Now, if you find that yours is a counterfeit repentance, and you have not repented aright, mend what you have done amiss. This brings me to show wherein repentance consists. There is, as the schoolmen say, a twofold humiliation, or breaking of the heart. This is done by the law, which is a hammer to break the heart. The sense of abused kindness causes contrition.
Repentance works a change in the whole man.
When he becomes penitent, his judgement is changed, he looks upon sin as the greatest evil. Repentance causes a change of judgement. It metamorphoses the affections. Though repentance begins at the heart, it does rest there, but goes into the life. If the spring be corrupt, no pure stream can run from it.