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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
To conclude. Take heed especially of those things which are the ordinary hinderances of a timely repentance.
I. Wrong notions of repentance.
1. That it is an easy thing, and so may be done at any time; that it is but sorrowing for sin, and crying God mercy for having offended him. This prevails with too many, that know not wherein the nature of it consists. Remember therefore that it is no easy thing to get a through change wrought in your hearts; to divorce your lusts to which you have been so long wedded, to part with those sins you love best, and engage in those ways of strict holiness, which of all things in the World you hate most. The old Man will fight hard ere he die. The flesh will never yield, and hardly be overcome. And if ever God work repentance to you, he will so work it as to make you work at it too, and labour after it, his grace using and employing your faculties. And what can you ever do either in seeking repentance before the infusion of the grace, or exercising it when infused; but you will find sin opposing you in it, and so creating difficulties in your work?
1. That it is an easie thing, and so may be done at any time; that it is but sorrowing for sin, and crying God mercy for having offended him. This prevails with too many, that know not wherein the nature of it consists. Remember therefore that it is no easie thing to get a through change wrought in your hearts; to divorce your lusts to which you have been so long wedded, to part with those sins you love best, and engage in those ways of strict holiness, which of all things in the World you hate most. The old Man will fight hard ere he die. The flesh will never yield, and hardly be overcom. And if ever God work repentance to you, he will so work it as to make you work at it too, and labour after it, his grace using and employing your faculties. And what can you ever do either in seeking repentance before the infusion of the grace, or exercising it when infused; but you will find sin opposing you in it, and so creating difficulties in your work?