c3 2 .That /'here are but, t'ime. I !hallt1ot fiand to tell you whnt fnre-vvd.' objeCtions are propofcd by fon1e· great and learned me11 againfl: the v~lidity - and acceptablcnefs of fuch a repentance: . fotne of then1 perhaps have been too per– emptory and fev~re. True and -unfeigned repentance, which indudeth the fincere love ,.of God, and refignation to him, will nev~r come too late; the foundation of heaven Is I lakl in- the fo:uls of thofe that have it. But if . I '\Ve confider what agreat n1atter true repent- - ance is, the fhortnefs of the tin1e, andhind 4 • eran'ces of a difiel=11pered body, and the or– dinary relapfes of n1en ·who have pron1ifed fair on fuch occa'Gons, and have out-lived – that fickn~fs they thought had been n1or:.. tal; we" cannot , but acknowledge, thitt a deathbed-repentance is feldon1 fincere; and / that it is unfit titne ~o begin to fight wi.th principalities and powers; ·when perhaps we --: ·have not fhength to turn ourfelves on our beds j in a wora, that of thofe who do thus ~delay/ and put off the bu.finefs, very fevv !hall be faved. - \Vhen we ha:ve ·faid all that w-e can fay, there are many will never be p~rfuaded of . the truth of that which we have been prov– ing. They cannot think it conG.fi-ent wirh the goodnefs and n1crcy of God, that the Preatefr
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