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7. Repentance i the in-let to ſpiritual lefliogs 5 it helps to enrich us with acez it cauſeth the defart to bloſſom as be Roſe * 5 1t makes the ſoul as the Egyp- in fields after the overflowing of Nzlws, puriſhing and fruitful, Never do the Owers of grace grow more, than after a nower of repentant tears. Repentance auſeth knowledge, 2 Cor. 3. 16. When ety beart ſhall be turngd io the Lord, the gil ſhall be taken away. The vail of igno- ance Which was drawn over the =

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epentance inflames love. Weep- ry Magdalen loved much, Luk, 7. 4.7. 30d preſerves theſe ſprings of ſorrow 1n he ſoul, to water the fruits of the pirit*. | 8. Repentance uſhers in temporal leffiogs. The Prophet Joe/perſwading ie people to Repentance, brings inthe omiſe of ſecular good things, 7oet 2. 2,1. Rent your heart, and not your gar- ent, and turn unto the Lord, and the Lord HI anſwer and ſay to his people, Behold 1 nd you Corn, and Wine, and Ogl. When e put water into the Pump, it fetcheth p only water 3 but when we pat the wa- Tr of teaus into Gods bottle, this fetcheth

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The Dodrine of Repentance. W/ fetcheth up wine. 7 will ſend you Wire and oyl. Sin blaſts the fruits of the earth! Hag. 1.6, Te have ſown auch, and bring | * Deuspu- 722 little *. But Repentance makes the V Pomgranate bud, and the Vine flouriſh fui, Lp, With full cluſters. Fill Gods bottle; An \ | he will fill your baſket, Job 22. 23.” thou return 10-the Almighty, won ſbalt lay u] gold as duſt. Repenting 1s a fcturning t ' God, and this brings a golden barveſ. F 9 9. Repentance ſtaves off judgements from aLand. When God is going to deſtroy a Nation, the penitent finger ſtaies his hand, as the Angel did '&bra- is ham's, Gen, 22.12. The Ninivites;R tiam revo» PEntance, cauſed God to *repent, J2# egvit exci- 3.10, God ſaw that they turned from thei roy We evilwaies, and God repented, &c. Anvut- ward Repentance hath adjourned,* anc kept off wrath. Ahab, who ſold himfelf ti work wickedneſs. yet upon his faſting and rending his garments, faith God to Blzab T will not bring the evil in his daies, 1 King 21. 25, If therending of the clothes.d1d keep off judgement from the Nation what will the rending of the heart-do: 10. Repentance makes joy in, Hea ven. The Angels do as it were keep holy-day, Luke 15; 10. There is joy i the | preſent k? |

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elos quand I{Ci- raiſe 1 IS the muſfick of Heaven, mus, I:

lo Repentance is the Joy of rite, nan {oli Angeli,

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the Angels. -. | 11, That which may cauſe tears to di It 111 from our. eyes, is to conſider how

dear our fins coſt Chriſt. Chriſt is called

the Rock, 1 Cor. 10, 3. When his hands

were pierced. with nails; and, the ſpear

wasthruſt io his ſide, then was this Rock ſmitten, and., there came out water and

us*, Dan.'9. 26, The Meſſiah ſhall be cutt *541v;;, off, but c# for kimſelf. We taſted the noſtrz a-

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And can we look upon a ſuffering Savi- our with dry eyes? Shall we not be ſor- Ty for thoſe {ins which made Chriſt a #2az of forrow ? Shall not our. enormities draw tears