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On the
Excellency
of
the
Soul.
291
blow
repentance
cannot;fla?nd
with feeling tin light,
much
lefs
with
joy
i11
fin
:
epentance,whetber
befo_e
Faith or
after,
wee
_wiiirnor
now
tpealt of, whether
a
Legal
repen
-
rtance,
orun
Evangelical
repentance,
yet it
mutt
bee
such
a
repentance
as
mull
bee apprehenfive
and fenfible of
fin,
zs;
grearerevilxbain.ùl -lthe
lls
that
;it is
liable
to
here in
the
world';
.It ¡mil
fee
I'fin,
asitis
againftGod,feelfin,
as
fin,
fo as
to
bee a burden to it
(the
meafure
of
ir,
how
far,
and
how
weighty
fn
fhould
.bee,
wee do
not
now
(land up-
on) but
that
fin
should bee
found
a
great
burden,
yea
an
inroilerable burden
, fo
that were
it
not
for an
infinite
Jolediatour,
the
foul
could not (land
under
the
burden,
that
is
necetfary
in
the
work
of
repentance,
and
fo
the
foul
to
come
toforrow for
fin,
as
fin;
and this
is
the
repentance
which
is
unto life,
which
cannot
bee
except the
foul
Both
feel
in
force
meafure the weight
and burden
of
fin.
Sixtihly
,
Again,
that
man
or
woman
that
walks after
the
Celli, in
a
courfeafifin,
to
give fatisfa
&ion and
content-
ment unto
the
fiefh,
that
makes
it to
bee
the great
care
and indeavour of
it
for
to
fatisfie
the flefh,
fuch
of
you ,
whofe
confciences
tell
you,
thatthe
contentment
of your
hearts
is
foine flefhly
thing, and that in
the
courfe
of
your
lives you
walk
after the flefh,
certainly
if
you
hould
now
die, your
fouls
would
bee
loft;
and
that
is
clear out of
Rom.
8.
I.
T
here is
no
condemnation
to
them
that
are
*in
Cbrift
Je-
fits,
that
roaiknot
after the
/leJh,
but
after
the
fpirit. There-
fore thofe
that
do
not walk
after the fpirit, but after
the
flefh, there is
condemnation
unto them
at the present;
O
1
if
men
had
but enlightened and
ftirring confciences, how
ea
fie
would it
bee
for
Inca
and women
to
fee
thetnfelves
in
a
reftlefs condition, and
to
conclude,
that if
thefe things
be
the
truths of
God,
then
I
am
in fuch
a
condition, and
though
I
do
not
know
what
God
may work
for
time
to
come,
yet
if
I
should now
die,
my foul
would bee loft
e-
ternally; and
fo
that
other place,
in
Rom.
8.
They
that
live
after
the fiejh
fhall
die;
that is, perifh
eternally; if
yourherts
bee
after the
flefh, after
fierily
things
,
and
they are the
O
o
a
thing;