The fifth reason is, lest man should be tormented by the pains of hell.
Job 20:18 || 1 Corinthians 3:13 || Hebrews 10:31 .
The sixth reason is, the difficulty of true repentance.
Job 18:8 || Lamentations 3:53 | Hosea 13:12 || Zechariah 5:7 .
The seventh reason is, the shame which men feel in confessing the circumstances of their sins.
Song of Solomon 1:13 || Jeremiah 3:3 | S. Luke 18:13 || Romans 6:21 .
176. Against those who put off confession or conversion.
Genesis 19:15 | 28:18 || Proverbs 3:28 || Ecclesiastes 12:1 || Wisdom of Solomon 6:14 | 16:27 || Lamentations 3:27 || Micah 7:1 || Zephaniah 2:14 || Ecclesiasticus 5:4 | 5:7 | 6:18 | 25:3 || S. Matthew 21:19 || S. Luke 13:6 .
177. That evil and impenitent men die before the time which GOD had otherwise appointed for them.
Genesis 20:7 || Job 22:16 , 17 || Psalms 55:25 | 78:33 || Proverbs 10:27 f
178. To the newly-converted.
Deuteronomy 21:12 || Jeremiah 4:3 | 7:29 || Ezekiel 5:1 || Ecclesiasticus 2:1 .
179. That those who are newly-converted are to be gently treated.
Genesis 33:13 || Isaiah 66:13 || S. John 12:2 || 1 Corinthians 3:2 || Gal. 6, 1 || 1 Thessalonians 5:14 || 2 Thessalonians 3:15 .
180. That we are not to presume at the beginning of our conversion.
Leviticus 12:4 l | 19:23 || Ruth 2:10 || 2 Samuel 10:5 | 14:33 || Job 4:18 | 9:15 ,20,30 || Jeremiah 3:12 || Daniel 9:18 || Ecclesiasticus 5:5 || S. Luke 7:38 | 10:39 | 15:19 | 18:13
