Of EleUion. 347 in Pfal. 5•· fhews. And you that know what it is to be converted, may trace ~ the prints of a new converfion inall the parts of Converfion, to have been ft 1 p- Chap. 12. plicated for by him, to be .wrought in him, as humiliationfor ftn,vtrf. j, 5, i4. ~ a feeking out for pardon ofjin,rmd rigbteoufiufs of juflijication,verj.2,7,9, 14. and as vehement petitions for holinejs and fan[fljication to be renewed , and that in the very terms which are ufed of its being wrought at firft; verfe ro. Creau in me a cltall hMrt, 0 God! and rtnt'W a right}pirit Within mt. And he imploreth .<4ace in the fame manner and terms alfo, as any new Converts ufe to feek the j&vour of God in, and toexprefs themfelves by; yea, and that therewitll God would [reflore J to him the formtr joy of his fa/vation, vtr[..12. and [flablifh) himWith his fru Spirit; (which !aft word ~abtijh, is the fame with the fecond word here in the Text, and fo Tranflated by the Septuagint, and ufed by Chrift to our Apoftle :) yea, and laftly, (if you will admit it) he uiters himfelf in the very Allilfion, which in the way of Metaphor, this lirfr word in my Text did prompt u·s to, towards the expofition of the word it felf, namely, offetung right abroktnor disjoynttd Bone or Member. And truly, 'David's language runs thus,That the bones which t hot~ hafl6rokm may rejoyce; only David, by his broken bones, in that vrrfr, means thofc dolors (nod therefore oppofed to joy in the Text) and heart-breakings for fin, fet upon his Confcience, together with Imprellions of the finger of God, which were to his Soul as affective; as the breaking of the bones to the body ; and which God himfelf h•d done, and brought upon him, which thott haf16roktn; whereas the Metaphor in the Gatr~tim1 Text, connotates o11r bavi11g 6rokru our own bones, or put our fouls out of joy11t, by willing falling into tins, wherein God hath no hand; and fo we bring upon our !elves another manner of breaking, God'.r 6reaki11g our bones, by way of Correction, in toking away our formet peace, and following us with the faddeft Tortures. But this word in my Text, takes in and comprehends all , and importS a making all whole again; whether in refped:of reftoring former peace and joy agam, inftead of pain; or of making all found again, of thofe bruifes, di•junltures, or brokennefs of bones, made by finnings in our fouls, unto a newptrjd1ion of Peace and Holinefs,thar is, which is comparatively fuch. · This for the import and application of this word ••,.,~Cu, unto God's reflc: rings after great lapfes into fin, which is one of the' Cafes forementioned, Yy 2 CHAP.
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