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THE fore-mentioned point concerning the removing of Gods judgements doth now in particular, and after an especial manner concern us, ^*who are even in the flame of the fire of Gods wrath; and thereupon assembled together by fasting and prayer after a more then ordinary manner ⟨p. 10⟩to seek grace and favour of God; that so this day of humiliation may prove a day of reconciliation. For this end we are this day to enter into a solemn covenant with God: and as we desire to have this hot fire of the Plague or extinguished or at least slaked, so to remove the causes which have kindled the same, so far as we can find them out. When the Jews after the captivity on a day of fast entered into a new covenant with God, ^mthey put away their strange wives and children, because in taking them they sinned, and to hold them had been to continue in sin. In like manner, though we be wedded to our sins as to wives, and our sins be as dear as wives and children can be, yet must they be put away: else nor our persons, nor our prayers, nor any services that we perform, can be acceptable to God. Sins retained are as that ⁿbitterness which was on the waters in Marah, which made them that they could not be drunken: and as that