494 OfConverfion, or Turningunto God. SECT. 1X Vie t. Ore r. Is Coeverfiona breaking, wounding, tearing and rendingof the heart? then youMay quickly judgehow remotethey are from thisbleffedellato,that make it their bufineffe to keep their hearts jolly, [ecure, merry andfull of cafe. Oh they mutt hearnothing, that mull be like a two-edged [word at their hearts ; you mutt never tell themof hell, and the day of judgement, of the narrowaria way to heaven. Oh bring not thefe [ad and troublefome things to theirears. Oh thou foo- lifhwretch, that doll wilfully fat thy foul fordeftruaion. Oh think that the word of God never works as it shoulddo,till it hath grieved thee, difeafed thee, till it bath madeall worldlydelights bitter to thee. Dolt thou think to eat and drink, and fin, and to have the good things of this life, andyet no threatning enter into thyheart 2Ohwert thounot bewitched, andhardned by fin, this prefentdifcourfe would fall like fireinto thy Bowels; and if there werenothing to rend and tear thy heart, the very civil and religious rents that are amongft us , might move thee: What woundings and [endingshave there been of the body by the fwodd ? What religious tracings in opinionsand affeetions t Doth not the Lord then teach us by thefe rents and diflraétions what we should doe in our hearts ? And if after all this thou findefl thy heart like Leviathans skin impenetrable, and fayeit, How may my heart be rent, and thus gracionfly affeaed? I fay, depend upun the power= ful preaching of the Word: That is appointed by God, not only to fetFather a- gainft Son, and Son againft Father, but aman againft himfelf,hisheart againft his heart, his offidlions againft oneanother. tittIOttitittAttilAtttttedt& S ERMON LXXXIII. Of thelini.ry of the Wordas the e7Vleans of Converlion, vlth the other Ends thereof, &c. J E R E M. 23. 22. But if they hadfloodin my Connfell, and had oaufedmy people to hear my words, then they ß,auld have turned themfrom their evill;wayes,? and from theevil[ of their doings. THis Chapter hath twomainprincipal parts; the tuft is Promiffory,the kcond Comminatory. ThePromiffory isof a three-fold benefit. a. Reduaion from Captivi- tie. 2. Godly and holy Governours,both Civil and Ecclefialtjcal. 3. TheMillion of Chrift, who isdefcribed in hisglorious Office, he [hall be called, The Lord oar Righteoufnefe. Prophets, TheComminatory beginneth verfe 9 againft the falfe and wicked as the fountain of all thewickednetk in 7erxfalem. The fins theyare accukd of, areaprophaning of theholy things of God, Adulteries,and fwearmgs; as alfoHy- pocribes, which, notantsy they themfelves were guilty of,but infeeted others al- to. The wicked lives of Minilters make agreat deal of Atheifmamong people y
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