A choice Bed of Spices. inconftancy, Pfal. 78. 8. whofe fpirit was not fledfaft with God, Ver. 37.. Neither were they ftedf, ft in his Covenant, &c. An hypocrite puts off his fins in the day of aciverfity (as he doth his garments when he goes to bed) with an intent to Fut them on again in the morning of profperith Ver. 34,35,36. when he flew them then they fought him, and they returned and en- prired early after god ; and they remembred that- God was their Rock,. and the kigh God, their Redeemer ; Neverthelefs they did. Patter him with their mouth, and they lyed unto him with their tongues. In the language of the bleffed Scripture, he is a dog that returns to his vomit again, and fuch a dog. was Judas ; and he is a Nine that returns to the wallowing in the mire a- gain, and fuch a fwine was Demos ; and fuch doos and fwine are all hypocrites. It is an extraordinary vanity in fome men to lay afide their fins for a time, but with a purpofe to return to them again ; as they fable it of the Serpent that layeth afide his poyfon when he goeth to drink, and when he hath drank, i he returns to it again. It s a fad and fore evil, when men fay to their, lufts,asA§r.lham raid to his fervants .Abide. you here, and 1 will go and werfhip, and return again unto you, Gen. 22. 5.' doubtlefs fuch fouls are as far off from found repentance, as light,is from darknefs, or- as hell is from heaven, &c. But in what refpear is true penitential turning from fin, fuch turning from fin, as never to return tofu any more ? In whit re- f-pear is the penitents turning from lin,acontinssed and fledfafi turn- ing from fin, Sol. This is a very fober, fetious, *eighty queflion, and befpeakes a very fober, ferious and fatisfaetory Anfwer, and therefore I. would anfwer the queflion Negatively. 2. Affir,tnatively, Negatively, It is not .fuch 'a turning from fin as never to fin more, t Xing., 8. 46. Fet there is no man, that finneth not.. Prov. 20. 9. Who can fay, 1 have made my heart clean? I arts pure from my fin ? Prov.z4.1 6. e4 jolt man falletbfeven times, and 2, Pct, 2. 20, 2/, ZZ.
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