inflict punishment In as much as at these Assizes the heart must needes be found the greatest offender because from the heart doth flow all vaine and sinfull imaginations all idle and wicked words all lewde and scandalous actions let him doe Iustice vpon his heart in the first place let him correct the pride of it by humiliation the wantonnesse of it by contrition the iolity of it by sorrow the stubornenesse of it by weeping the gluttony of it by fasting the couetousnesse of it by almes-giuing and so according to the rule of Physicke cure each contrary by his contrary affection The physicke must bee applied to that part of the body which is ill affected the salue laid vpon the place that is sore Where the sinne breedes swels there must the sinner cut and launce He must pricke his heart to the quicke and let out store of teares as the former and latter rayne As our hearts haue beene fatted and pampered as it were with sinne so they should grow leane and meagre againe by sorrow for sinne Looke how much the lesse I spare my selfe so much the more wilt thou spare me My repentance doth in a sort execute thy vengeance and with a temporall vexation doth preuent and auoide thine eternall damnation by casting me downe it lifts me vp by making me vgly in mine own it presents me pure in thine eyes by accusing it doth excuse by condemning it doth acquite me It is a kind of vnhappinesse to be seared and cauterized with an hot yron and fretted with an eating powder but those meanes and medicines which doe cure by sharpenesse and sowernesse by the benefit which they procure doe excuse their distastfulnes and by the succeeding profit do allay the present paine By sin thy spirit takes occasiō to increase grace not by the nature of sinne but by the soueraignety of that spirit which euen of sinnes makes a plaister against sin For I being as sicke of sorrow as of sinne may hopefully resort to thee the Physitian of my soule whose end of comming into the world is to cure the sicke especially such as feele themselues sicke enen at the heart I must breake my golden Calfe that is any idoll of sinne which my corrupt heart doth serue and worship I must burne it with zeale and with contrition grinde it to powder and then strowing it vpon the water of teares drinke it vp againe By this thy gracious meanes an Antidote will bee drawne out of poyson the oyle will cure the bitings of Scorpions the worme wil gnaw the wood the moth the cloth that bred it the very excrements of my sinfull soule like dung and mannor will fatten and make it fruitefull in goodnesse The hunted and wounded Hart by eating of an herbe knows how to helpe and heale himselfe and to make the arrow that pierced his ribbes to fall to the ground The Swallow when she hath put out the eyes of her young ones knowes by an herbe of her owne name how to restore their sight againe Thy herbe of grace the iuyce whereof is our repentance doth expell the fiery darts of Sathan shot by sinne into our soules and this eye-salue doth cause vs though neuer so much blinded with sinne to see both our error in committing and thy mercy in pardoning our offences The most powerfull rhetoricke to mooue thee to pitty is repentance and the most delightfull Musicke in thine eares is that dolefull ditty tuned to a trembling tongue and a quauering voyce peccaui in coelum c. Against thee against thee onely I haue offended The string bends the strongest bowe the fire mollifies the hardest steel the Goates blood breakes euen the Adamant I hope my harts humble and melting repentance will appease thy hottest and heauiest indignation conceiued against me The most worne and torne linnen by contusion and grinding in the Mill makes smooth and white paper Euen so my most base and rotten ragges of vanity and wickednesse by true contrition with thy benediction will produce a cleane heart and renew a right spirit within mee The corruption