Every Man to find out the impediments of Repentance in himself. [ 1617]
THey who have Water running home in Conduit-pipes to their houses, as soon as they find a want of that which their Neighbours have in abun∣dance,* 1.1
Kaina kai palaia Things new and old, or, A store-house of similies, sentences, allegories, apophthegms, adagies, apologues, divine, morall, politicall, &c. : with their severall applications / collected and observed from the writings and sayings of the learned in all ages to this present by John Spencer ...
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by and by they search into the causes, run to the Condui••-head, or take up the pipes to see where they be stopt, or what is the defect, that so they may ••e supplyed accordingly: Even so must every Man do, when he finds that the Grace of Repentance flowes into other Mens hearts, and hath no recourse or ac∣cesse into his Soul, by and by sit down and search himself, what the cause should be,* 1.2 where the Remora is that stayes the course, where the rub lyes which stop∣peth the grace of Repentance in him, seeing they that live (it may be) in the same house, sit at the same Table, lye in the same bed, they can be penitent for their sins, sorry that they have offended God, and so complain in bitternesse of Soul for their Sins; but he that had the same means, the same occasions, more sins to be humbled for, mor•• time to repent, and more motives to draw him to the duty, is not yet moved with the same, nor any way affected with the sense of Sin, this must needs be matter of high concernment to look about him.
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* 1.1
Nehem. Ro∣gers pra••tical ca••ec••ism.
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* 1.2
In tribunal mentis tuae ascende contra te, et reum te constituito a••∣te te, &c. Aug. de utilit. agend. poeni∣tent.