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What
things
are required
in
true
repentance.
41''
Pfal.t43.6.
My
feule
thirtieth
after
thee, as
the thirj7ie land.
Pfal..t43`.E.
Which
thirfl
whofoeuer
feeleth,
he
may'
boldly
affure
him
-
felfe,that
he
is
in
the number
of
thole
v<lhome
Chia
calleth,
and
that
bee
will
fatiffie
him.
Whofoeuer
therefore
hungreth
and
thirfleth after the
grace;ofGod,and righteoufnes ofChrif};whofoeuer
is
wea-
rie and heauie
laden,
that
is,
who
fo
hath
a
true
fenfe
and
feeling
of
his
finnes,
and
is
vexed and
grieued with
the
burthen
thereof, and with
all his
heart
defireth
to bee
eafed
of
his
bade;
though
he
thinke
himfelfe in
a
moil
miferable
eflate, yet
if
he come
vnto
Chriíl,and with
blind
L'artemeus
crie
out,O
fonne
of
Dautd
haue mercy on
mee,I
may
fitly fay
vnto him,
as
it
was
faid-vnto
this
blind
man :.Bee
of
good
comfort,
for
Chrift
calleth
thee.
The
loft
thing
required in
thofe
whom
Chrifl
calleth,is,
§.Sec`s,
g.
that
they come
vnto him.
For
to whom fhould
wee come for
7.hc
loll
thine
eafe,butveto
Chrifl
himfelfe
?
feeing
there
is
neither
Saint
requiredis
nor Angel,that
can
eafe
vs,for
the
waight
ofonefin
would
thawe
com
pre
%them
downe into
hell
;
whereas our Sauiour
Chrill
is
able to beare the
burthen
of
our
finnes, nay he
bath
alreadie
borne them,
that
,1e
might
be delivered
from them.
As
it
I.Pet.2.s.o
is,r.Pet.
2...24.
neither
is
it likely,that either
Saint or Angell
would
fo
willingly
helps
vs as
our Sauiour
Chrifl
Iefus,
who
fo
tenderly
loued
vs
that
he
came
into the
-world
to
lay
downe
his
ovule moil precious life
as
a price
for
our redemp-
tion;
and
though they
were
willing, yet
they
haue
not the
likc.abilit_ievotohim,
who
bath
all .power
in heauen and
earth
committed vnto
him,for
working the works
of
our re-
M.
1:.27.
dem
tion.And therefore,feeing he wanteth neither loue,nor
pourer; let
vs
goe
vnto him,
and him onely.
Otherwife we
(hall cómit
a
double
follie,that
is,
we fhall-leaue
Chrifl,who
is
the
fountaine
ofliuing water,and
dig vnto our
felues
bro..
ken
ciflernes,which
will
hold no
water.
For there
is_not
falma- lere.21
3
tion
in
any
other, neither
is
there
among men any
other
name
vnder
heauen; whereby
mnítt be
fared.
as
it
is,.
A6les..4.12,
A&
+12°
Bee
is
the
way
which
leadeth vnto eucrlafting
happincffe;he
is
the
truth,
to
inflruca
vs
-in
all
the
counfail_es
of
God;
bee
is
t
iç:life.to reuiue,vs,
who
were
dead in our
finnes,
,yea
the life
e
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