There is a change wrought in the life. 1Turning from sin is so visible, that others may discern it; therefore it is called a change from darkness to light, Ephes. 5. 8. Paul after he had seen the heavenly vision, was so turned, that all men wondered at the change▪ Act. 9. 21. Repentance turned the Jailer into a Nurse and Physician, Act. 16. 33. He took the Apostles and washed their wounds, and set meat before them. A ship that is going Eastward, there comes a wind and turns it Westward: ⟨p. 65⟩So that a man before was sailing Hell-ward, the contrary wind of the Spirit blows, and turns his course, and causeth him to sail Heaven-ward. Chrysostom speaking of the Ninevites Repentance, saith, that had a stranger who had seen Ninevehs excess, gone after they repented into the City, it was so metamorphosed and reformed, that he would scarce have believed it was the same City. Such a visible change doth Repentance make in a person, as if another so•l did lodge in the same body*. Now, that the turning from sin be rightly qualified, these few things are requisite.
There is a change wrought in the life. 1Turning from sin is so visible, that others may discern it; therefore it is called a change from darkness to light, Ephes. 5. 8. Paul after he had seen the heavenly vision, was so turned, that all men wondred at the change▪ Act. 9. 21. Repentance turned the Jaylor into a Nurse and Physician, Act. 16. 33. He took the Apostles and washed their wounds, and set meat before them. A ship that is going Eastward, there comes a wind and turns it Westward: ⟨p. 65⟩So that a man before was sailing Hell-ward, the contrary wind of the Spirit blows, and turns his course, and causeth him to sail Heaven-ward. Chrysostom speaking of the Ninivites Repentance, saith, that had a stranger who had seen Ninevehs excess, gone after they repented into the City, it was so metamorphosed and reformed, that he would scarce have believed it was the same City. Such a visible change doth Repentance make in a person, as if another so•l did lodge in the same body*. Now, that the turning from sin be rightly qualified, these few things are requisite.
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- *Ego non sum ego.
