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SeJ.q..
The
former
point
prowled
by.oarticu!ar
teJtimonies.
Rom.á
z.
I.
144t,9.t3.
s.Tim. 415.
Math.18.ts.
Eram3.6,
41a,
what
thíngs'tzre
required in trr:e
repentance.
firm
and forfake them,
and
as
thofe
Rho
bearing
and
are
not
vexed
with
the
waight,
they
are
not
wearie.
of
bearing
it,nor
defirous
to kaue
it;fo thofe who
be-
ing
loaded with
the
vnfupportableburthen
of
their
finites,
and haue no
Ionic
ofthe
waight,
they
are
not
grieued `with
wearineffe
nor defirousto
be freed
from ,it, and confequent-
ly they
are
defiitute
oftrue
repentance, which
is
nothing
els
but
an
harty
griefe and
a
true.
furrow
for our
finnes
pafi,and
an earnefi
defire
and indeuour.
to
leaue
and
forfake them
in
the
time to come.
So
that
whofoeuer
haue not
a
true
fenfe
and
feeling
of
the
vnfupportable
waight offinne,
they
are
défiitute
of
true
faith and
repentance; and therefore the
promife's
ofthe
Gof-
pell
being
made onely to
the faithfull
and
repentant
(inners,
doe
not
appertaine
vnto
them:
Which
may
more euidently
appeare
if
wee confider force
of
the
particulars;Efay
6i.ì.It
isfaid
that
our
Sauiour
Chrifi
was
fent
to
preach
glad
tidings
unto
the
poore, to binde
vp
the
broken
barted,to
preach
l;
bestie
td
she
cap
tiues,ando.them
that
are
bossnd,thepenin
-
of
theprifon.
2.
To
comfort
all that
mourne,
and togruevnto
Them
6eautie_forh
.arlics,
the
oyle
o
f
boy
for
mourning,
ant
ithe
garment
of
gladne
for
the
f
irit of
heauine
ffe.
Math.g.
r
3.our
fay
niour
faith
that
har
came
not
to
call
the righteous,
but
!inners
to
repentance:
and
thrr
.Apofile
witneifeth
ofhim,that
he carne
into
the worldroflare
¡inners,
r.Tim.
r..
I
5.
If
therefore
we be
not
poore
in
fpirit
and
broken
hatted, ifwe
be
not
tniferable captiues,heauie
mour-
ners,and wretched
fiuner-s,our
Sauiour
hriti
was
not
fent
to
preach
the
glad tidings
of
the
GofpeIl vntows,
hee
will
not
giue
vs
liberri-e
nor affuord
vs
anie
comfort,
he came
not
to
call vs,
neither will heefaue
vs. So
our Sauiour profeffeth;
Math. i
8. r
7.
that
he
came to
fame.
that
which
was
loft,
and to
fetch
home
thew
zndringiheepe.
Iftherefore
wee
bee
not
loft
in
our
feltìes.wee fhaIl
neuer bee found
ofChrifi;
if
Wee
doe
not
confeffè'
with
,the
Prophet
'Efar,
that
wee
haúe
gone
affray
like wandring
fheepe, he will neuer
feeke vs,
nor
cary
vs on his bleffed
fhouldèrs
to
the fileepf6ld
of
eternall hap-
pineffe.
In
a
word,
as
without
the
fenfe
of
finne, we
can
ne-
r
attai:ne
vnto
faith
and
repentance,
fo
without
faith and
repentance
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