* Wirit, I will beſtow my love upon thee, [ill give thee a Kingdom 5 Sor, all 7 ve is thine *. O my friends; do but * Tua ſunr Lompare your eſtate before Repentance, boca | 21nd after Repentance together. . Before raria, hzc #four repenting, there are nothing bur 44 m_ þ Alouds to be ſeem and ſtorms; clouds in ad flea. "uÞods face, and ſtorms in conſcience; but « cum (Bru + Ifter repenting, how is the weather al- #7: -jered! whatfun-ſhine above! what "y ry *[ene calmneſs within! a Chriſtians ſoul , ing like the Hill 0/ympae, all. light and | -*y - , fſear, and no winds blowing. | LF. A third means conducidle to Res 3. :mance, is, a ſettled determination to \Feavelin; nor a faint velleity,'butare- | ] * folved vow, F/zl. 119. 106. I have ſworn -iþ bat 7 will keep. thy righteaus' judgements; _ Pll the delights and artifices of tin fhall ot make me forſworn. There: muſt be _... 20 beſttation,no conſulting withfleſh and © | loud 5 had 'T beſt leave my fin or no? © But as' Ephr:tive, Ho. 14. 3. What: have T 0' do: avy more: with Idols * ? | will be «Abo mulled no:more by my ſins, no longet malan bol'd by Satan 5: this day I will put a, evcm,. .. "Fbill-of divorce. into the hands of my luſts.. * - #Tilt we tome to: this peremptary refo-
pra fin will get ground of us, oy by all -
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But this haired be built utio the ſtrength of: Cheſt, :;ore-than:@ *Fruſftrs own; 3t muſt be an/:humble xeſolution *X au As David: when he ment againkt:Kiboahy ur. Ber= he put off his preſumptugys' gonhdende,! ward. as wellashisarmour{L favs fins Zothee: dis | the tame bf the Dara": Sor? muſt: go! dit -ugatalt itt Gb/zafrhafts-th the ſtrength of Chridbs: i: F168 wi Lat Y 5 an tg jopn another» in the batid;w i im: 'So:bcing conſcious of aun: a: toleave fin,:let usger:c be i. bounds with: 11S, ! and en | _ firengey omen moxtifyiog | Cafrupr : Hon. iti; © 16GcIH K Wo 6s 111. 4. « tþe The: Gdarth means. 1s -arag:
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ariſt to give to us ſuch a look of loye HE did to Peter, which made him go pur and weep bitterly : Implorethe help of 3066s Pirit; tis the Spirits (miting on he Recks of our hearts, that makes the "1" gut opt, Pſal. 147. 18. He canſeth wRF wild to blow, and the naters flow. When {rhe wind of Gods Spirit blows, then the . Wwater of tears will-flow. - xe. "laibgs 'We ſhould go toGod for 14 ?F <p oteance, 1, 'Becauſe 1t 1s his grft;' k AT. þ x\18 . Then bath God alſo to the Gems -tter grated Repertanice unto life. The ar» ri#ians bold, that it is in'our power t& "repent. Wecan hardenour hearts, but we cannot ſoften them. This Crownoof ' Fret-will is fallen from, our head ; nay; - theres in us not only. potency, but * ob- _ ſlinacy, 4G. 7. 51. Therefore beg of God a repentant ſpirit.z he can make the ſtony - Heart bleed ; his word is verbur creatr- *,vn," With. his command he gives power. 2. We muſt hayerecourſero God for ; this bleſſing, becauſe he hath pomifed to cſtow it, Ezck. 36.26. I will 'give you : an heart of fleſh. 1 will ſoften your Ada” - mant/heatts in my Sons blobd : ſlew + 444 God
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another gracious promiſe, Jer, 24; ; They ſhall return unto me with their whole, dy Turn this promiſe into a prayer? Lord give megrace to return unto thee with my whole heart. +
\ 5. Endeayour after clearer diſcove k rics of God, Fob 42.5. Now mine. exe; ſeeth thee ; wherefore I abbor my ſelf_ and repent in duſt and aſhes. Job having y ſurveyed Gods glory and purieyes as an? humble: penitent he did abhor, or as ity zs1n the anne he did even 'reprobate i bimſelt *. looking into the. txapſpa-'3 pas laſs © r Bs holineſs, we ſee® "OUT -
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them. | > 6. Laſtly, Labour for Faiths. 'bue F what is that to Repentance ? Yes, Faith, breeds union with Chriſt, and there can -- be no ſeparation from fin, till there be® union with Chriſt, The eye of Faith | looks on mercy, and that thaws the F heart. Faith carries us to Chriſts blood,
and that blood mollifies. Faith-.per- -þ* {wades of the love of God, and that F | love ſets .us a weeping» :
- Thus I hays laid down the means or helps
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* now, but that we fet upon the work ;