A Box of precious Ointment : Or, after that I-gad turned, I repented ' and after that twas d, I (mote upon my thigh, I was alhamed, yea even confounded,le- caufe I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear fon? is he a pleafant child? for fince I fpake again/.l bins, 1 do re- member him ; therefore my bowels arc troubled for him, 1 will , forety have mercy upon him, faith the Lord. Luke 7.18, And Thee flood at his feet behind him weeping, and began 7 to wafh his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and Miffed his feet and anointed them with ointment. Ver, 47, where- 'fore I fay, herfins which were many are forgiven. Chap. 15. 18, 1 t 9, 20. twill arife and go to my father, and will fay to him, fa ther2I have finned againfaeaven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy fon : And he arofe and came to his father ; ibut when he was yet a great way cif, his father flaw him, and had compaffion, and ran and fell upon his neck and ,cif ed him. But what are the properties orcqualifications of that right turn- ing from fin, which brings poor fanners within the compafs of the pro- wife of forgivenefs of fins? Now to this great quettion I hall give thefe four following Anfwers. irft Anfwer. Firft, That turning from fin, which bring; a man within the compafs of the promife of forgivenefs of fin, is a cor- dial turning from fin, Tel 2. 12. Turn ye, even to me, with all your heart. 2 Chron. 6. 3 8. If they return to thee with all their heart, and with all theirfoal. Ver. 39: Then hear thou from the he,..vens their prayer and their fupplication, and forgive their fins. Deut. 3o, i o. lf thou turn unto tie Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy foul, &c. Jer. 3. i o. And yet for all this, her treacherous filler Judah bath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, faith the Lord, Chap. 24. 7. And I will give them an heart to know me, that I am the Lord, and they Pall le my people, and I will be their God ; for they (hall return unto me ;with their whole heart. Wicked men are ferious and cordial in 1 their finning, and they muff be as ferious and cordial in their !returning, or they are loft and undone for ever. The true penitent
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