Mark 6.12i1,20 A 134-of precious Ointment : Or, ii fician tells us, that if we will be cured, we muff break of our fins by repentance. NON this we are willino t, to do in Ipart, but not in whole ; we would fain keep one Dahlah one darling beloved fin, but it mutt not be, there muff not be one fin unrepented of ; we muff repent as well for our Achans as- our Abfaious, our Nimmons as our Marninons,- our Pavids as our Go/Lahs, our covert as well -as our open fins, our loved as well as our loathed lulls, our heart abominations as well as our grofs tranfgreffion,, our Babe iniquities as well as our Giant-like provocations t our repentance muff be uni- verfal,, or 'twill be to no purpofe. Herod turned from many evils, but would not turn from his Herodia4 ' and that was his ruin. fuda's his life was as fair and as free frorn fpots and blots, as the lives of any of the Apoillcs, no fcandalous fin was to be found upon him, only that golden' Devil covetoufnefs was his fin, and hi: everlaft- ing ruin ;, his Apofilefhip, Preaching, working of Miracles, hearing of Chrift, and converfing with him, &c. was to no purpofe, becaufe of -that Serpent he kept inhis bofom, which at lafl flung him to death. If a man --lives in the pra6tife of any known fin, the union between fin and his foul is not dif-, folved ; and if that union be not diffolved, Chrift and his foul was never united, and therefore fuch a perfon can never be faved. Saul fpared 4gag and the Witch of Endor l whom he fhoaldhave deffroyed,. and fo loft his Crown, hisKingdorn, and his Soul, which was faddeft of all.- Gideon had feventy fans, and but bne baftard, and yet that one bailard deflroyed all the refl. The jewith Rabbins report, that-the fame night that 'frau departed out of Egypt towards CanganAll the Idols and idolatrous .Ternes in Egypt, by lightning and earth- quakes were broken down : So when a man truly repents, all the Idols that were faupinhiSfoul, are call down. But, Secondly, God has fo connexed the du ties=of his Law one to another, that if there be not a confcientious care to walk according to all that the Law requires,a man hecomesa tranf- oreffor of the whole Law, accordino to that of Saint fames, g Chap.
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