3 3 epe POW ano familp Zookt the world, the Love of the Father is not in him,: I Job. 2. IS. I By this time you may perceive, ifyóuar4 willing, whether your Faith in Chrift, and Trkf#in God have been true or falfe. And now tell me, what elfe you. have to prove thatyou are a Juftifted Chrií}ian, and that your Hope of Salvation is built on God ? S. Mynext proof is, that I Repent of my fins ; And Godbarb promifedtoforgive them that Repent. P. Repentance is a good evidence as well as. Faith But here all() you muff take heed of that which counterfeit ; and therefore you muff be flare to under Band well what trueRepentance is. S. Repentance is to be forry for my fins when. have committed thm, and to with I had never, done them. P. Ifyou know. Repentance no better than fo, you; may be undone by the miftake. True Repentance is the fame with true (x) Converfion ; And it is fuch a finedchange of the /blind, Will and Life, from fiefh- ly, worldly and ungodly, to #iritual, Heavenly and Holy, as maketh us hate all the fin which we Loved, and heartily Love a holy life, and all thole duties to God and man which before our hearts were fet 'againft And this change is fo firmly rooted in us, as that it is become as a new nature to us ; fo that all the fame Temptations which before prevailed with us, would not draw us to the fame fins again, nor turn us from a holy life, if we were expofed to them as we were. S. There is a great deal in this: Ipray you open it to me morefully, in the particulars. r.g !Afat,1S. 3.I Cor.6. I I. Z Cor.7. I 0, I I.`T+it.1.3 5q P. By
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