Chapter IX.
Of another sort of dejection which produces despair of
salvation.
There
is, too, another still
more objectionable sort of dejection, which produces in the guilty soul
no amendment of life or correction of faults, but the most destructive
despair: which did not make Cain repent after the murder of his
brother, or Judas, after the betrayal, hasten to relieve himself by
making amends, but drove him to hang himself in despair.