240 Chap. 42. An Expofition upon the Book,of J o s. Verf. 6' loath it, Iwould not live alwayes ; that is, not at all, not an hour longer in this world. He that is weary of his life, thinks, to live but aday, or a little longer, is to live alwayes,or that his life will never end. Thus, if amandoth truly loath and abhor his fin, be will not return to itagain, though it hash been as fweet to him as Manna, yea, as life it (elf, T do not fay, that he who laths and abhors his fin, can never relapre into the fame.fin, or be overta- ken with it again; but this I Cay, he that truly repents, neverde- lights in fin again, he never goeth back to ir, and licketh it up as a dog his vomit. Agood man mayfall into thefame fin, but be never returneth to the fame fin; be may beovertaken with the fame fin, tut he never take') up the famefin again.That's the Apoales word (Gal.6. i.)Ifany ofyou be overtaken with afault, &c.A good man may be overtaken with the fame fault, but he never taketh up that fault, nor runs a courfe to that finagain. I (hall only add thefc two words, for the working of our fouls to thisPelf-abhorrence. FirfF, The more we abhor our felves, the more God delight- eth in us; the more we are difpleafed with our fins, the more is he pleafed with our perlons , the worfe, the viler we are in our own eyes, the better we are, and the more beautiful in the eye of God. Secondly, Unlefs we abhor our (elves, Godwill abhor us. I may fay, malefs we fo repent as to abhor our felves, God will ab- hor our very repentance. There is no true repentance, without fome degree of felf-abhorrence; yea, of felf-condemnation. Let us not take up this word repentancetoo eafily,that is,when we know not what this wordfelf-abhorrence meanech. We defile this boly,thisprecious thing called repentance, when our hearts arenot fully taken off from that or thole fins, of which we fay we re- pent. All fuch would have that go for repentance towards God, which indeed is but a mocking of God, and cannever be joyned (fromwhich true repentancecannot be feparated) with faith to- ward our Lord Jefus Chriul (eÁ1s 20. 2r.) I abhormyfelf (laid yob) And repent in dull and afher. I (hail here give fomewhat about the nature of repentance in gene-
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