t t 6 Gofiel RemfSion. gainfan, would'ßthou not confume ur ? fo after God has de- livered us from condemnation, the guilt offin, and the fpirit of bondage ; What ? to trelpafs again, it is juif with God to beangry with us, Pfal. 85. 8. The Lordwill Meal;,peace----, but let them not return again to folly ; if God (peak peace, O return not again to folly ; I appeal unto you, bath God ever (poke peace to your fouls ? Have you heard the voice of gladnefs fpeaking in your hearts, faying, Son, or Daughter be ofgoodchear, go inpeace, thy fins are pardoned ? Have you not heard this? If you have not, you had need to get it ; if you have, then return not again to the fame fin that God bath gracioufly pardoned. r . Returnnot to thefame fin. 2. Re- turn not to anyotherfan. I. Return not to the fame fin ; it is a queftion, and a great cafeof Confcielice, Whether it be poffi- ble for a Childof Godafter God bath dealt unto him the pardon offin, whether he may commit thatfa again ? force have de- nyed it ; I remember force antient Divines , Origen and Yertullian upon thofe words in Heb. 6. For it it impof;'ible for thole that were once inlightned ,-------i f they findfall away to renew them by repentance ; he applies it to the tin of unclean neIs and lays he, a fecoid repentance is not promifed in the Name of Chrif} to Adulterers and Fornicators ; thus I may boldly fay, we do not find any certain exprefs exam- ple in all the Book of God, of any Child of God that did fall into the fame grofs outward fins of er an acival repen- tance, and making up his peace with God for fin ; we find no exprefs Scripture : I do not fay, we find no example of the Children of God that have not committed the fame fin again, as Peter and Lot , but we find no example of any grofs fin that they have fain into : mark ir, after their re- pentance and reconciliation ; what was done anvils , was done before they came to have it laid home unto their Con- fciences, and applyed unto their hearts for the humbling of their fouls in making their peace with God : True, David committed Adultery, but never the fecond time , after he had his bones broken, he fell not again : and fo Peter, after he went out andwept bitterly, he neverdenyed his Mailer again ; and fo Abraham equivocated , but we read not, that after any
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