SECT. IX.
The Difference between Godly Sorrow for Original Sinne and Actual.
FIrst, Repentance, or change of our minds and wils, is not strictly and properly for original sinne, because that was not actually committed by, us neither was it ever in our own single persons to have prevented it, yet in respect of sorrow, detestation, and self-abomination, so we are as much, if not more, to bewail our selves, than for actual sin.
Secondly, Again, In actual sins, there is this necessity in our repentance, That we do so no more, he only truly repents, that doth not commit those gross sins again, at least not habitually or customarily, as our Saviour said to one, Go thy way, and sin no more; but this will not hold in original sinne, we cannot say, we will have it no more within us, we cannot say, this Jebusite shall abide no longer within our borders, for we shall alwayes carry about with us this body of sinne.
And therefore in the third place, Original sinne and actual differ exceedingly in this, That actual sinne when pardoned, both the sinne itself, and it's guilt is removed, but in original sinne, though the guilt be removed in the godly, nei∣ther is it imputable to them, yet the sinne it self in some measure and power re∣maineth with us, as is more largely to be shewed in time; Onely you see some difference there is, in our sorrow and humiliation, between original and actual, yet not such, but that in respect of deep confession, and humble acknowledgement, both are alike; so that we cannot have any pardon of either without such con∣trite hearts, as the Scripture speaks of; and it is good to consider the grounds, why we ought to be greatly debased, and to lay our selves so low under this con∣sideration.