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Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /
Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume / by several ministers in and about London, preached in October, 1689.
London: printed by James Astwood for John Dunton, 1690
Sermon 9: Quest. What's the danger of a death-bed Repentance? SERMON IX.
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3. Another end may be, to render them that Crucified Christ inexcusable, when this Malefactor made so honourable a confession of him, to expose and shame the unbelief and hardness of the Rulers and Pharisees by the faith and repentance of a most flagitious Offender, and therewithal confirm the Word of Christ spoken formerly to them, that the Publicans and Harlots entered into the Kingdom of Heaven before them, Matth. 21.31.
3. Another end may be, to render them that Crucified Christ inexcusable, when this Malefactor made so honourable a confession of him, to expose and shame the unbelief and hardness of the Rulers and Pharisees by the faith and repentance of a most flagitious Offender, and therewithal confirm the Word of Christ spoken formerly to them, that the Publicans and Harlots entred into the Kingdom of Heaven before them, Matth. 21.31.
6. Suppose God do give them repentance at the last, yet they may have very little, it may be no comfort in it.
I. They may be ready to question the sincerity of it, and then they can have little comfort in it. Admit their condition be safe, yet comfortable it cannot be, so long as the truth of their repentance, from which their comfort should proceed, is so uncertain and questionable. To say nothing of their ignorance of the nature of repentance, and the methods of the Spirit in working it, having never found the like in themselves before, nor been acquainted with what others have felt, many things there are which sometimes may make them call what they find in themselves in question.