A choice Bed of Spices. fo confeifinG to be under the capacity of the promife of the forgivenefs of their fins, &c. Firft, You 111011 find repenting (inners confeffing, their fins, Ezra 9.6. 0 my God, I am afbarxed and blufb to lift up my face unto thee, my God; for our iniquities are increafed over cur head, and our trefpafs is grown up unto the heavens. Ver. I 0. And now, 0 our God, what fhall we fay after this? for we have forfaen thy commandements, &c. Pfal. 51. 3. 1 acknowledge my tranf- greffions, and my fin is ever before me. Ver. 4. Againft thee, thee only have I finned, and done this evil in thy (fight, Dan.9.425. I prayed unto the Lord my God, and made may confeffion, and _laid, 0 Lord, the great and dreadful God, 'c. We have finned ana committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgments, &c. Ver. 8. 0 Lord, righteoufnefs telongeth uno thee, but unto u confufion of flee, a4 at this day. Luke 15. 18. 1 will arife and go to my father, and will fay unto him, father, I have finned again/' heaven and lef ,re thee. Ver. 19. And am no more worthy to le called thy fon, dr-c. Cora 15. 9. For I am the legit of all the elpft'les, that am not meet to be called an .Xp flle, becaufe 1 perfe- cuted the Church of G I rim. 1. i 3. who wad before a big- phemer, and a perfeeuter, and injurious, &c. 53. 6. All we like fbeep have gone agray, we have turned every one to his own way, ard the Lord loath laid on him the iniquity of us all. I might ea- lily produce a hundred other Scriptures to prove that re- penting finners are confeffing (inners, but let thefe fuflice,&c. Secondly, If you pleafe to call your eyes upon ether Scriptures, you fluff find thefe penitent .confeifing fanners to oe exprefly under the promifes of the forgiv'enefs of fins, Tam I. 9. If we confers our fins, he es faithful-and :it* to for- give us our fins. Pfal. 32. 5. 1 acknowledged my fin unto thee, ;mine iniquityluve [not hid ; I faid, I will confels as y tranfgreffi- ons unto the Lord, and thou forgiveft the iniquity of rny fin, &eh. Levit. 26.40,41,42. If they fall crnfefs their iniquity, and the. iniquity of their fathers, with their trefpafs which they trefpfred agaqi me, ,#nd that alto they have 'waked contrary unto me ; and H h 2 that 235_ 1. Repenting fin:. nets ceniefs their fins, &c. 2. Confelling peni. tents are under the promifes of forgwenefs, &c. Turn to that, Sub 33. 27,24 and pondar :upon it. IFITt'h 8a2tc.o.Ur's -his ans, shall not profper but he that conteffeth and fort akcr.h, alai! have mercy. &c.
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