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are yet behind, we caxnot tell. Our black © and Hideous Vapours having aſcended , w@® may fear loud Thunder-claps ſhould follow x and will not all this bring us to our wits, and excite in us a Spirit of humiliation? Shall we ſleep on the top of the Maſt when the | winds are blowing from all the quarters of »" Heaven f O let not the Apple of our eye & * Lam. Ceaſe *. Iwill not launch forth anyfuurt

2-13. 7» @ Prefatory Diſcourſe, but that God would add a bleſfing to this work , and ſo dired this arrow, that though ſhot at rovers, it may hit the mark, and ſome ſin may be ſhot to death, | ſhall be the ardent prayer of him, who #s

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Boom | REPENTANCE.

Acts 26,120.

That they ſhould repent = turn to God, and do works meet for Repentance.

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A Preliminary Diſcontſe, together with the Propoſition.

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Paul proves himſelf to be an Oratour. | He courts the King, 1. By his Geſture; He firetched forth his hands, verſ. 1, as the cuſtom of Oratours was. 2. By his man- ner of ſpeech, ver. 2. I think my ſelf hap King Agrippa, becauſe F ſhall anſwer for my elf before thee, touching all the things where- of I am accuſed.

Paul treats of three things, and that in ſo deepa {train of Rhetorick, as he had - almoſt converted King Agrppa. m. |

I. He diſcourſeth of the manner of his life before his converſion, ver. 5. after the moſt ſtrait" Sef# of onr Religion, I lived a Phariſee. During the time of his unrege- neracy, he-was zealous for Traditions; and his falſe fire of zeal was fo hor, thar it ſcorched all that ſtood in his way,ver.10, Many of the Saints I ſhut up in priſon.

2, Pawi diſcourſeth of the manner of | his converſion, ver. 13, 1 ſaw in the way a | light from Heaven, above the brightneſs of the \| 8xn. This light was no other but what | ſhined from Chriſts glorified body : 4nd | I heard a voice ſpeaking nnto me, Saul, Saul, | . » why perſecuteſt thou me? The body being |

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art thon Lord? and he ſaid, I am Feſws whont thox perſecnteſt.ver,1 5. Paul was now taken off from himſelf ; all opinion of ſelf-righ- teouſneſs vaniſhed, and he did graft his

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3. Paxl diſcourſeth of the manner of his life after his converſion : He who be- fore was a perfecutor, now became a Preacher, ver. 16. Ariſe, for I bave ap- feared wnto thee, to make thee a Miniſter, and a Witneſs, of thoſe things which thou haſt favingly wrought upon, he laboured to #47 | do as much good as before he had done hurt. Before, he perſecuted Saints to death, now he preacheth ſinners to life. God firſt ſent him tothe Jews at Damaf 9, and afcerwards enlarged hiscommi(- fion to preach to the Gentiles. And the

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_ I ſhall not diſpute the Priority, whe- ther Faith or Repentance goes firſt ; doubtlefs Repentance ſhews igfelf firſt tm a Chriſtians life; yet I aW apt to. ___. Þ 3 | think

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think the ſeeds of Faith are firſt wrought * Nonpo- jn the heart *. As when a burning Taper. rt; brought into a room, the hight ſhews 16 ſerio pee niere, nf {elf firſt, but the Taper was before the <6 le light: So we ſee the fruits of Repen-

Zanchy, tance firſt, but the initials of Faith were there before. "

Faith is ſeminally in the heart before Re-

entance, 1s this, becauſe Repentance =—_ a grace, muſt be acted by one that is living. Now, how doth the ſoul.live but by Faith? Heb. 10. 38, The juſt ſhall

firſt tome ſeeds of Faith in the heart of a

— —_— penitent, *elſeit is a dead Repentance,, fdegipni- 30d ſo of novalue. UN tur. My/- Put whether Faith or Repentance go clus. firſt, ſure I am, Repentance is of fuch im-, ' portance, as there is no being ſaved without it. After Paxls ſhipwrack, he