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it again, hemuſt needs fin againſt the il- Iaminations of the Spirit.

2. It reproacheth God, Jer.2..5. What zniquity have your Fathers found in me, that they are goxe from me? Hethat returns to fin, doth interpretatively -charge God with ſome evil. If a man put away his

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her. To leave God, and return to fin, 1s tacitly to aſperſe the Deity. God who hates putting away, Mal. 2. 16. hates thar he himſelf ſhould be put away, |

To returnto fin, gives the [Devil more + 4aihpigun a man than ever, Mat.12.43. When a man turns from fin, the Devil ſeems to be caſt out of him 3 but when he returnsto fin, here 1s the Devil entring into his houſe again, and taking pol- ſeſſion, and the laſt ſtate of that man is worſe than the firſt. When a priſoner hath broken priſon, and the Jaylour gets him again, he will lay ſtronger Irons upon him Hewho leaves off a courſe of (inning, doth as it were break the Deviispriſonz but if Satan takes him returning to fin,

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any more : and whoever 1s rhus turned from ſin is a bleſſed perſon, AZ. 3. 26. God having raiſed up his Son Jeſus, ſent hins to bleſs you, in turning every one of you from his iniquities. by Is turning from fin a neceſfary, In- redient in Repentance , then there is bat little Repentance to be fonnd.

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they are ſtill the ſame they were. Proud they were,-and fo they are iti]l, Like the beaſts in Noahs Ark, they went into the Ark unclean, and came out unclean. Men come to Ordinances 1mpure, and go away 1 og Though men haye ſeen ſo many changes without, yet there-4s no: change wrought within, 1/a. 9. 13. The people turneth not to him that ſumnteth. How ean they ſay they revent who do not turn? Are they waſhed in Jorday, who haveſtill their Leproſte upon their forehead? May not God a to the un- reformed, as once to Fphraim®*, Hep. 4.17. Ephraim is joyned to Idols, let him alone. $o, here is a man joyned to his drunkenneſs, and nncleanneſs, let 'him

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Mos 'Oſez. It reproves them T. Who are Uſe 2. -&af but ed z>and whoare theſe? KReproof. Such as turn in their judgement, but * — not in their practice 3 they cannot but *T* acknowledge that fin, ike Satwre, hath a bad aſpect and influence, and will weep . for fin,yet are ſo bewitched withit, that _ they have no power to leave it; their 7 F corraptions are ſtronger than their com- +. - + v#ctionvs: Theſe are halt-turned, i» 2aizp, | - 4/moſt Chriſtians, Act. 26. 28, They are W like Ephraim, whowasa * Cake bakedon Panislubs ot .one fide, and dough on the other, "'* 23 Hae 7. 8. — | ; They are but half-turned, who mirn 2. | only from groſs fin, but have no intrin- ſick work of grace. They do not prize . |- Chriſt. or love holineſs. *'Tis with civil "5 perſons, as with 7orah, hegota gourd to defend him from the heat of the Sun, and "2s be.cthought now he was ſafe, but a worns preſently ariſeth and devours the gourd. So men, when they are turned fromgroſs ſin, think their civility will be a gourd to defend them from the wrath of God , but at death there ariſeth the worm of conſcience and ſmites this gourd, and then their hearts fail, and they begin

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- They are bur half-turned, who turn from many fins, but are unturned from ſome ſpecial fin, There is an harlot in the boſom they will not letgo. As if a man ſhould be cured of ſeveral diſeaſes, but hath a canker in his breaſt, and' that kills him. (021 05 verb bpig} -Y