Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

5. This Impenitency hath much folly in it, as well as sin. For men to run themselves into the destruction which they might avoid, and refuse the offers of God's mercy and grace in the Gospel, is not this folly? He is called a fool that hath a price in his hand, and hath not an heart to use it, Prov. 17.16. And the Virgins in the Parable, that lost their Season of entering in with the Bridegroom, are styled foolish Virgins, Matth. 25. And are not Sinners that continue in their sin and impenitency under the Gospel, thus foolish? For they have set before them the fairest price, and the richest seasons. The Prodigal in the Parable, when he came home to his Father, is said to come to himself: ¹So when a Sinner repents, and comes home to God, he now comes to himself, as if his former life was folly and madness.

5. This Impenitency hath much folly in it, as well as sin. For men to run themselves into the destruction which they might avoid, and refuse the offers of God's mercy and grace in the Gospel, is not this folly? He is call'd a fool that hath a price in his hand, and hath not an heart to use it, Prov. 17.16. And the Virgins in the Parable, that lost their Season of entring in with the Bridegroom, are styled foolish Virgins, Matth. 25. And are not Sinners that continue in their sin and impenitency under the Gospel, thus foolish? For they have set before them the fairest price, and the richest seasons. The Prodigal in the Parable, when he came home to his Father, is said to come to himself: ¹So when a Sinner repents, and comes home to God, he now comes to himself, as if his former life was folly and madness.

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