tpePoo; anoEmiip115ook. 3 5 he mayhave every time force coldnefs or irnperfec ions in his prayers ; and fuck like infirmities oft returning may Rand with true Repentance, becaufe the finner would fain overcome them, if he could. And fo if a man often wrong you through infirmity, and oft repent, you muff forgive him. But tell me truly ; If one of your own Servants or Children, íhould (even times a day; or but once a week, or once a month, fpit in your face and beat and buffet you, or wound you and let your houle on fire, and as oft come and lay, IRepentofit, would you take this for true Re- pentance, or think that this is it that Chrift here meant Or ifyour Servant fhould every night come to you and fay, Mailer I have done no work to day ; haul repent, 1;011)1 haddone it ; and fo hold on from day to day, will you take this for Repentance ? Do you think it poffible for an ungodly worldly flefhiy man, to Repent trulyof Inch a life today, and turn to it again to mor- row ? And fo on ? It cannot be. A man may repent of an angry look, or a vain word to day, and through infirmity commit the fame to morrow : But a man cannot repent of an ungodly'fenfual lifè , and turn to it again to morrow. I do not think that there is one wickedman of Many but when he bath been guilty of fornication, drunken- nefs or any Inch fin of fenfual pleafure, doth repent of it when the pleafure is gone, and wiíheth that lie had not done it, when yet he goeth on, and is a Lover of inch beaftly pleafure more than of God : For there needeth no laving grace to fah a kind of repentance fenfe and experience may ferve the turn. For when the pleafure of the fin is gone it is nothing , and there- fore is no matter for the fanners /ove ; (unlefs it be the fanciful remembrance of it, which is another thing, ) D z Box:
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