Part. I. Chap. 8• A!JliEled ConfiieJJces. .which being now cafr, and ~dng rhete is tiU\'Y" ~·o way but one: 0 wha~ a. reformed man would Hee be, if Hee might be r~prived t ~ntiochm, as the Apocryphall Book!_ of the t Maccabees repor~s, when the 1 ~ Mamb 9• hand of God was upon Him hordbly, vowed excellent things : 6 what He would do; to and fo e.x.traordinarily for the people of God ! yea and that he himfeife aljo would become a Jew ; and goe through all the world, that w.u inhabited, and dedare ~he power of qod. But what was it, thinke you, that made this raging Tyrant to relent, ?.nd thus feemingly repent? A paine of the bowels that was remedilejfe came upon him,~Jnd fore tormt nts of the inner parts. So that no ma11 could en'durc to carrr hi~ for, His intolera·bleflinkn . ~nd bee hi11!- felfe could not abide, His owne fmell. Many may thus behave themfelvczs upon tbeir Beds of death with very ftrong fhewes, and many boyil:erous reprefentations of true turning unto God,whereas in truth ana .,. t&iall, they are asyet rotten at-heart root e. . . A1.1d :as f yet -M more·comfort. upon good ground But thu fo:ct d late ·b. '1 · ' '- ·b b. r · 1 r · d Repenuncc 1s fcldom :· a ongs . unto, t~1er;t., .t en to t 01e 1n t 1e r9re-nte found. Places: And if anyJpirituall PhyGtion in fuch acafe, ' · .doe preife .it .hand over-head, or fuch a Patient pre- · Jmne;to,appty:ir?rj;t is utt_erly mifgrounded, mif-appli- · _"e~. , ~H;tea. ~i\t. ~p1~~ qf .the wot:thieil: Divines in uDoClor vfher in ~is . Chuliret_ d.otp~Jflrith; : . Now put cafe, One commeth to Anfwcr to a ' e!uHes • Hu ,gho Father with fuch forrow of minde, •u the .cha!I<mge, pag.x 52.• . :terrours of a guilty C onfcience ufually doe produce~ and wit~ [u.ch a refolution to cafl. ftway Hu jinnes, as I! Man : ha,thma .ftor.metocaft.vaw'JJ.hu goods; not./Jecaufe Bee ,. doth not love the.m, but · becau[e He feareth to lo(e His l fo,if He part not .withthem; doth not.-heebetray this xpy/{e ,oi repentance, mans fou'f~ who putteth into his head, that fuch fin ex- cap . 16 · _, , , , t t d R t h . h. hh h . 1 Mc:t~TOO :;m' E>~ 71!l' or e · epen anc(}. .as •t u, w se at not one grame o B. • ~ ' ' · . • . • c:trJ'IAflcUI 'T 11e;l-l'r.IV• love to jeafon·tt wtthall, wtll qualifie Him fujficiently Mat.t 3· 51· for the receiving of ·an abfolution.? &c. And x another 'Jirenitenti~ nttnqu~tm e.xcellently inflr~tCled unt.o the Kingdome of Heaven : (era,fi fena : Sed {era · RepentaJtce
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