Caryl - Houston-Packer Collection BS1415 .C37 v7

Chap. 2L. An Expoftian upon the beckcf JOB. Verf 23. Z37 firft fencefor fin it felfe;and then this latter claufe muff be under- flood as a duty ; If thou returne to the Allmighty, thoujhalt be built up, that ¡halt put away iniquityfarrefrom tbee,that is. It is thy duty to put away iniquityfarfrom thee; as ifElipha.c here did fet forth more fully what repentance is ; thou ¡halt be built up if thou returne to the AIlrtlighty ; that is, ifthou returne fo as to put thy iniquity farce from thee ; if we take iniquity in the fecond fence, for the punifhment of iniquity, then the words are a pro - mife, as if he had Paid, if thou return, &c. then thou ¡halt rid ar,d- difeharge thy felf and thy ho.afe of all the troublefome effeéts of fin ; Thou(halt put Iniquity, orall the fad iffues and con¡quents of iniquity farre from thee, noneof them [hall touch thee to an- noy thee. Mr Broughton pitcheth upon the former fence in his tranf ati- on ;1f thou raftfar offunrighteoufneffefront thy tents. I hat gives a perfe& fence to the whole fentence, and from thence we may Obferve ; That, in true repentance fin mull be utterly caft r f and put away. We returnenot at all to the Allmighty. -till we wholly turne from fin, nor will the Allmighty build upour houfe, till we put iniquity quite out ofour houle; till we turee it out ofhoufeand home ; out of the houfe ofour family, out of the home of our hearts ; nor is itenough to put finne away a little,or a littioway, but it muff be put far away. There are_feverall degrees ofput- ting away fin;firft,There is a porting it awayout ofour ptaäice, or converfation, fo that it bathno vifible being or abode in us or with us. This is a putting of fin away, but this is not a purring offin farre away. Secondly, There is a putting of it out ofour affedtions, or out ofour hearts ; novas if we could keep it(while we are in the body) from having a placeor dwelling there, but as keeping it from having a throne or reigning there. This is to put fin very farre away fromus ; it is nogreat thing to put finne out ofour hands, but 'cis hard to get it out ofour hearts ; hypocrites will (pofi'ibly) lay downe the practice of it, bur HI their fpirits cleave to it, they arenot at all alienated from the love of its but only reftrained from the aí`ting of it , fuch are oftentimes kept from doinginiquity,but theydonotatal put away their iniquity, much leffe put it far away.As it is with a natural! man inreference to his doingofGood, fo to his not doingof evil! ; if good be at any

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