218 ----71-13ox of recious Ointment.: Or, pentaace, unto all which forgivenefs of fin is ,promife And the istbntrition or grid of heart for fins committed. Now this is called fometimes godly furrow, 2 Cor.7.1o. and ,fornetifnes a contrite fpirit,' Ifa. 66. 2. and fometimes a broken and contrite heart, PP/. 5 r. 17. and fometimes the affliaing of our fouls, Levit. 16. 29. and fometimes the humbling of the h.tart, 2 Ckren. 7. 14., Lauren. 3, 2o. and fometimes a mourning, Zech.t i. to. and fometimes a weep- ing, /War* 14. 72. All repenting fanners are mourning fin- nets. David repents and waters his couch with his tears,Pfal. 6.6. Hez,tkiab repents and humbles himfelf for the pride of his heart, z Chren. 32.26. Ephraim repents, and Ephraim be- moans him_ and fmites upon his thigh,-and is even con- founded, er.31.t 8,19? Mary Illagdaien repents, and weeps, and waffles Chrifis feet with her tears, Lake 7.38. The Co- rinthians repented, and they were made forry after a godly manner, z Car. 7, 9. Repentance in the Hebrew is called Nacham, an irking of the foul; and in Greek Metamelia,after grief ; and Metakoia, after wit ; and in the Latin; Pognitentia. All which do import, that contrition or forrom for fin,' is dm part of true repentance. 01 the fighs, the groans, the :fobs, the tears that are to be found among repenting fin- Lallaom.3.,417. ners, &c. Luther hit the Mark, when he Paid, What are all the Palaces of the world, to a contrite heart ; yea, heaven and earth, feeing it is the feat of divine Majelly? Secondly, 'Tis very obfervable, that all mourning perfons 23 for their fins, are within the con-Tars of the promife of for- givenefs of fins, Zech. 1z. xi. In that day there.fhall be a great mrurning in Jerufalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo, Zech. 13. I. In that day there fhall be a fountain opened. to the hot(e of David, and to the inhabitants of jerufalem, for fin and foruncleannep, Jeri 31.t8. I have flee- t), heard Ephraim bemoaning of himfelf, &c. Ver. 20. 1 will furely have mercy on him ; or as the Hebrew has it,I will having mercyj,, have mercy on him. As foon as Ephraims heatrrtouis
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