and consumption of the one will prooue the generation or regeneration of the other To sacrifice to kill are expressed by one and the same word in holy writ because euery sacrifice was slaine in thy Leuiticall lawe but this breaking of my heart and offering my body in sacrifice to thee is an Euangelicall sacrifice because therin which may seeme strange the sacrifice is slaine and yet liueth For it is my faith not my death which thou seekest thou thirstest for my holy desires not my polluted blood thou art appeased with my willingnesse to renounce the world not with my departure out of the world This was Abraham the Father of all thy faithfull ones his sacrifice which thou requiredst of him For what did Abraham but offer his owne body in his Son What didst thou require of him but his Faith who as thou diddest command his Sonne to be offered so thou wouldest not suffer him to be killed I hold it a wise and an aduantageous course in any man to dye to sinne that hee may liue to righteousnesse to mortifie the old man that hee may bee quickened in the new to dye daily that hee may liue eternally Wherefore I will dye that I may not dye I will wound my hart with temporary contrition that I may auoyde the deadly wounds of 〈◊〉 who desires my euerlasting destruction I will liue a dying life that I may not dye a 〈◊〉 death For thy sake are we killed all the day long and right deare in thy sight is this death of thy Saints Here I can bee contented to stirre vp an holy emulation betweene those that thus dye and such as are stoned burned or otherwise done to death for defence of thine honor and testimony of thy trueth who by excellency are termed Martyrs These dye but once and at once their paine is soone past but the other dye a lingering death they dye daily and continually It is accounted a mittigation of cruelty and a
Ut liberiùs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ignorant Bern. de grad humi Nemo est 〈◊〉 insanabilior qui sibi sanus 〈◊〉 Greg. in 〈◊〉 Initium salutis notitia 〈◊〉 Qui peccarese nescit corrigi non vult 〈◊〉 Frustrà medicantis auxilium expectat qui valnus non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Non 〈◊〉 scire quo modo morbos curare conueniat qui vnde hi sunt ignorat Cornel. Cels. de Re 〈◊〉 lib. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coelo descendit c. Gen 6. Chrysol Rectum index sui 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gen. 4. Peccatores somniantibus similes Ioan. Her Insepulta sepultara Peccata non nocent si nō placent August de temp Job Meum cognoscere Meum agnoscere Tuum ignoscere August Explorandum 〈◊〉 Implorandum 〈◊〉 Syst. Omne sub regno grauiore regnum est 〈◊〉 Chrysol Fac illum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quem 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysol Chrysost. Confessio peccati est professio desinendi Hilar. Seneca Reatus redundat ad iudicem si Poena percellat innoxium Chrysol 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nisi homini Deus placuerit Deus non erit Homo iam Deo propitius esse 〈◊〉 Tertul Apolog. Peccatum poena peccati causa peccati Aug. contra Iuli. 〈◊〉 Chrysost. Aug. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sapiens 〈◊〉 Deus est 〈◊〉 fractumnon recipiet 〈◊〉 Bernard de gradib obed Iob 36. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meretur quà m amicum simuans inimicus 〈◊〉 de Conuers cap. 27. Tota vita honi Christiani est sanctum desiderium Aug. in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 tota posita est in voluntate faciendi bona Lact. 〈◊〉 l. 6. Melius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 auri 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Cantic Nec vinum 〈◊〉 etsi fecem habeat 〈◊〉 aurum quamuis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Voluntas pro facto 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ep. 77. 