-A choice Bed of Spices. penitent turns from fin with his heart, with all his heart, and with all his foul ; he is turned in good camel}, from his fins, whofe heart is turned from his fins; if the heart turns not,all is naught, all is ,fi-ark naught ; he that turns from fin; but not with his heart, turns but leiobnedly, partially, hypocritical- ly, deceifully. God is a jult and a jealous God, and he will never endure corrivals or copartners in the throne, the heart of man ; a holy God will never divide with an unholy De vil. The true God is a righteous God, and he will never (hare his glory with another ; the true God mull be ferved truly, heartily, he loves neither halting nor halving. Such as divide the rooms of their fouls betwixt God and fin,God and Satan, God and the world, that fwear by God and Malcham, thatfometimes pray devoutly, and at other times curfe molt hicieoufly ; that halt betwixt God and Baal, are meer HeterO,.. clites in Religion, and fach whom God abhors. When a man's heart gives a bill of divorce to his fins, when his heart breaks the league with fin, when his heart calls it off, and calls it out as an abominable thing, then the heart is turned from fin really,effedually &c. If notwithfiandirig . all the profeffi ens that a man makes againit his fins., his heart Dill loves th2rn, and delights in them, and he will Hill retain them,and ' welcom them, and cleave to them, and make provifion for them, &c. his repentance is feigned and not real, & c.. But, ;, The fecond Anfiver. Secondly, A true penitential turning is an univerfal turn- Anf. 2. ing, a turning not from Come fins, but from all fins, Ezek. 18. 3o. Repent and turn :your f elves from all your tranfgre tons. 'er. 31. Cart away from ,you your tranfgregions. 2 Co'r. 7. t. Let vu cleanfe our [elves from all filthinejs both of flefb and Spirit. Pfal. i I 9. tot. 1 have refrained ray feet frrm every evil wad. Ver. i z8. /hat: every falfe way. Ezek. 14. 6. Therefore fay unto the houfe of Ifrael, thms faith the Lord God, repent and turn your felves from your idols, and turn away your faces from all yar abominations. Chap, 18.2 8. Becaufe he conlidertth and turneth away, from all his tranfgreflions that he hath committed, he L [hall
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