Sorrow for Sin must be in particulars. [ 1623]
PHysitians meeting with diseased bodies, when they find a generall distem∣perature, they labour by all the art they can to draw the humour to ano∣ther place,* 1.1 and then they break it, and bring out all the corruption that way; All which is done for the better e••se of the Patient: Even so must all of us do, when we have a general and confused sorrow for our Sins,* 1.2 labour as much as may be to draw them into particulars; as to say, In this and in this, at such and such a time, on such an occasion, and in such a place I have sinned against my God; For it is not enough for a Man to be sorrowful in the general, because he is a Sinner; but he must draw himself out into particulars, in what manner, and with what Sins he hath displeased God, otherwise, dolus latet in generalibus, he may deceive his own Soul.