- choice. Bed of .Spices: jitor-e- unto another, ,whom in bargaining I over- reached ; 0 give o much to the TOOT) and give fa much to (tech and fuch ,Piame ufes. But after the ficknefs was over, they were jut+ the fame men, that they were'before. Men in time of trouble are very rea- dy to cry out, iirife and lave us, Jer. 2. 27. And with them, Deliver 03 this time, Judges to. 15. And with the Samoiritans, who when God had fent Lyons among them, enquired after the manner ofhis Wort-lop, 2, Kings 17 , 2506, And yet af- ter all this to 'remain as vile and wicked as they did, 'ler. 2. 20. For of old time I have broken thy yoke, and burft thy bands,and thou faideft, I mill not tranfgreft, when upon every high hill, and under every green tree thou worndredfl,playing the liarlot.A wick- ed mansmillingnefs to be rid of his fins is tranfient, not confiant, 'tis like the morning Cloud, aid the early dew that paffeth away, Hof. 6.4. The Jews were a very unfiable peo- pie, a people bent to badfliding, a people that would often irt afide like a deceitful Bow, sometimes when the Judg- ments of God were heavy upon them, or when they were un- der the reign of fome good Kings, then down went their Groves, their Altars, their Idols, and their High places:; but foon after you fhall have them as much- fet upon Idolatry as before ; fometiirnes they were willing to be rid of their Idols, and at other times they were mad to go a whoring af- ter their Idols. But now a godly man (when he is hinnfelf) he is never unwilling to be r1(1,of his fins, yea, to be rid of all his.fins, the fixed, flooding, and abiding, difpofition and bent of a godly mans Saul, of a godly mans will, is to be rid of every fin ; and thrice happy is that man that is habitu- ally under filch a choice,and bleffed frame.. Thirdly, A tranfcendent willingnefs, a fuperlative wil- lingnefs, an overtopping willingnefs to be rid of fin, is an infallible evidence of the truth of Grace, in the Soul. When a. mans willingnefs to be rid of his fins overrops his unwil- lingnefs ; when a man is more'willing to be rid of his fins, than he is to continue in fin, then his fpiritual flate is certain- ly good. A gracious heart had much rather, if it were put to his choice, live without all fin, than to have allowance to wallow 93 Hof. rt.'. Pfal. 78. 34,37, Hof-ea y.tc 3
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