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t48

Gold

Xemision.

tainly thou

may'ft

be

forry

at

the

heart,

and

yet

perifh for

all

that

;

I

make

no

queftion

but

Pats

was

forty

at his

heart,

and

wiih'd

it

had

never

been

done,

and

if

it

were to do

again,

he

would

never do

it

;

there

is as

much

expreft,

he

repented.,

and he

brought the

3o

pieces again

;

he was not

only

forrow-

ful,

but made

fatisfa

&ion

;

he

brought the money

back

again

that

he had

got

in

a

wicked way

:

and

therefore

if

you think

this

to

be

true repentance,

you

are

mightily

miftaken

,

but

wherein

is

it

that

we fail

?

It

is

not

for

me

now

to enter

on

the

Dot$rine of true

Repenta

nce, I

am

to

fpeak

of

it

fo

far

as

to

convince

tnen,that

it

is

not a ground

for

hope

of

pardon

of

fin

:

Mark

ir,

when

'tis

thus

with thee, thou

repented

be-

caufe thou

feeft that

fin

will

bring

thee into

danger

::

Now,

thou

haft

had

the pleafure

or

the profit

of

it

,

and

thou feefl

.

now it

will

bring

thee

into

trouble

and

danger

,

thou

art

for-

ry

that

ever thou

did'ft

it

:

certainly,

if

God

would

be

fatis-

tied

with

fuch

kind

of

forrow,

he

might

have

enough

of

it

in.

Hell

;.

for

there

is

yelling and

forrow,

becaufe

of

the

trou-

bles

that

fin

bath brought

upon

them

:

to

farrow

becaufe,

of

the

trouble that our

fins

bring

on

us is

meetly natural

,

and

flows

from

nature

it

Pelf,

and far from

a

faving

work of repen-

tance

;

therefore

the

repentance many hope to

have,

What

is

it

?

when

we

tell

them

of

their

fins,

they

fay,

they

hope

to

repent

;

What

do they

mean

?

Why

?

they

would

take

the

pleafure

of

fin, and when

the punifhment

comes, they

would

be

forry

for it,

and

repent

of

it

:

the

ordinary

way

to

put

men

offfrom

this plea

,

is

to

tell

them

How

do you know

you fhall live,

or

that,

your

hearts

(hall not

be

hardned

?

but

fuppofe

you do

live, and

that

you

have a

heart

to

do

as

you

fay,

yet

your

repentance may

fail

you

;

if your

repentance

be

no

other

than

that

which

comes

for

forrow

of

fin,

.

becaufe

of

the

punifhrraent,

it

will

fail you

:

certainly that repentance

that

muff

go for

currant

in

Heaven

is

of

another

nature

:

pof-

fibly

I may

Phew

afterwards what

is

true

and

fal'fe

forrow;

but

for the prefent

I

(hall

Phew

where

the miftake

lies

:.

Whofoever

therefore that

builds

their

believing

of

the

pardon

of

their

fin

meerly

on

their forrow,

and fuch

kind

of

forrow,

they

are like

a

man

that

would,

erec`$

.a

great

Building,

anti

lay