ward : So that a man before was "failing Hell-ward, the contrary wind of *\the Spirit blows, and turns his courſe, Hand cauſeth him to ſail Heaven-ward.
” : Ehryſe oſtom ſpeaking of the Ninjvites Re-
tance, faith, that had a ſtranger who:
had ſeen Ninevebr excel; s, gone after they repented it& the City, it was ſo meta» | morphoſed andreformed, that he would | ſcarce have believed it was the ſame Ci- ' ty:"\Such a viſible change doth Repen- | rance make in a perſon, as if another ſoul $ did lodge inthe ſame body *. Now,that * Ego non
the turning from ſinbe rightly qualified, PO _ theſe'few things are requiſite.
1. It mult bea turning from fin with rt. the heart : the heart is the primum vi\ff vens, the firſt thing that lives, and 1t muſt be the primum vertens, the firſt thing that turns. T he heart 1s that the Devil doth moſt ſtrive for. Never did he ſo ſtrive bs the body of Moſes, as he doth for the art of man: in Religion the heart 1s
| all : if the heart be not turned from fin, - Irisno better thana lye, Fer. 3. 10. Her
treacherous Siſter Tudab, hath not tuned to ave with the mw beart, but feignedly + or as the Hebrew, i a he *. Fudab did make "p03 1 a ſhew of Reformation, ſhe was not ſo a _
grofly
_ 2he DoBtrine of Repentance. TOR
grofly idolatrous as the ten Tribes 3 yet, Fudah was worſe than Iſrael ; ſhe is cal- | led treacherows Judah ſhe pretended to a reformation; but it was not in truth z her heart was not for God; ſbe turned not with the whole heart, "Tis odious to A __ A _ Ki turning from * Towm cor yult Deus, f{1n, yet the hgeart-1s in league cate Venerl Tie vens With it *. I have read of tri datury illi ſuffurari of our Saxon Kings who was paricur, Cornel. Lap. ÞF,2vtized, that in*+ the ſame [Church he had one Altar for the Chri- * canbdex. ſtian Religion,another for the Heathen®, "9 God will have the whole heart turned f. om ſin. True Repentance muſt have no reſerves or inmates. 2. It muſt be a turning from all ſin, Ta.55+-7. Let the wicked forſake his way, A real penitent turns out of the road of. ſin; every fin is abandoned : As Jehw would have all the Pricſts of Baal tlain, not one mult eſcape, 2 King, 10. 24. $0 | fs mY _ _— EO of & every luſt ; he knows how dangerous it | nad ood ie "Cao kinhes |
wm non * 1s to entertain any onelim*, He t
pore 1©3= one reþcl in his houſe, 154 traitor to the
Regnum, *CroWn3 and-he that: indulgeth one fin, Bers - 18.4 tralterous Hypocnte. — _ .,.
'3- , 3+ 1t muſt be aturning Gom ſin-upon
| b + a ſpirt-
| _ 5 C38 > N o » 4 F X ; oa PO . q PS 4 , a ” - 5 = vom £ s oy . . - "> _— 1 S " WS. p . a - "; : 4 - q -) . F , * = The Nottrine. of Repentance.
aſpiritual ground, . A man may reſtrain the ads ofifin, yet not turn; from fin ina right mannet. Ads of fin may be reſtrain- et} out of fear, or deſign z-but a right Penitentiary turns from ſin out of a relj- gieus principle, and that is; love to God. Af-fih did not bear. ſuch bicter fruit, 1f death <1d not. '\grow on this-tree, yet a gracious {foul would forſake 1t out of jeve to God: -Fhis 1s the molt kindly -turning from fin. When things are frozen and egngealed, the belt way to ſeparate them is by fire : When men and their fins are congealed together, the belt way to ſeparate them, is the fire of love. Three ak ing one another what madethem leave mn, | l{in;faith one,I think of the joys ofHeavenz y. faith another, Trhink of the forments of * of. Hel! 3 but faith the third, ] think of the, iu love of God, and that makesmeforfake in, Þ ic? How ſhall I offend the God of love? SO | 4. It muſt be ſuch a turning from fin, 4s off as turns unto God. This is in the text, © 1th That they ſhould repent and turn unto God *, Not" 3 des | Turning from ſir, is like the pulling the vnoceiles © the Arrow out of the wound; turning to eds lin, | God, is like the pouring in of the Ballom. jog. © Weread in Scripture of a Repentance —* on from dead works, Heb. 6. 1.* and a Repen- Nos I IIl- F 2 tance 2
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68 .The DoB®rint of Repemtance.
* *Terminus tance towards God, AF.20.21. * Unſound a0 Qin hearts pretend to leave old fins, but they do not turn toGod, or embrace his ſer-
vice. *Tis not enough to forſake the
Devils quarters, but we muſt get under
Chriſts banner,and wear his colours. The repenting Prodigal did not only leave
his Harlots, but did ariſe and go to bis
Father. It was Gods complaint,Hoſ. 7.16.
They return, but not to the moſt High. In
true Repentance the heart points diredt-
Y ly ” God, asthe Needle to the North-
ole.
Jo ; 5. Thetrue turning from (ins ſuch a turn,as hath no return, Hoſ.14.8. Ephraits ſhall jay, what have I to do any more with
* Veraeft Tdols © The tyriaking fin muſt be like penirentia the ſorſaking ones native foil, never to guandoa- turn moretoit. Some have ſeemed to
liquis con- vertitur, be converts. and to havc turned from fin,
wereicur, 3
Ee: again*, This is a returning #0 folly *. It -, * Irriſor 16 eſt 'non by s