' lnflrHCiionsfor aright comforting Setl.z. ling in the bo,dy : Who firfi apply to the atf..!Cl:e4 plac<; drawing,an:i ripening plaifi:ers tobring,the fore to an head, that the <;orruption may have iflue,. and then · heale: So a generall.complaint of finne, ,and confnft:d gric:fe, muft be reduced .to particulars. lt'is a principle in the myftery of Chrift refolved upon by beft Divines, rigJ1tly infJrHiled to the k.in.r.domr: of Heaven: That a t·onfH[ed ack.powledgemcnt, and gmer~tll repontance. -cnly, for kzorme }ii'Jl, u never found 11ndf11ving; /Jul . OlfCIJ common, forma//, perfun{/ory, ;llna that of counteFfeit C~nverl!, not truely wuhed with Jenfe 'of t.he.ir finnn, .nor heArtily refblv~dto forfokt their ·plea- .ftJru. Jf they can be firft brought:to the fight, fenk, ·and ackriowledgment of.fomct orie fpeciall notorious finne, which bath mofrraigned in their heart, life, or c;tlling;and be in fome good meafure illightened, convinced, and terrified ah9ut tbebainouft,efle, and hor~ ' rib le ·guilt of it, it may. be a good meanc:s by Go n s bleffing, to bring in the r~ft.: For ordinarily true re- . pentance is fit:fl: occafioned by fgme one: fpeciall finn~ bid :to .heart. The ApoiHes. Afl.r_ . -z. do fpecially .prefle: the -murder ofChr.ift ·upoll the l~wu. Cbrij't :himf:lt~ ' adult~ry upon the Woman of Sam11riit, loh. 4· Samuel,, Idolatry upon the Jfraelites, .I Sam:7. The finne of Mkjng tr King, Chap. 1.2. E~r11; takJ.tJg flrange Wivu: E;:.ra xo. Nehemiah, u[ur1: Chap. S· &c. To further the worke of a more particular f'etting their fi.ns in order before theirejeJ; it were too much to be wtthed,and a very happie thing,ifall the woe1nded confc.iences, and troubkd in minde wee me~te with, . were fnmi(hed before~hand, with acompet<}nt fpccu. lativ_e knowledge, at the leaft .of the pa_rticulars in God~ L~w, exorbi~~nt paffages oftheir life,.and gro!f:= corruptions of .th~~l' hearts. We mightfq; _by Gods help:: more eafily bring thein to particular remorfe, and ·fit the!n fooner, and more feafot1abl y for'comfort~ We finde It amoft hard, and right heavy taske, to encounter
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