R. B. 1. And is there not sin among us,1 even among us also? And are the sins of such as we, no Causes of our public calamities? And would you thus leave us all desperate in Impenitency? May not we Repent? and must we not Repent, if we will be forgiven? When we are freed from the Condition of the Law of Works, is Repentance become so intolerable and hard a Condition? If we Repent not, shall we not all perish, Luke 13. 3, 5. Do Angels rejoice at a sinners Repentance; and shall we take him for their enemy, that calls them to it? 2. Is not Impenitency a greater Reproach to us, in the eyes of those by whom we suffer, than our Repentance would be? And doth it not exasperate them to see men justify unquestionable sin? 3. What if God Record even good mens sins, and tell a David what evil they should bring upon his house? and what a plague his numbering the people brought on his Kingdom; and so of others? Doth he hereby expose them to be odious? No, but by Repentance, would make them amiable. 4. Is not sin odious wherever it is found? And God is no respectre of persons? Must we not loath our selves for it? It is he that sinneth, that maketh himself ⟨p. 32⟩[…] ⟨p. 33⟩[…] ⟨p. 34⟩odious; and he that calleth him to Repentance, would take away his odiousness (Though the sin of a penitent Manasseh may cause the Captivity.) And he that justifieth it, and fathereth it on Christ, and the Spirit, and Religion, would make Christ, and the Spirit, and Religion, and the Church odious, lest he should be known to be so himself. 5. And do not most good Ministers and people publicly confess to God, that our own sins have been the Causes of our Calamities? Read Mr. Pool's Vox clamantis, and Mr. Stukeley's Book, and judge accordingly of others? And do you think that they thereby expose good people to the Magistrates hatred or revenge? Or dare you charge them with hypocrisy, as if they spake not as they thought? Alas man, what days of Humiliation do you use to keep, for the sins and miseries of the Land? Do you only confess your adversaries sins? How easily can some men Repent, if it were other mens only that they were to Repent of, (if the confessing of such might be called Repenting.) Adeo familiare est omnia sibi remittere, nihil aliis, inquit Patercul.
R. B. 1. And is there not sin among us,1 even among us also? And are the sins of such as we, no Causes of our publick calamities? And would you thus leave us all desperate in Impenitency? May not we Repent? and must we not Repent, if we will be forgiven? When we are freed from the Condition of the Law of Works, is Repentance become so intollerable and hard a Condition? If we Repent not, shall we not all perish, Luke 13. 3, 5. Do Angels rejoice at a sinners Repentance; and shall we take him for their enemy, that calls them to it? 2. Is not Impenitency a greater Reproach to us, in the eyes of those by whom we suffer, than our Repentance would be? And doth it not exasparate them to see men justifie unquestionable sin? 3. What if God Record even good mens sins, and tell a David what evil they should bring upon his house? and what a plague his numbring the people brought on his Kingdom; and so of others? Doth he hereby expose them to be odious? No, but by Repentance, would make them amiable. 4. Is not sin odious whereever it is found? And God is no respecter of persons? Must we not loath our selves for it? It is he that sinneth, that maketh himself ⟨p. 32⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 33⟩〈…〉 ⟨p. 34⟩odious; and he that calleth him to Repentance, would take away his odiousness (Though the sin of a penitent Manasseh may cause the Captivity.) And he that justifieth it, and fathereth it on Christ, and the Spirit, and Religion, would make Christ, and the Spirit, and Religion, and the Church odious, lest he should be known to be so himself. 5. And do not most good Ministers and people publickly confess to God, that our own sins have been the Causes of our Calamities? Read Mr. Pool's Vox clamantis, and Mr. Stukeley's Book, and judge accordingly of others? And do you think that they thereby expose good people to the Magistrates hatred or revenge? Or dare you charge them with hypocrisie, as if they spake not as they thought? Alas man, what dayes of Humiliation do you use to keep, for the sins and miseries of the Land? Do you only confess your adversaries sins? How easily can some men Repent, if it were other mens only that they were to Repent of, (if the confessing of such might be called Repenting.) Adeo familiare est omnia sibi remittere, nihil aliis, inquit Patercul.
- 13. Crime Taking a Call to Repentance for a heinous wrong.
