av the Excellorcy of the Soul. 291 Now repeitançe cannot Stand with feeling fin light, much 3efs:widt itin fin : Repentance, whether before with or zfiter wee wiiluion now fpwxk of,, whether a Legal .repen- stance, or an Evangelicá1 repentance, yet it muft bee nun a aepentanoe ai mint bee apprehenfive and i'enfibl.e of fin, .greater evilthun.á lthe *ills that it is liable to here in t hew/odd '; ,It inuitfeel fin, asitis again ftGod,feel fin, as fin, 'fo as to bee a burden to it (the meafure of it, how far, and how weighty fn ilsould bee, wee do not now (land up- on) but that fin ihould be found a great burden, yea an intoilerable burden , fo that were it not for an infinite otediatour, the foul could not fiand under the burden, that is neceft'ary 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 forne meafure the weight and burden of fin. Sixthly , Again, that man or woman that walks after the f efh, in a courfeofifin, to give fat+isfa &ion and content- ment unto the flefh, that makes it to bee the great care and indeavour of it for to fatisfie the flefh, full of you , whofe confciences tell you, thatthe contentment of your hearts is fore flefhly thing, and that in the courfe of your lives you walk after the flefh, certainly if you fhould now die, your fouls would bee loft; and that is clear out of Rom. 8. a . T here is no condemnation to them that are In Chrift 3e- fits, that sooknot after the flefh, hut after the fpirit. There- fore thofe that do not walk after the fpirit, but after the flefh, there is condemnation unto them at the prefent; O l if men had but enlightened and ftirring confciences, how calk would it bee for men and women to fee themfelves 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 fhould now die, my foul would bee loft e- ternally; and fo that other place, in Rom. 8. They that live after the flefh fhall die; that is, perifh eternally; if your hearts bee after the flefh, after flefhly things , and they are the O o 2 things
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