88 I Jleep. f ~------------------------1 SEa ~ Ill. fin, he temptsusnot tobealhamed todo that we are afhamed to confeffe : fo we by filence keep Satans counfell againll: our owne foules. Ifwe accufe our felves)we put himout ofoffice, who isthe accuflrofthe ~rethren~ . 3• We prevent likewi[e malicious imputati. ons from the world. \...Auf!inanfwered roundly and well when hewas upbraided with the finnes l ~12 tu repreof his former age : what,thou (faith he) lindeft henJis,ega . faultwith,I havecondemned in my fdfe before. Jamnavi. 4• This ingenuous dealing ea(erh the fouie, givingventtoth~griefe of it:whiles thear.row.es. head lEeks in the woundkwill not he.ale:. Sinnc Ferrumin w.!~ unconfdfed is lik~. a broken peece of rufiyyron · ncre. inthehody,it mull: begottenout, elfe it will by · ranckling and fellring·caufe more dang~r. It is like poifon in the fl:oruacke,ifit be not prefently caft up it will infect the whole body.Isitnotbet– ter~otake iliarne to.our felves now, than to be athamed hereaf~r· before Angels, Devils and · Men-: Howcarefull is God ofus, by this privare i way toprevent future iliame~ ; • This faith full dealing witn·our felves is– oft a meanes ofprefenc delivery out ofany trou– ble. D~vidinthe· 3z.P[alme 4· wasiAagreacdi– fl:emper bothof body and fpirit ; his moifiure was turned into the drought of: Summer. It is. · thought he made this Pfalme between the time · ofhis fin and his.pardon.What courfeeakerhhe~. IfAid(faith he)that is,I refolvedto-confij[e my fin, and. thou forgttvep the iniquity ofmyfin; Upon a\ freeand fulJ,a faithfull, and ingen.uol'\S confeffi~ . on,,
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