41 98 Of Repentance. S E R M.: death ; or having any deliberate thoughts IV. about the iffues of it : any, I fay, who `"-) confiders this, muff fee that it's imprudent even to madnefs, to put our falvation on fuch a rifqne as the defign and expetation of re- penting on a death -bed. And as wife pro- vidence, to guard againft our poftpomng the work of our falvation, has placed the manner and circumftancees of our dying wholly out of our view, and made them to us utterly uncertain, fo the difpenfation of grace and divine aids may be loft, and the Spirit of God grieved by their tranfgreffions, will at laft ftrive no more with finners, who are become altogether flefh, incorrigibly cor- rupt, having by a cuftom of doing evil har- den'd themfelves into an utter infenfibility : Does not experience thew, and the leaft re- flexion on the nature of habits, that the longer repentance is delay'd, the more diffi- cult it becomes ? And mull not every one be fenfible how incontinent, and indeed dif-, ingenuous it is, to commit fin with an inten- tion to be afterwards heartily forry for it, if there were no more in repentance than for - row for fin ? But the confideration to which my prefent fubjet particularly direEls our thoughts, is, that
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