ofa pENi- renria, O Virgo am= plectanda , O ſecunda nautragi rabula ; miſeroruny auxilium, {pes cxu- Iual yj- tiorum ſe eras, ſanas,
I 5:
It were Iron 1t might be mollified in the - furnace; but a Stone punt in the fire will |.
Impenitency is a fin grieves Chriſt, Mark; 3. 5.' Being gr:eved for the hardneſs of their. Jpcarts. Tr is not {of much the difcaſe.
I14
The DoFrine of Repentance.: offends the Phyſician, as the contempt. of his Phylick. Not the {ins we have com-/ mitted do ſo much provoke and grieve Chriſt, as that we refuſe the Phyſick-of Repentance which he -preſcribes. . This aggravated Fezabels fin, Rev. 2.21.1 gave her ſpace to repent, yet ſhe repented not, An hard-heart receives no impryeſ-
* Cor durum velur ce* f10n *g it 1s untuned for CVEry.
ra fri
re figore wniquirar* qury, Tt was a ſad ſpeech Stephen
naculum di-
vinZ imaginis non reci= Gardner uttered on his. death- pit, Bernard. bed, I have denied my Maſter with
* Cor du»
rum Nec compun-
Rione ſcin= With Fudss, An hard heart 18 the Anvi ditur, nec ecibus ecirur, minis non cedir, flagellis induratur z ad confilia infidum, ad turpia inverecundun ad pericula impavidum, Bern. ad Engen.
Peter, but I cannot repent' with Peter. O the plague of an obdurate heart ! Pharaohs heart turned-intoſtone, was worle than his waters turned into blood. David had his choice of three judgements, plague, {word and famine 5 but ſure he would have choſen them all rather than an hard heart. An 1impent tent ſinner is- neither allured by entrea ties *, nor affrighted by menaces. Su as will not weep with Peter, (hall weep
on: which. the hammer of Gods juſtice will be\trikipg to all eternity.
*
' 16. The
_—_ Mm a ee www 6 a x... L>....
The DoBrine of Repentance, _— 16. The laſt Motive toRepentance is,
the day of judgement is coming; This is
the Apoſtles own Argument, 4@. 17.31, God commands men every where to repent, becauſe he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world. There 1s that in the
day of judgement, Which may make a -
ſtony heart bleed. Will a mango on
. thieving when the Aſſzes are nigh? Will the ſinner go on fianing when: the -
day of judgement is (onigh ? Thou can(t no more conceal thy ſin, than, thou canſt defend it 3 and what wilt.thay do when all thy ſins {hall be written in Gods Book, and engraven on thy forehead? O direful day, when Jeſus Chriſt clothed in his Judges Robe, (hall ſay to the ſinner, ſtand forth, anſwer to the In- di&ment brought againſt thee. What can{lt thou ſay tur all thy oaths, adulte- ries, and thy deſperate impenitency 2 O
.how amazed and {tricken with conſter- .nation will the ſinner be! and after his
conviction, he mult hear the ſad ſens tence, Depart from me, Then, he who would nor repent ot his ſins, ſhall repent of his folly : If then there be ſach a time a coming, wherein God will judge ten for their impictics, what a ſpur £1 thould
« 5 k &
I15
= s o > T *Y - =y c
I 6%
hort. 2 Branch.
ey) £6.
The Do@rine of Reperttance. _
ſhould this be to Repentance! The peni- tent ſoul ſhall at the Jaſt day lift up his head with comfort, and have a diſcharge to ſhew under the Judges own hand.
- — 44 CO IOQ_ OR T— ——
CAPE.
—_—
« Exhorting to ſpeedy Repent ance.
aſe Exe / H E ſecond branch of the Exhor-
tation 1s,to preſs perſons to ſpeedy
Repentance, A@. 17. 30. Now God com- * wv Te. mands men every where to repent *, The
Lord would not have any of the late Autumn fruits offered to him. God loves carly penitents that conſecrate the ſpring and flower of their age to him.
Early tears, like Pearls bred of the morns ing dew, are more orient and beautiful.
Ol do not reſerve the dreys of your age for God, leſt he reterve the dregs of his cup for you! Be as ſpeedy in your Re- pentance,as you would have God ſpeedy
13n his mercies, 1'Sax. 21.8. The Kings "buſineſs required haſte : So Repentance re-
ires haſte. 'T1s vatural to us to procraſtrnate and -purtofi Repentance. We ſay as Hag, I. 2,
The