224 A Box of precious Ointment: Or, born together, yet.whilft a believer lives in this world, they mutt live together. And indeed holT joy and godly forrow are no wayes inconfiffent, Pfal. 2. u. yea, a godly man's eyes are alvvayes fullefl of tears, when his heart is falleft of holy joy, &c. A man may go joying and mourning to his grave, yea to heaven at the fame time. But now the forrow, the grief of wicked men for fin, 'tis like a morning cloud, or the early dew, or the crackling of thorns under a pot,or aPoft that quickly paffeth by,or a dream that foon vanifheth, or like a tale that is told, &c. their forrowful hearts and mournful eves foon dry up together. As you may fee in Efi/u, eXhab, Pharaoh and Judas ; but the Dreams of godly forrow will lait and run, as long as fin hangs upon us, and dwells in us, 1 (or. 15.9. 1 am, the leaft of the ANN es, that am not meet to be called an dip° f Ile, becaufe I perfecuted the Church of god. Pfal. 25. 7. Remember not the fins of my youth,nor my tranfgreffions. David prayeth to the Lord, not only to forgive but alfo to forget, both the fins of his youth, and the fins of his age. David remembred .all his faults, both of former and of later times. DAvid was well in years when he defiled himfeif with Baihlhebt; and this he remembers and mourns over, Pfal. 5i. And 'tis very ob- fervable, that God charged his people for to remember old fins, Deut. 9.7. Remember and forget not how thou pr.vokedg eke Lord thy God to wrath in the wildernefretRepentance is a grace, and mull have its daily operation as well as other graces, witnefs the very covenant of grace it felf, Etek. 16. 62,63. 1 will e f tab* my covenant with thee, and thou (halt know that I am the Lord, that thou mlyeft remember and be con founded, and never open thy mouth any more, becaufe thy fhame, when I am pacified towards thee for all that thou-hall done. Certainly a true penitent can no more fatisfie himfelf with one ad of repen.- tance, than he can fatisfie himfelf with one ad of faith, or or with one ad of hopes or with one and of love, or with one a& of humility, or with one ad of patience, or with one ad of felf-denial. Godly forrow is a Gofpel-grace that will live and laft as well and as long as other graces, 'tis a fpring that in this life can never be drawn dry. Sixthly,
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