* Or Re– pentan(e~ ' A SERMON PREACHED before K 1 N a I A M E s,atWhite,hall, on the XXVI. of February,Auno 'Domini M o c x x 1 11. being ASH-WEDNESDAY. MATTH. Chap.II I. Verf. VII I. ';......Progenies viperarum, quis demonftravitvohis fuger_~ · ventura ira ~- Facite ergo fructum dignum pcenitentire (Vel, Profcrce igitur fi·uetus dignos pcenirentia.) · - · · ~...,Qgeneration ofvipers, :Who bathfore-warned you tofleefrom the anger to come? . 'Bringforththerefire fruits»Jorthy *amendment of life. fpqk~of repentance, at the time offafting, or of fafting, at the time of repentance, is no way out offtafon : As treeandftuit, they ibnd. Of theCeftuits,fAjling is one. And this, we now be· gin, aworthyftuit,ever from yeare to ycare, reli. giouilybroughtforth in the churchof CHu sr. That, we goenot from on,e, when we fall upon the other. The time ofrepentance will fall out to beaCumjejunatit, Repentance is herebrought in,and prcfented to us,asa tree wirhftt~it upon it.Thetreeof GoDs planting;Thefi·uit medscinab!e; ofthe natureofa counttr.poifon, againil: our bane taken by the frttil of another tree. The fruit oftheforbidden treehad envenomedour Nature: theftnil ofthistree, to expel) it, to recoverand cure us ofit. Now, this Metaphore (of trees andftuit) puts us in minde, that the manner of fuit-treesJs, once ayeare, they beareftteit. All doefo; once atleail: : And ifall, this tree likcwife, withinrhefame cornpaffe, to bri11gjorthhers. And, theugh at rtcl timerepentanfecomes amiife; goodall theyearelong; it may be
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