. F — The Doctrine of Repentance

rugged morole diſpoſition, of higher ſpirits, and are not eaſily brought. to

o0p; theſe muſt have greater humilia-

tion: As aknotty piece of timber mult

have greater wedges driven into it, *

2. Some have beet more hainous offen-

ders, and ſuitable to their fin muſt therr

ſorrow be. ' Some Patients have their”

ſores let out with aneedle, others with

a launce. Flagitious ſinners muſt be

more bruiſed with the hammer of the

Law. 3. Some are defigned and cut out

for higher ſervice, to be eminently in- ſtrumental for God ; and theſe muſt haye

_ amightitr work of humiliation paſs pon THY 4% 3s TE : . REM,

them. 'Suchas God intends to be Pillars in his Church, muſt be more hewn. Paul "the Prince of the Apoſtles, who was to be Gods Enſign-bearer, to carry his Name before the Gentiles and Kings*, was to have his heart more deeply launced by : ' . Repentance. ' | F- . 44.2, But how great muſt ſorrow for ſin be Q*!-2+ © 7n all e | ; e It -muſt be'as great as for any worldly Anfiw, i. "Joſs, | fi Turgeſcunt lumina fletu * Propert. Zach. 12. 10. They ſhall look on me whone they have peitced, and mourn as for an only Sor *. 2, Sorrow for fin muſt ſurpaſs * Plandu - worldly ſorrow. We muſt grieve more 4:2%per # for oftending God, than for the loſs of ns pro | dear relations, ſa. 22.12. In that day Chriſti of did the Lord cal to weeping, and baldneſs, to, Lip... k and girding with ſackcloth. . This was for | # | fin. But in caſe of the burial of the , | . dead, we find God prohibiting tears 4 * andbbaldneſs *: Tointimate that ſorrow, * Jer: 22: 3 for fin muſt exceed ſorrow at the grave3{; we by F and good reaſon, for in the burial ofthe * 7 dead, -it is only a friend departs, but in fin God departs. "Is > . -Z; Sorrow tor fin ſhould be-ſo great.as to ſwallow upall other ſgrrow. As when 28, C3 the

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4. Weare to find as much bitterneſ: in weeping for lin, as. ever we found ſweetne(s in committing1t. , Sure David

! found more bitterneſs in .Repentance,

than ever he found comfort in Bath-

5, Our ſorrow for fin muſt be ſuch as makes us willing to let go thoſe ſins which ' brought in the greateſt income of profit or delight. Then thePhyfick hath been {trong enough, when it hath purged-out the diſeaſe: And then a Chriſtian hath arrivedat a ſufficient meaſure of ſorrow, when the love of {in is purged out.

6 Godly forrow in ſome caſes 18 joyn- ed with reltitution. * Whoſoever hath

wronged others in their eſtate, by unjuſt

fraudulent dealing, ought in conſcience to make them recompence, There 1s an exprels Law for this, Numb. 5. 7. He ſball

recompence his treſpaſs *, with the principal thereof, and give it unto him againſt whom he

bath treſpaſſed. Thus Zachews, Luk. 19.8. If Thave wronged any man by falſe atcuſa-

ac" $702 *, I reſtore him jour-ſold. When, $e/y-

the great-[Turk lay upon his death- IE [bed,

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that, wealth he had wronged the Perſian Merchants of, upon charitable uſes, he commanded, it ſhould rather be ſent back | to the right owners*. Shall not a Chriſti- —_— ans Creed be better than a Turks Alcoran, "M 'Tisa bad ſign when a man on his death-

bed bequeaths, his ſoul to God, and his 11]-gotten goods tro his friends. T can

hardly think: God will receive his ſoul. , | -4uſtin faith, without, reſtitution, no remiſ- on 6 won*. And it wasa ſpeech of old Latimer, peccatum, if ye reſtore not' goods unjuſtly gotten, — ye ſhall cough in Hell. | ' lam, «Þ

I. : But ſuppoſe a perſon hath wronged ano- Queli. 1. 1 ther in his eftate, and the party wrouged be : dead. what ſhall he do in this caſe?

\. Let him reſtore his ill-gotten goods to that mans heirs and ſucceſſors. Qu. But what if none of them be living ® Anſw. Let him reſtore to God that is, let him put his unjuſt gain into Gods treaſury by re- lieving the poor, _ |

. 2+ But what if the party who did the wrong Quelt. 2. '— er RIN os

Then they who are his heirs ought to Anbv.

make reſtitution, Mark what I fay, if there. be any who have eſtates left them; .and they know that the parties wm 4

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who

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who left their eſtatesdid defraud others, and died with that guilt upon them, then the Heirs or Executors who poſleſs thoſe

; - Eſtates, are boundin conſcience to make 1. reſtitution, elſe uy entail the curſe of Ye |

God upon their fam