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If any man aske how he shall be sure not to take comfort too soone, I answer him:
That he must not bee bold to take any com∣fort, till he have gotten such a measure of sor∣row, and let sorrow con∣tinue so long in his heart, that it hath wrought him
to a plaine, and free, and full confession of his sins to God, and to a firme and stedfast purpose and determination of will, to leave, forsake and aban∣don them. And when he hath brought himselfe to this, then must hee mixe his sorrow with some comfort, and after a while he must bid his griefes adew, and feed constantly and princi∣pally upon comforts, renewing his griefes at fit times and seasons (as it were dipping in some sharpe sauce to keepe him from surfeting) al∣waies
retaining an hum∣bled heart in the sight of sinne, but not alwaies a sad heart; for as the heart may be sad, and not humbled: so it may bee humbled and not sad.