Bolton - Houston-Packer Collection BV824 .B65 1634

TheSaints · 5An inward forrow, ·renting of the heart, blee· dingofthe foule. see Do'JJ'"• , 6 Anoutwardb~wailing, with a plentifull and p.1g. 3 r. heJrt·peircing coJ)feffion ofall ourfins beforeGods graciou·sthrone: 7 A refolute hatred,dHlike,&averfion in thewill. 8 An impregnable refoludon and(hangreafoning of the mind. · 9 Aconfrant endevour asd watchfull oppoficion agairifi all fin. . 1 o An hearty grieving that wee cannot per– forme all thefemore hardly,fiocerely and roundly. He~pcs.for exNuw for the fharpning and quickn1og of our ammauon and [ h • h ~ 1. d fi . full "c-. • humihation. ·· cartsWtt amore ree mg an rQlt exerc11e m thefe feverotll points, confider of fuch meanes and Toke~pethe - eyes ofnaturaJl confcience cleare. motives as thefe. · , 1 To he!pus in the firfr, · I Firfi, Let us labonr to keepe the eye ofnatu rail confcience, as cleare and open as wee can potfi- . bly. There is indeed a little glimpfe of light left and referved in nature, which hath power in fome meafi1re to difcover unto us the foulenefie and hor . - rour of fins committed , and thereafter to affeCt: the heart with forrow and remorfe, as appeareth, Rom. :z.. I 5. Some indeed doe darken it by groffe )and wilfidl ignorance, others, by a long cufiome Iin tin, by their horrible impieties and greedy drin- . · /king inofiniquitie, doe choake and utterly put ir l r ont; fo that it is turned in them tO meere Atheifme ,and a reprobate fenfe. t r Help~ fGr that• I· For the inlarp;iog and inlightningofthis. 1 Thdirfthelp.: I Let ~us cafi: our eye upon the honeft diCtates . · and

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