2 Eranc®, © Jt reproves ſuch whaſg..turning:is as .: | : goodasno turning 3 who have one Dial « goes out of them, and. another: enter they turn from ſwearing.to. flandering, from profuſeneſs to covetouſneſs:*Like * a fick man that turns from atertian Ague | | to a quartan. Such turning will turn men to Hell. % Uſe 3. Let us in this ſkew our ſelves pent- : . Exhoit. tents.in turning from fin to God *.There oa are ſome perſons T have little hope: to cons=® . . | ” yerciur, Prevail with: Let the trumpet of the qui quod word {ound never fo ſhri]}, let threat- -— *nings be thundered out againſt them, Jet Plangi, ſome flaſhes of Hell fire be thrown in ned rur- -their faces, yet they will have the other lumplan— h garulcro Lame at fin. Theſe perſons ſeem to-be . non repe= Jike the Swine in the Coſpel, carrie® _ down by the Devil violently into the Sea; they will rather damn than turn, Jer. C. 5. They bold faſt deceit, they refuſe toreiurn: But if there be any candour « Og. or
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He who was an enemy will turn to be our © frrend : If God turn to us, the Angels. * are turned to us; we ſhall have their 1 tutelage and guardianſhip, P/al. 91. 11. If God turn to us, all things ſhall turnto our good; mercies and affiitions z we ſhall taſte honey at the end of the Rod, **. Thus we have ſeenthe ſeveral Ingredi- *«: ents otRepentance.
CHAP. V. Shewing the reaſons enforcing Repentaxce.
Proceed next tothe reaſons whioh do enforce Repentance. !
Reaſon 1. - x, From Gods ſoveraign command, "Act. 17.30. He commandeth men every wheretorepent. Repentance 1s not arbi-
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- ther we willrepentorno, but it is an in- —_ 5 <diſpenſible command *. God hath en- #yrex4 ated a Law inthe High Court of Hea- pnxe 4za4s yen, that no ſinner ſhall be ſaved but the Ecifletms. repenting ſinner 3 and he will not b##ak' his own Law. Thowgh all the on-
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cCOme not-near me. -W hat CONPIHNTON hath MM light with darknefſ? How can the righte- | ous God indulge him that goes on ſtill i "HH his tre'paſles? Exod. 23.7. 1 will not ju- ' frifie the wicked. peace with a ſinner before he repent, he ſhould ſeem to like and approve all that he hath done; he ſhould go againſt his own holine(s, *Tis inconfiftent with the {andtity of Gods nature topardon a ſinner while he is in the a of rebellion: ; 3. Sinners continuing in.impenitency, K 7 fare out of Chriſts contmiſſion': 'See His gp” commil(-
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