22 44113ox of precious 0invrzentRY'r, Ex0:1. 9. 27. 8c 20.16, will fooner or later break off all leagues and friendfhips with fin. As fin,makes a feparation between God and a man's foul, fo godly farrow makes a feparation between a man's foul and his fin, All holy mournings over fin, will by de grees iffue in the wafting and weakninc, of the firength and pover of fin, nothing below the death and deftruction of fin will fatisfie that foul that truly mourns over fin. Bqt.now, though you may find an unfound heart fotnetimes a-lamenting over his fins, yet you shall never find him a leav- ing off his fins. Pharaoh lamented over his fin, crying out, I have finned, the Lords righteous, and I and my people are wick., ed. And again, Then Pharaoh cal.ed fca- Moles and for Aaron in ha f te, and he _laid, I have finned againfi the Lord your God,' ata 4,04 you. But though you find him here lamenting and com- plaining over his fin, yet you never find him leavina b or for- faking of his fin. So Saul could city out, he had finned,but,yet he fill continued in his fin ; he acknowledged that he did evil in perfecuting of David, and yet he fill held on perfe- cuting of him. An unfound heart mourns over fin, and yet he holds on in a courfe of fin t he fins and mourns,and mourns and fins, and commonly all his -mourning for fin does but the more imbolcten him in a way of fin ; bat the gracious foul fayes with /4,, If I have done iniquity, I will do it no more. He laments over fin and leaves it, he confeffes it and forfakes it, and lie is as willing to forgo it, as he is willing that God should forgive it. Seventhly, All,(and if you pleafe I (hall give you many things in one) godly forrow is the fruit and et-feet of Evan- oelical faith, it flows from faith as the (ream from the fountain, the branch from the root, and the effea from the caufe, Zech I2. to. They 'hall look upon him whom . they have pierced, andfhall mourn for him,,ds one mourneth for his only fon, a.nd fhall be in bitternefi for him, do one that is in bitternefi for his firft-bcrn. Look,. as all legal forrow flows from a legal faith, as you may fee in Ahab', and the Ninevites, fo all Evange- lical forrow flows from an Evangelical faith ; They )(hall look hf on
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