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What things.are
required
in
trite
repentance.
417
any
but
thole who
finding
their
finnes
to
bee
a heauie
bur-
then,
are
wearie,and
come
vnto
him
to be
freed
from them;
he
came
into the woild
to
be
a
Phyfitian, not to thofe who
feele no
infirmitie,but
to-
thofe who
are ficke
and
difeafed;
he
came
to
giue
life
to
thofe
alone
who
are
dead in
their
fins
and
trefpaffes;
neither
will the
Lord
Phew
mercy
vino
any,
but
vnto thofe
alone
who
perceiue
their
eflate
to bee mofl
wretched and
miferable.
For who
can
imagine
that
the
Lord
who
is
moil infinite
in wifedome,
íhould
vnaduifedly
bellow
his benefits
vpon
fuch,
as
finding no want
of
them,
do
not
delire
them, when
they
are
without
them
;
nor
eíléeme
them
though
they
had
them,
and confequently will neuer be truely thankefull for
that
which they
neither want,defire,nor
efleeme?who
can
in
reafon
conceiue
that
he will
offer
himfelfe
to
bee
a
Sauiour
to
fuch as
doe
not
thinke
themfelues
loft and condemned;
or to
bee
their
redeemer
who
will
not
acknowledge
that
they
are in
captiuitie; or
that
he
will
bellow the
riches
of
his
righteouftteffe vpon
fuch
proud
beggers,
as find
no need
thereof, being righteous inough
themfelues in
their owne
conceipts?
that
bee
will
vainely fpend his precious
bloud in
-wafhing
ofthofe
who thinke
themfelues Beane
already,
and
need
no
fuch
purging; that
he will in compaflìon eafe
thofe
ofthe
burthen
of
their
finnes
who
were neuer
troubled
with
bearing
of
them;
that
hee will
offer
them
any Phyficke
who
will
not
acknowledge
themfelues lick;
or
to
giue
life
to
thofe
who
will
not
confeffe
that
they
are
dead
in
finne;
and
who
can
imagine
that
the
Lordwill
euer
Phew
to
thofe .hi;
mercy, who will neuer
íhew
the Lord
their wretched mi-
Eerie?
Whofoeuer therefore
haue
not a true
fence and
feeling
of
the
heauie
burthen
of
their
finnes;
they
will neuer come
vnto
Chrifl; neither
can
theyeuer
haue any aflitrance
that
he
will
eafe
them, andconfequently
they
are deflitute
ofa
true
faith
which
is
the chicle
condition
ofthe
couenant
ofgrace;
but
as
they
want faith,
lo
all()
they
can neuer
attaine vnto
true
repentance.For
fo
long
as
they
haue
not
the
fence
of
their
£innes,they
are
not
grieued
with them, neither
doethey
de-
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