Chap. 42. an Expo/ition upon the Book of J o B. Verf. 6. repenting turns, but (port of God;they minded not God fincere- ly in them,but the removal of force rod or trouble that was come, or which they feared was coming upon them. They return to God in repenting, who repent with a holy refolve upon their hearts to obey God, and with a longing defire to enjoy God all the days of their life. Thus upon the occafion of robs flying, I repent, I have briefly opened the duty of repentance, of fuch a repentance as without all peradventure lob was then exercifed in : His was the grace of repentance, his repentance was wrought in his heart, chiefly by the immediate word and fpeakings of God to him ; He turned fully in it from all his pa(fionsand expoflulations with God(which were at that time his fpecial (in) to a meek, quiet fubmiflìon to the will of God, and telling in his difpenfations. All this was wrapped up in this Chart word, I repent. Further, confider, whenJob Paid, ¡repent in dull and a(he: ; he was not'then to begin his repentance, he had repented long be- fore ; yet then he began a new work of repentance, or then he re- newed his repentance. Hence note, Firfi ; New fnningocall for new repenting:. As the new leakings of a (hip calls for new pumpings and re- pairs; fo, I fay, new fins call for new zepentings.. There is a firfi repentance, and there is a fecond repentance : Firfi Repentance is our coming out of a Rate of fin, of which Chrifl (pike (Mat.. I I. 20, 21.) Then began he to upbraid the Cities, wherein mop of his mighty works were done, 6ecaufe they repented not : Wo unto yot- Chorazin, and wo unto you Beth faida ; for if the mighty works:. which were dons in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in fackcloth and afhes that is, they had come out of their fins. Thofe converts in the Alf: of the Apofiles (chap. z. 38.) repented, that is, they cameout of a finfol flute. Now, as there is a repentance, which I call our coming out of a Rate of fin ; fo there is a repentance, which is a coming off from this and that a& of fan; and this is the repentance which: job was upon.. Agatn,, $45
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