A choice Bed of Spices. 237 are commonly extorted or fqueezed out, either by fame out- ward trouble, or by fome inward dillrefs ; but penitential confeflion is free and ingenuous, arifing from an inward de- teitation of fin, and from the contrariety of the heart to fin ; and therefore were there no rod, no rack, no wrath, no hell, th.:: true penitent would very freely and readily confefs his fins;when God is moil free in bellowing of mercies,then are they moil free in confeffing their iniquities, Hof 14.1)2)354. Look, as that is the belt wine that flows from the grape with leafl preffing, and as that is the belt honey which drops from the honey-comb without crushing ; fo thefe are the bell confeffions that flow, that drop freely, voluntarily from the foul, &c. Secondly,True penitential confelfion is full as well as free. 2. That confeffion is not fincere that is not full ; God loves nei- L941.18119. ther halting nor mincing confeffions. Thefe undid the Pha- rife; Luke i 8. it. As penitential confefIlms are not extort- ed, fo they are not ftraitned ; fin mull be conceit in its parti- cular fpecies and parts, all known fins mull be conceit fully, plainly, particularly, as you may fie by turning to thefe Scriptures, Lev. 26.40, 41, 4.2. & 19.21. Yudg. TO. 10. Pfal. 51. I Sam. 12. 19. I Tun. 1. 13. Aar 26. 10, 11. Dan. 9. 5,6,7,8-17. Lev. 16. 21, 222 &c. Some there be that deny their fins with the Harlot Prov. 30. 20. Such is the way of an adulterous woman, fhe eateth and wipeth her mouth and faith, 1 have done no wickednefs. And others there be that fa- ther their fins on others, as Adam did, Gm. 3.12. and as Eve did, ver. 13. and as Aaron did, Exod. 32,22. and as Saul I Sam. 15.22, And many there are.that hide their wicked- nefs, that conceal their wickednefs, as that proud. Pharifec did, Luk. it 8. ;I, 12. 'That expreffion of the Prophet Hofea, Horn to, II sou have plowed wickednefs, is rendred by the Septuagint, You have concealed wickednefs, and indeed there is nott'hinc, more common to a wicked heart, than to keep clofs his fin, than to cover and hide his tranfgrearions. And certainly, this is that fore difeafe, that our fiat parents were fick to death of, al- moil fix thoufand year ago; and therefOre 'tis no wonder if we
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