230 A -Box of precious- Ointment. e Or, bring under all fin. 0 ! the care, the caution, the circum- lpeolion, the vigilance, the firivings and the firugglings of the repenting foul againft temptations and corruptions. Secondly, Yea what clearing of your felves, Apology or defence ; which is not done either by denying of fin, or by excufing of fin committed, but by confelfion of fin, and difliking of fin, and bewailing of fin, and by walk- ing quite crofs and contrary to the fin confeffed; dilliked and bewailed ; as Zdcheus did, bike 19.8. and as the Jailor .did, Aels r 6. 3 3. The true penitent has no ways to cleer himfelf, but by arraigning, judging and condemning of himfelf,i Car. 31. For if we would judge our felves, we thould not be judged. When men judge themfelves, and condemn them- felves, God is prevented, and the Devil c'efeated as having n)thing to fay againif them but what they have faid before ; when men acknowledge their fins, and aggravate their fins, and pals the-fentence, of condemnation upon themfelves for their fins, they shall find their acquittance from them fairly drawn in the blond of Chrift. Repentance for fin takes off the guilt of fin, and fin bewailed is as if it had never been committed ; and this becomes the foul's Apology, .Ezek. 18. 211 z 2 . Thirdly, Yea what indignation or flomack,'Ayouck-wis, Wrath unto grief; it notes the very rifina b cf the ftomack with rage, and a being angry unto fretting, fuming and Eck- nefs. Again, it notes the very heighth''of anger and rage. The true penitent is not fo ekceeding angry with himfelf for any thing, as he is angry with himfelf for his fins. Indigna- tion here imports the turning of all the pilions of the foul wholly againft fin. There are no men in the world fo hot and angry againft themfelves for their fns, as penitents are - witnefs thofe that polluted the Idols that they had perfumed, Ifa. 30. 22. witnefs David, P f al. 73. 2 2 Win-1th Ephraim, Ho f ea 14. 8. and witnefs Paul, Rom. 7. 22, 23. There are none that fret, and fume, and chitafe- at themfelves for fin, as penitent fouls do ; there are none that loath themfelves, that abhor f;. 2. Con6omitInt of godly iorrow, As the child makes his defence and apology to his father, not by denying or de- fending his faults, but by confeffmg, and difclaiming ,of them ; fo does !the penitent foul carry it towards I God. 3. Concomitant of godly forrow. '11a. 2. 20, 1111..0.011*.b.
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