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is not only the tears of the eye, but the blood of the heart, your sins must cost; and till you come to this, never think your sorrow is good. This sorrow consists, not in a bare rending of garments, or change of apparel, or denying themselves those outward ornaments, as some people of late days do foolishly conceive, who had been filled with desperate hypocrisy, having left off here, and gone no further; but you must break off your hearts, wound yourselves here, and be driven into amazement for sin, or else it will live with you here and in hell too. O! therefore, when God begins to work, follow the blow, and say with the Prophet David, Psalm xxiii. 2. Our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until that he have mercy upon us. Get your consciences wounded, and resolve not to hear the counsel of carnal friends. Go thou and lie at God's footstool, and confess thy sins before him, for it is he that confesseth and forsaketh all, shall find mercy; and where there is this true and hearty confession, there must needs be a godly sorrow for sin.
To provoke you to it, let me leave you two or three motives.
1. Consider it is not a vain thing that you are exhorted to, but that upon which