〈◊〉 Iuris Res mira ille viuit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 homicida Illa casta tu tamen 〈◊〉 Aug. de verb. Dom. Nisi fortè putetur in 〈◊〉 quà m in bono c. Nos etsi 〈◊〉 minus diligimus quá 〈◊〉 diligimus 〈◊〉 qu 〈◊〉 valemus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vt à 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vnde amplius diligamus 〈◊〉 Epist. 85. 〈◊〉 5. 6 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 14 21 30. Mal. 1. 14. Leu. 14. 22 30 31 32. 2. Cor. 8. Quic quid vis non potes 〈◊〉 Deus reputat Aug. Gen. 4. Si 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ea quae 〈◊〉 merita nostra sunt spei quaedam seminaria bernard de 〈◊〉 lib. arbit Si non dilexisset 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 amicos Sicut nec quos 〈◊〉 essent si non dilexisset qui nondū erant Bern. in Cant. 20. Qu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 inuenit neminem saluat nisi quem 〈◊〉 idem de 〈◊〉 li ber a. b 〈◊〉 10. Arra potius quà m 〈◊〉 quia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 arra 〈◊〉 August de 〈◊〉 Apost Pignus donum est verbo 〈◊〉 vt Iureconsulti nec potest esse sine pacto pignus Ipse vt diligeretur dedit qui non dilectus dilexit Aug. in Joan. Psa. 119. 6. Psal. 64. Psal. 32. Psal. 32. 11. Cathedram in Coelo habet 〈◊〉 docet August Sol non omnes quibus lucet etiam calesacit Sic sapientia 〈◊〉 quos docet 〈◊〉 sit facien dum non 〈◊〉 accendu ad 〈◊〉 Bern. in Cant. Non 〈◊〉 sapientem sed timor facit quia afficit Grego Nunquam nimis dicitur quod nunquam satis dicitur Lingua sequitur dentem dolentem Vbidolor ibidigitus Ex. 12. 22. Leu. 14. 6. Num. 19. Prouerb Vermis non homo Omnis 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cyrill Hug. Card. Lorin in Psal. 51. Iob 9. 30. Ier. 13. 23. Esay 1. Reuel 7. Esa. 63. Num. 12. Nulla vxor proprio marito deformis 〈◊〉 Nigra formosa Cantic 1. 5. Potest esse radix sine 〈◊〉 stipes sine fructu sed nec stipes nec fructus sine radice Mat. 9. 2. Psal. 35. 3. 〈◊〉 antequam nati Bern. Iob 15. 16. 〈◊〉 redditur arra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Bernard Gaudium in praesenti exhibitione Gaudium in futurâ expectatione Et res plena gaudio 〈◊〉 Idem Gaudium in fine sed gaudium sine fine Bernard Iob 15. 35. Esa. 57. 20. Psal. 4. Cùm de transitorijs 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 non poterit non transire laetitia 〈◊〉 ijs de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ignis 〈◊〉 de Temp. Exod. 7. 〈◊〉 Psal. 32. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Deut. 32. Psal. 23. Psal 27. 8. Duo nomina Homo Peccator August Chrysol Chrysol Chrysol August in Psal. 103 〈◊〉 a diligentis Leuit. 〈◊〉 1. Sam. 15. Simulata aequitas non est aequitas sed duplex iniquitas quia 〈◊〉 simulatio August in Psal. 63. Amos 4. Psal. 115. 1. Cor. 15. Primum 〈◊〉 Arist. Psal. 42. Psal. 84. Psal. 1 39. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 13. 1. 〈◊〉 31. 3. Semel 〈◊〉 semper 〈◊〉 Mulier soetum conceptum non semper molitantem 〈◊〉 vbi tamen semel iterum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 se esse non ambigit Spin. de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1. Pet. 1. 23. Tertull. de poenit Quid boni sanitas habet languor ostendit Hier. Gratior est reddita quā retenta sanit as Post tempestatem dulcior serenitas Quint. Desiderata dulcius obtinentur August de Verb. Dom. Quoniam ob bona 〈◊〉 gratias Deo non agimus necessaria nobis est priuatio vt quid habutrimus sentiamus Basil. Plus sensimus quod habuimus postquam habere desinimus Hier. in Consol. 1. 〈◊〉 5. 16. Rom. 8. 15. Ex. 13. 13. Onerat nos Deus 〈◊〉 quando 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aug. in Ps. 