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team cannot remove it: *'Tis hard to re- move {in when once it comes to be root” ed... The. longer the Ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken : the longer a man freezeth in ſecurity, the harder ir will be to have his heart broken: the longer any: travel. with iniquity, . the o || ſharper .pangs they muſt expect in the new birth. When fin hath. got an haunt, ;, | it is not eably ſhaken aff. Sin:comes to a j- | finner, as the elder Brother came to his e | Father, Zzxk. 15.29. Lo theſe many years a 2S
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d | after thowhaſt had-ſo much pleaſure by Priſtinum
11 | me? See how.fin pleads c»ſiozr, and that fenrgditn
Ee I1S'Aa Leopards ſpot of Jer. I3. 23, Hierom, *
d || : (It is dangerous to-prorogue and delay * 5+
>- | Repentance,becaulc there are three daies | may ſoon expire. 4ct3 1 |
2- I. Theday of the Golpel may: expire 3
n | -thists aſun-ſhiny-day 3 it 4s ſweet, but | k | {wafte- Zeruſalem had a day, but lolt it; » xa yo; 1 | ink 19.42. But. now they, are hid from hic ajolio- il Y thine cyes *...Þ he 4far Charches;had a 70 _ bs day, but. at laſt the Golden, Gavaleftick m2 cneLgia. th | was removed : It would be. a fad time in br#%4- England ice to the glory departed. With”
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; what hearts could we/follow the Goſpel |
' to the grave? To loſethe Golpel, were
farworlethan to have our City Charter.
taken from us. Gray hamws are hererant there, Hoſ. 7.9. I will not ſay the Sun: of the Goſpel 18 ſet in Ergl/azd, 'butI amifſure * remy7- 1t 1s Under a cloud. \ That was' w fad
gh res ſpeech, Matth. 21. 43! The Kingdom:.uf
oo %, God ſhall. be taken from yout therefore it #e«yu«- Is dangerous to delay:Repentance; Jelt 75475 the market of «the Golpel ſhould remove, Danaſccn. and the wiſor-ceale Fo 0) 1011 2. A mans perſonal day-af prace may ex- ., pire, What: if that time-ſhould: come, wherein God':ſhould lay, 4he Means' of Grace ſhalt do no good; Ordinances ſhall have a miſcarrying womb, and dry breaſts. | Were it not lad to adjourn Repentance —_ till ſuch: a decree came- forth * ?: ??Tis tia,neprz- True, NO mancan juſtly'tell -that his day eurrar ſen- Of grace is paſt; but there are two flirewd FeNT14, : . ' * C/o. Dgns by which he may fear it. $3 gr. 1- When conſcience hath done preach- | ing. Conſcience is a boſom-Preachor-; ſometimes 1t: convinceth:, ſometimes ir reproves: It faith as Nathan to Daord, Thow art' the -man. But men impriſon this Preacher, and God ſaith to conſcience, preach no\more : He that is Ry + gz bity
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| him be filthy ſtill. This 1s a fatal ſign a mans
day of grace is paſt. 2. When a perſonis in ſuch aſpiritual
Tethargy, that nothing will work upon
him, or make him ſenfible. There is
wnidua xateriEies, the ſpirit of a deep ſleep poured on him, 1a. 29. 10. This Is a fad
preſage his day of grace 1s paſt. How
dangerous then is it todelay Repentance when the day of grace may ſo ſoon ex-
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3. The day of life may expire;what ſe» curity have we that we hall live another day.? We are marching apace out of the
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world ; we are going off the.ſtage 5, our Sr.
life 1s a taper ſoon blown out, Mans life
Philo, Jud.
1s compared to the flower of the field, Pſal.
103. 15. which witherxs ſooner than the graſs *. Our age 1s M2 & zothing, Pſal. 39..5. Life 1s but a flying ſhadow. The bo- dy is like a veſlcl tunned with a little breath ; ſickneſs broacheth this veſſel; death draws 1t out. O how ſoon may the ſcene al- ter *! Many a Virgin hath been drefied the fame day in her bride-apparel and her winding- ſheer! ow dangerous then. 1s
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* Virer gloria hominis quaſi flos {ani, hodie a- Iiquem videas pubeſcen. tis Z:atis vircute floren= rem, grata ſpecie, ſuavi colore, cras, inſtar her- bee foeni occaſum pati» tur. Awbr. Hexam. (;b.3. * Morralium viea quid aliud quam ſcena> i qua ali; aliis obre&i mee pepcedane, A-
unta; fuay quiſq; par- ne C Yn Ag rin educat E profcemio, Era(m.
it,
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It toadjourn repenting, when death may lo ſuddenly make a thruſt at us. Say not,
* Sera oh you will repent to morrow * : Remem-
mis vita ct craſtina,
Matt.
ber that ſpeech of Aquinas ; God who pardons him that repents, hath not pro- miledeo give him to morrow to repent in. I have read of Archias, a Lacede- monian, who being among his cups, one delivere4 him a Letter, and *de- fired him ro reac the Letter preſently, being of ſerious butineſ(s he replyed, je
* Plutarch. tia cras, I will mid ſerious” things to mor-
Object.