lCfoti·ves 'tO Con~erflon. ~nd d_eride thy mifery, and fport thetnfelves with thydan1nable toll.y ·? This muft be thy cafe, except thou turn: Andw.ere it not better thou ih_ouldft be a joy to Angels,. than a Jaughing fl:ock and fport for Devils ? Verily, if thou wouldfi: but c.orne in, the l1eavenly hofi: would take .up :their Anthems, and fing, GLory b~ to God in the higheft; the n1orning– fiars w·ould fing together, and all the f0ns of God fhout for joy, and ce]ebrate this new Creation as they did the firft. Thy repent~nce would, as it were, make holy. day in heaven, and the glorious Spirits would rejoice, in that there is a new.brother added to their fociety, Rev. 2 2. 9· another h~ir born to the'ir I.ord; and the loll: fon received fafe and found. The true penitenfs tears areindeed thewine that ehear,- . eth both God and rnan. If it be little, that Men and Angels would re• joice at thy converfion, know that God himfelf "vould rejoice. over thee, .even with finging, and . . reft in his love, Lu~. r r. 9· lfa. 6:z.. ) • Never did ' :facob with fuch joy weep over the neck of his 1o-– fepb, as -thy heavenly Father would rejoice ov~r ··· thee; up0n thy coming in to him. Look over the . · Hory of the Prodigal : Methinks I fee how the. aged father lays aflde his eRate, and forgets· his: years: Behold., hew he runneth ! L'ul{· I). 2o. Oh.~ the hafte-that mercy n1akes ! The ftnner makes not · . half that fpeed. Methinks I fee how his bowels··' turn, . how his compaffions yearn. ( Ho~v quick-· fighted is love!) Mercy fpies hitn a great way off,::;;-· ·f{n·gets his riotous courfes, unnatural rebellion,·. horr1d unthankfulnefs, debauched practices, (not ' a·wordof thefe,) but receives him with open arn1s~," dafps about his ne:k) forgets the -.naflinefs of his ~-. rags, kiffeth the lips that deferve to be loathed, ._ the li-ps that hail been joined to harlots) that had 0· b.ecu €ommoners with ·the fwine;. calls for th<rfa.t,.,. H <s ~ t@d""
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