Chap. 7. AuExpo(itioxupoutbeB-ookofJOß Verf.2o, 6$r Judas. but when God gives them belt dayes, they are ready to (peak wort of themfelves c And when they receive moil mer- cies from God, then God receives moil and deepen acknowledg- ments ofGa from them. They are never fo humble in the fight of fin, as when they are moil exalted in tieing the falvationofthe Lord. Thegoednefs of God leads them to this repentance, they are not driven to it, by wrath and thuunder. Secondly they confefs, feelingly; whe they fay they have fin- ned they know what they fay . They tatte thebi tternefs offin and groanunder the burdenfomenefs of it as 3i palles out m confef- fion. A natural mans coafdfions run through him, as water though a pipe, which leaves no imprdion or lent there, nor do they ( upon the matter)any more raft what fin is, then the pipe dothof what reittih water is. Or if a natural man feels any thing in coufcfiion it is the evil of punishment feared, not the evil of his fincommitted. Thirdly, they confefs fincerely ; theymean what they fay, & are in earneti both with God and their one Souls. blefed is ti?e man in wholeJpirit there is noguile, Pfal. 32, 2. Thenatural man cati out his tins by confdliions, as Sea, men call their goods over- board in a form, which in the calm they with for again. They fo cal out the evil fpirit, that they are content_to receive him- again when he returns, though, it be with leven work then, him, fell. Even while they confefs fin with their lips, they keep it like a fweet bit, upon their tongues : And with it well enough, while they fpcake it very ill, Fourthly, they confefs beleevingly ; while they have an eye offorrow upon fin, they have an eyeof Faith upon Chrift s Was laid he had tinned in betrayng innocent blood ( Mat. 27. 4. ) but inilead of walbing in that blood he defiles hit-tit-elf with his own, hegoes away and hangs himfelf. No wicked man in the world ( continuing in that fate) did ever mix Faith with his forrowcs, or beleving, with confining he had finned. So much for the clea- ring of the words, and the fenceof this general confcflion. Hence obferve, bra, While a Godlyman maintains bus innocency, aced juilifierbimfellf before men, he willingly acknowledges bis inftrmity,and judges him- felf before God. lob had (pent much time in wiping off the afper- fions cati upon him by his friends, but he charges himlelf with . his failings in the fight ofGod. Secondly obferve,
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