A=choiee Bed of Spices.- tred of fin alwayes iffues in a univerfal turning from fin.Now thefe eight arguments do fulficiently prove, that a true peni- tential turning is a univerfal turning ; a turning not from Tome fins, but from all fins. 29 IR But fome may be ready to *St and fay, Sir,this is a hard faying, who can hear it? who can bear it ? who ihalf.then be faxed ? for if a man repents not unlefs he turns from every fin, then there is not a man to be found in all the world that repents ; for there is not a man in all the wort!! that turns from every fin, that forfakes.every fin,, &c. i King. 8.46. For there is no man thatlinneth not. Prov.,2o. 9., Who can fay, I have made my heart clean, I am Imre from my fin : Itis a que- Ilion that implyes a Prong denial. Who can fay it, and fay it truly, that he. is pure from his fin ? furely none. He that (hall fay that he has made his heart clean, and that he is pure from his fin, fins info faying,;- and commonly there are none more unclean than thofe that fay, they have made their1 hearts clean, nor none more impure than they that fay they are pure from their fin, Eccl. 7. z o. For there is not a if411 m4n plan the earth, that doth goad and finneth aaot. Theft words in their abfolutefenfe, are a fultteflimony of the imperfe6tion of our inherent 'righteaufnefs in this life, and that even ju- fified perfons come very fhort of that exaa and perfe&t..obe- clience which the Law requireth, Trnes 3. 2. For in many things we offend 41, or (as the Greek has it) we fumble all. 'Tis a metaphor takp from Travellers walking on {bony or flippery ground, who are very apt to fumble or flide. This Apofle was worthily called fames the juft, and yet . he num- bers himfelf among the ref of the fanaified. ones, that in many things offended all. The ApoIlle does not fay, in ma- ny things they offend all, but in many things we offend all. We that have smore gifts than others, we that. have more grace than others, we that have more affurance than others, we that have more: experiences thamothers, . we that have more prefetvatives to keep us from fin than others, even we in many things offend all 5 nor the Apoftle doth not fay, in fame ObjeE. John 6. Co; . Job ;0, 3 T. Plal. 130.3. Chron. 6. 3S; job 7,3 Pfal. 5 I. f. Ponder upon ti-erc ScriptnreF,
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