But that in which they more especially differ is, in that saving repentance contains in it a sense of the filth, and odious nature of sin, and so considers it as defiling, or contrary to the holiness of God, and rendering the soul worthy to be abhorred by him; so that as the sense of guilt excites fear, and a dread of the wrath of God, this fills him with shame, confusion of face, and self-abhorrence, which is inseparably connected with the grace of repentance; accordingly these are joined together, as Job says, _I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes_, Job xlii. 6. or, as when God promises that he would bestow this grace on his people, he says, _Then shall ye remember your own evil ways, and your doings, that were not good, and shall loathe yourselves in your own sight, for your iniquities, and for your abominations_, Ezek. xxxvi. 31. As before this they set too high a value upon themselves, and were ready to palliate and excuse their crimes, or insist on their innocence, though their iniquity was written in legible characters, as with a pen of iron, and the point of a diamond, and to say with Ephraim, _In all my labour they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin_, Hos. xii. 8. or, as the prophet Jeremiah says, concerning a rebellious people, that _though in their skirts were found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents_; yet they had the front to say, _Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me_, Jer. ii. 34, 35. Notwithstanding, when God brings them to repentance, and heals their backslidings; they express themselves in a very different way; _We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covers us; for we have sinned against the Lord our God_, chap. iii. 25. Now this is such an ingredient in true repentance, which is not to be found in that which falls short of it: the sinner is afraid of punishment indeed, or, it may be, he may be filled with shame, because of the reproach which attends his vile and notorious crimes in the eyes of the world; yet he is not ashamed, or confounded, as considering how vile he has rendered himself hereby, in the eye of an holy God.