Book III, 51: On Confession

Experience tels, That Agues are about
To weare away, when as our Lips breake out:
In Spirituall Fevers, there's the same expression
Of Health, when lips breake forth into Confession:
But mark: These hopefull Symptomes never doe
Confirme the Ague gone, but faire to goe:
They doe not alwayes worke, what they portend;
Confession profits not, unlesse we mend.