〈◊〉 iniquorum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quia tales 〈◊〉 Bonum naturá sui diffusiuum Naturalis opus viuen gignere sibi simile Arist. Homines malunt exempla quā verba 〈◊〉 act 〈◊〉 ver sap Validior 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quà m oris oratio Greg. Regis ad exemplum nec sic inflectere 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 edicta valent ac vita regentis Claud. Habent opera suam linguam Author de dupl martyr Sinne of infirmity Rom. 6. Vitia catenata inter se. 〈◊〉 in lib. Sapient Sinne of presumption Volo te praesumere ne diffidas 〈◊〉 praesumere ne torpescas Bern. Ep. 87. Psal. Bernard Psal. 101. 1 Absit vt redundantia clementiae coelestis libidinem faciat humanae temeritatis Tertul. de poenit Prauicordis est ideò 〈◊〉 esse quia Deus bonus est Bern. in Cantic Qui 〈◊〉 poenitenti veniam non 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 August Psal. 34. 15 Psal. 2. 11. Sinne of Desperation 〈◊〉 1 3. Facilè impetratur quod filius 〈◊〉 Tertul. de 〈◊〉 Esa. 49. Tam pater nemo tam 〈◊〉 nemo 〈◊〉 depoenit Iob 19. 25. 〈◊〉 16. 1. Rom. 8. 31. 〈◊〉 variata 〈◊〉 non fides August in Psal. 51. 2. Cor. 6. Ezek. 18. Esa. 1. Gen. 4. August Job 13. 15. August in Psal. 51. August ibid. August in Psal. 51. Chrysost. in Psal. 51. Nec enormitas criminis nec extremit as temporis Inter pontem fontem Sera 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 vera Psal. 48. 1. 95. 3. 〈◊〉 2. Verse 9. Leuit. 7. 26 27. Psal. 3. 8. Psal. 95. Debitorem se fecit deus non accipiendo Sed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Augus Psal. 25. 10 Psal. 132. 11. Ezech. 33. 11. O nos soelicis quorum causd Deus iurat O nos 〈◊〉 si nec Deo c. Tertul. 〈◊〉 Quid retribuam Psal. 116. 12. Inuenit 〈◊〉 aliquid Aug. Iob 22. 2. 1 Cor. 4. 7. Psal. 103. 〈◊〉 cont Mar cio 〈◊〉 50. 〈◊〉 PP 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aug in 〈◊〉 Omnis quē poenitet rixatur secum Aug. in Psal. 33. Peccatores vindica 〈◊〉 exige de te poenas crucia teipsum c. Aug. in Psa. 140 Currat poenitentia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sententia Cbrys. In quantū tibi non peperceris in tantum tibi Deus parcet Tertul. de poenit Exod. 32. Tertul. de poeniten 〈◊〉 Nerue curuabitur arcus Igne Chalibs Adamas Sanguine corde Deus Mantuan Hostia 〈◊〉 ctatur viuit Crysol in 12. Rom. Sicut offerri iussit sic non 〈◊〉 occidi Chrysol Cyprian de dupl 〈◊〉 Genus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cito occidere Seneca Morsque minus poenā quam mora 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Maxim Eleg. Non Mar 〈◊〉 Sola sanguinis effusio consummat nec solam dat Palmam exustio illa 〈◊〉 Multi ducunt 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 Aug. Auth. de dupl Martyr Iob. 30. 29. August in Psal. Psal. 32. Esay 57. Esay 61. 3. Firmior est fides quam 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 de 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 5. Psal. 132. 14. Saluian Saluian Non Elegit 〈◊〉 sed c. Aug. Quare gratia quia gratis datur Quare gratis datur quia merita tua non 〈◊〉 sed beneficia Dei te 〈◊〉 Aug. in Psal. 30. Haue mercy vpon me O Lord c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. I know my 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Behold I was borne in iniquity c. Behold thou louest truth in the 〈◊〉 c. And in the 〈◊〉 of my heart c. Purge mee with Hysop c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and I 〈◊〉 be 〈◊〉 c. Make mee to heare of ioy c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sinnes c. Create in me a cleane heart c. Renew a right spirit within me c. Cast me not away from thy presence c. Take not thy holy spirit from me c. Restore vnto me the ioy of thy saluation c. Vphold me with thy free or firme spirit Then will I teach 〈◊〉 c. Deliuer me from bloud c. Thou God of my saluation c. I will sing aloud of thy righteousnesse c. O Lord open thou my lips c. The sacrifices of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. A broken and a contrite heart c. Be fauourable to Sion c. Build 〈◊〉 the walls 〈◊〉 Ierusalem c. For thy good 〈◊〉 c. Then 〈◊〉 thou accept c.