Brooks - BT750 .B7 1669

274. .13-ox ofpr emus Ointment ----- yoa are no true peintents, and you will certainly lofe your fouls , and all the great and glorious things of -,another world. 4Q. Y Ze. Hof. 14. If, The third Anfwer. Thirdl y, A true penitential turning is -a conft Int and eon- ! tinuecl turning from fin. As it is total in reipea of the a&, fo it is final in refpeot of the time. True repentance takes an !eve:gal:line farewel, an everlaftino adieu of fin ; it faith with 2:7 the Spoufe; S. 3. I have put off my coat, how than I put it on? I have found the fmart of fin, I have put off the garments of the old man, the. rags of old Adam) and how II-tall I put them on again ? The burnt child will dread the fire. The man that hath fmarted for Suretyfhip, will by no means be perfwaded to come again into bonds, though you urge him to it never fo frequently, never fo flrongly, never fo rhetorically, yet he will tell you he has fmarted for it, he has paid dear for it, and therefore you muff excufe him ; he is peremptorily refolved, nay he hath ferioufly vowed, againft it 3 and though he be never fo much entreated, and by varie- ty of arguments importuned, yet ftill he remains inexorable. A Chriftian that hath truly repented,is fo fenfible of the free- nefs and fweetriefs of the grace of God on the one hand, and of the weight of fin and wrath of God on the other hand, that he is highly refolved never to have. any more to do with Idols, never, to meddle more with thofe burning coals. True repentance is a continued a &, a repentance never to be re- pented of. The true penitent is every day a turning further and further from fin, and neerer and neerer to God. There is nothing that fetches 'Co many tears from a penitent man's eyes, .nor fo many fighs and groans from a penitent man's heart as-this, that he can get no further off from fin, and that he can get no neerer nor no cloffer to God. Repentance for fin, and awilling continuance in fin, cannot contift in the fame fubjea. A tincere penitent makes as much confcience of repenting daily, as he doth of believing daily, and he can t .t as eafily content himfelf with one aol of faith, or love, or fear,

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