One fiabat the heart kills,one a4.1 of treafon makes a Tiaitor °Pe rpark of fire lets the houfe on fire: one flare ma A Box of precious Ointment tifhall jiirely live, he (hall not die. True repentance is a turning from all fin, without any refervation or exception ; he never t:uly repented of any fin, whofe heart is not turned againfl every fin. The true penitent calls of all the rags of old . Adam, he throws down every (lone of .the old building, he will not leave a horn nor a hoof behind. That which Nehe- miah fpeaks.of himfelf in that, Ntb. 13.7, 8. is very obferva- ble to our purpofe. And I c =ame to jerufalena and underflood the evil that El i afhib did for Tobiah, in prepringhim a chamber, . in the COWS of the bottle of God, and it grieved me fore (hut he; reas.not there, but goes further) therefore I e.<.11 forth all the 1 ha/4.1120141-14e of Tobiah out of the chamber. What fhould To.J Nab do with a chamber ? therefore he not only outs. Tobiah,' but outgoes all his fluff too. Thus the true penitent, when he confiders all the evil that fin has done, how it has taken up not only one chamber, but every chamber in the foul,. and how it has for many years quite fhut out God,and Chrilt,and the Spirit, and every thing that is good ; he is grieved fore, and fo falls upon the outging of every laft, being highly re- folved that neither Satan nor any of his retinue mall ever find the 'call entertainment in his foul any more. Such as are re- folved againti turning from any fin,are horrible profane; fuel) as turn from fame fins, but dole withothers, are hideous hy- pocrites.;.. fuch as turn from one fin to another, or change their fins as men do their fafhions, are moll fadly blinded, and defperately deluded by Satan ; but fuch as turn not from fome fins, but from every fin, are fincerely penitent. And certainly there are very great reafons why the true penitent does turn, and mull turn from fin univerfally. As,-. Firft; 'Tis to no parpofe for a man to turn from fame fins, if he does not turn from all his fins, fames 1..26. lf any man feem to be religions and bridle not his tongue, but deceiveth his onn heart, this mans Religion a in vain. This at flail fight may feem to be a hard faying, that for one fault, for one fault in the tongue, all a mans Religion fhould be ,counted vain, and yet this you fee the holy Ghoft does, peremptorily conclude. Let a man make never fo glorious, a profefilon of Religion,. yetif he gives himfelf liberty to live in the praaife of ,any known
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