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91

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siop.a.

{hall

he

or

fhe

go

in

a

fenfiefs

way

to

God

in

feeking pardon

of

fin, and

think

to obtain

it

thus

?

you

go about it unfenfibly, and

your

hearts

are

not

ftirr'd,

but when

Chrift

carne

he

was fenfible

of

ir,

in

feeking to

God

about

this

bufinefs,

Heb.

5.7.

In

the

daycs

of

his

fiejh,obferve

Chrift

in

the

day

es

of

his

flefh,

did

offer

up

Prayers and

Supplications

;

How

?

with ffrong

crying'

and

tears.

What

?

{hall

Chrift

be

fo

finale

of

the

weight

and

bur-

den

of

fin,

when he was

to

Puffer,

that

he

fhould

Leek

the

Fa

:her

with

fuch

Prayers

?,

if

he

had

fad

but

one-word,

it had been

a

Prayer

;

but

he

fought

him

with

Prayers,

and

Prayers

with

cries

and

fupplications

;

and

not only fo, but with

ftrong

cries and

tears

:

let

thy

heart

be

rebuked

this

day for

the

fe.nflefnefs

of

ir,

.

in

going

to

God

in inch

a

flight

manner

in feeking

pardon

of

thy

fins.

Fifthly,

Thofe

are

to be

rebuked

that

in

feeking

pardon

of

fin,

do

indeed

but

daily

with

God

and

trifle

with

him

;

they

are not

at

all

ferious

in

it

;

whereas

if there

be

any buunefs

in

the

world,.

wherein we

had need

to

be

ferions,

'cis in

this.

But

you will fay,

Qtiefiz. Who

are

they

?

there

are

four

or

five

forts

that

do

but

dally with

.Anti.

God

in

feeking pardon

of

fin.

1. Thofe

that

cry,

and

teem

to be

very earneft

with

God

in

cry.

ing

to

him.

for

pardon,

andyet

Bill continue

in

love

to

their

fins,

and

abide in

the

practice

of

them

in

an

ordinary

courfe and

way

;

I

do

not

fpeak

of

thofe

that

feek

truly

for the pardon

of

their

fins,and

yet

may fometimes

be

overtaken

with

them again;

but

I

freak

of

the common

courfe of

People

;

they

come

to

God

and

intreat

him

to forgive them,

and yet continue

Rill

in

them.

I

fpeak

not

of

thofe that

are

fenflefs in

the

as

of

Confeflion,

of

their

fins, but

of

thofe that cry mightily unto

God

for pardon,

and

yet live

in

the

prat-lice

of

thofe

fins

they cry

to

God

for

par-

don

of

:

as

for inftance, confider

every

one

of you

what

fins

have

been

in

your

courfe of

life

;

I

put this to

you, either

you

have

prayed

to

God

to forgive

them, or

you

have

not

prayed

;

if.you

have

not

prayed

,

then you are molt

horrible

Atheifts

;

but

I

thank

God,I

pray every day

:Well,you

pray

to God

for

forgive

-

nefs

of

fin, and

yet

live

in

it daily

:

O

how do

people

thus

dally

with God

;

pray

again{}

fin, and

yet

commit

fin, and

fall

to it

again

;

pray again,and commit it again, and

this

is

the very

way

that