A choice Bed of Spices. fear, or hope, or joys or obedience, as he -cal content him- fell* with one aOli of repentance. My fins are ever befre me. This is the voice of every true penitent; Oh, that I might fin no more I. Oh, that I might never dithonour God more !. Oh, that I might never walk contrary to, Jefus Chrift more ! Oh, that I might never -grieve the fpirit of grace rnore.To fin is common to man, yea to the bell man in all the world, but to continue in a courfe of fin, is only proper to a wicked man. To err and fail that's humane, but to maintain a league or friendfhip with fin, that is diabolical. Though a true penitent .dares not obi-ilium-, in -a trade, a path of fin, vhilft he lives in this world, yet tin will continue in him whilll he continues in this world; though fin and grace were not born together, and though fin and grace [hall never die together, yet whilit a penitent man lives in this world they mull live together. 'Ti s one thing for fin to continue in-us,' and 'tis anotheinthing for us to continue in fin. The Apoille having clofed the fifth Chapter of his Epiftle to the Romans, in the triumph of Gofpel grace, That as in bath reigned into - de4h, fo grace might .,reign throsigh righteoarnefs unto eternal life, by jefus- C brill oar Lord, begins the next with a preVention of the abufe of this grace ; what AO we fay then ? fhall vie conti- ant is fin that grace mly aboand? God forbid. How Aall we that are dead to fin, live any longer therein ? To live in fin, in the face of Gofpel-grace is in.ofrunreafonable, and to a gracious and ingenious nature itnpoffible ; the very implyes a i'kind of impotfibility. Such as were once dead in fin, and ON by Gofpel-grace are dead to fin, fuch can no longer con- tinue in fin. Look, as 'cis not the meer falling into the water 'that drowns a man, but his lying and continuing in it ; fo it is not a meer falling fin that -4iimns a man, that drowns a ulna, that everlathingry undoes:a Alan, but his living in it, his. :continuing Itis. bad to but 'tis in7nitely worfe to ,continue in fin. The Era bell is not to fin,the next belie i3 not to continue in fin, no not for an hour, a Pal- fpeaks in ano- :ti-rer cafe (Gal. 2. 5'.) To whom oe gave place by fubjeaion, no not. .1 )for an hoar. Certainly to argue from Gofpel-mercy to finful Ilibetty, is the Devil's Logiek. The more a man lives in the N n 2 fig I 275 it Pial. 51.3. / John r. $3, to. 25z 5. 19. 1.8. 15,18. 139.24. Rom.. ?. 22, Rom; 6. r, z,
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