Evangelical Repentance. 24 Again, (for I will but touchupon thefe) As a map <mull 2. know his fin : So ifhe will repent truly, he mutt be grie- ved, and humbled for it. Ifyou look into the 7. of Ltel., ye: may feewhat work it had : Awoman, a great finner conies toChrift, and the wathes his feet with her teares what made her dofo ? She loved much, for much was forgiven her. Sothat themore the love and mercyof God in Chriti' is opened in the Gofpel, or does make it's approach unto afoul, themere the foul is fet a weeping and mourning for fin committed. Again, As a man Repenting tmift be grieved for fin com- mitted ; So he mutt, and he will loath hinifelf: Pelf-loa- thing is requifite to Rep:mance. If a man have taken a furfet by eating or drin Ung, he does not only loath the meat which caufed the furfet, but he baths thevery-Veil that hath the fmell ofthe meat, or the liquor in it : So now, when a man comes to Repent, he does not only loath his fin, but he baths himfelfe, the veffel, where. the. fitine was : Oh ! thefe filthy eyes of mine ; Oh ! thefe vile ,hands , Oh ! this vile heart of mine; hee. baths him- felf. But what caufes this felf-loathing The Prophet Ezekel,will tell ye, in the 20. of Ezekiel. the4i, 42, and 43. verfes : ThenPallyeioathyourfelves trhenIam pacified; or whenGod had fhown them mercy, caufed his love to ap- proach unto them t Then fhould they loath themfelves. 'Tis not all your Affiitlions : nor all myThreatnings (faies God)that will make ye toloath your felves : but when ye fee my love, my grace, my.pardoning mercy ; then (hall yeloath your felves:not your fins only,but your felves alto. Again, ARepenting perfon does not only loathhimfelf for his fin : but he is afhamed of it : he is afhamed of his former evil wales, Whatfruit haveye ofthere things whereof ye are [now] *anted -: not before, but wereof ye are [now] afhamed. So longas a man walks in the dark, helloes not blufh, he is not afhamed though hisCloaths be ragged, and torne, andhis naked flefh appears, becaufe he is in the dark,: Butifhezonle tathe light, thenhe bluilies-that his nakednefe
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