453 Of Converfion, or Turningunto God. Sa MKtIttMtttdAMIVAtttgt4 70:7474411 *****VVO*411 S E R M O N LXX V I. That Conner/ionputs a e.9l'fan upon leavinghiaBe- lovedSin; The reafon of the difference-ofDar- linoSins in men, andthe Signs by which a Man cta may know his belovedSin. JEREM.18.Ir. Return ye now, every one frein bisevigwayer. THefe words ( you heard) were the fecond part.of feremjab's Commiffion; thematter whereof is exhortatory, and in that the duty, and the,rime. of, theduty have beenconvdrred The third thing inorder, tobe ptofemred, is the (object, with the appropriation of it, Everynsan. from hisevil ways', Be-, lid ts the common and general fins, wherein all had defiled.themfelves, there were, alfopeculiar darling and beloved fins, that every one had,,efpoufed pattieularlyy, to, themfelves: If therefore they would declare their fincere, and unfeigned Con- verfion unto God, they were to throw away thefe Daliloks to façrifee theft: Ifaacs, their onely fins, which they loved fo much. A man may leavemany fine, without any trouble , fo as it be not that to which he is dearly ingaged. Olf. That true Converfon will put a manupen the forfaking his dear readdelavedfg : Hewill not as Lot, delire to havea little one fpared: So, Lord, I willpray, hear,, turn unto thee; onelyin this (pare me. Some fáy, that Naaman the,Syrian, was not rruely converted, bccaufe he [luck at one belovedfn, for whenhe profferedi his letame to the trueGod,promifing to take him for the onlyLójd,headdeth,Par don thyServant in one thing, that when I gee down into tb,tbuffoofRittwon., al dpal, ,[Defier lean onme,I alto then bowdown,2King.y,st'g.They.that make hito ncc atrue, Convert, fay, here washypocrite. ThisOtlice was a placeokhonour.arsd;ptofir,,, and fo thoughhe would acknowledge the true God in many things .;_.yetalliS,hy eill way he would not leave; I!will not dttermine that point of his trueCanvey7, fon ; but certainly this is avery frequent.mifcarriage in theft dayes; Many heap; the Wordgladly, receiveit with tome joy, anddo manythings willingly; but the4a they areheld inone firing, there is one dead Fly,and that marreth the Box òfoynt- ment, fothat it palleth a air-Unitive but on a man, and all his Religion. As in that Naaman we inftanced in, it is raid he was agreat man, andofgreat authority in the land, but he was a Leper, and that marred all : fo it is here, he prayeth, he heareth, heconformeth co many godly things ; but there is loch a finne, fuch a lull, and That undoeth ail; and as every man may havehi;,particular fin; fo its obfervcd, that Na. rions have their proper fins. The 7ewei in former times were above alines prone CO
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