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THe Mother of Peter Lombard must needs be in a great strait,* 1.1 when having transgressed her Vow of Continency, she told her Confessour plainly, That
when she saw what a Son she had brought forth, she could not repent, that she had sinned in having him; A hard condition! but her Confessour sadly answer∣ed her, Dole saltem quòd dolere non possis, be sorry at least that thou canst not be sorry: And the like may be said to every troubled Soul, that crying out for comfort, saith; you tell me Heavenly things of Repentance, What power a Religious sorrow hath, that God himself is pleased therewith, but Wretch as I am, I cannot sorrow; If one should tell me that all the joyes of Heaven were to be bought for one single tear, VVhat is that to me if I cannot shed it? VVell, for thy comfort; If thou findest but so much impression made as to grieve re∣ally, that thou canst not grieve; know that thou art already come to a degree of that, which thou grievest thou art not come to; thy very being sorry that thou canst not be sorry is in some measure a true godly sorrow for Sin.
Bryan Duppa ••. Sarum; A Sermon at the Isle of Wight▪ 1648.