A choice Bed of Spices, for thy fervants unto the Lord thy g,d, that we dye nit, for we have added unto all otir fins thee. evil, to ask us a ICing. They were difcontented with that government that the Lord had let over them, and they would needy be governed by a King, after the mode of other Nations ; and this fin they confers {lindiy and particularly before the Lord and Samuel. AnclfO. 7Jlv:d in that, i Chron. 21. 17. .4 id Davidfaid onto Gad, L it not I that commanded,the people to be nainbred ? even I it is that have finned and done evil indeed ; but 41 f.r the/ e Iheep, what have they dine ? Thus that princely Prophet confeffes that parti- cular fin that he th en lay under the guilt of. Ani fo Zacheu makes a particular confer;ion, he does as it were point with his finger at that wrong and injuffice that he. had been guilty of ; behold Lard, half my goods 1 give to the poor ; and if I have ta en any thin' from any man, by filfe accufation, I reit Jre him fourfold. Thus you fe,e that true penitents make a particular conrefsion of their right eye fins, and of their right hand fins ; and indeed, what is conrefsion of fin, but a fetting:our 'fins in order before the Lord ? and how can this be done but by a diftina and particular 'enumeration of them ? But to prevent miftakes; this Ind} be taken with .a grain of fait, this muff be underftood with this limitation ; we are to can- fels our fins ditlinaly, particularly, fo far as we know them, 1-fo far we are acquainted with them. There are many thou- -, fand fins which we commit, that we know not to be fins, and 1 there are many triourand fins committed by us, that can't be remembred by us. Now certainly it is impofsible for us to `recount or iconfe.fs thofe fins that we know not, that we re7 member not; fo that our particular confefsions can only reach to known fins, fo far as we can call them to mind ; for indeed our particular ads of fn are innumerable, they are more in number than the hairs of our head ; and indeed, we are as well able to tell the liars of heaven, and to number the lands of the Sea, and to recount all the fparing mercies, the pitying mercies, the preventing mercies, the faccouring mer- cies, the fupporting-mercies,i-and the delivering mercies of God, as we are able to tell, to number to recount, the indi- vidual particular ads of fin that we are guilty of .; yet fo far, i - as
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