Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy delivered…

Doct: 3 True repentance is always attended with a through reformation: If ye throughly amend your ways, &c ver: 5. the Lord there declares what a manner of repentance it is that he looks for; not a verbal, in a few empty Confessions, nor a formal, in a few dejected and cast down looks: like theirs in Isai: 58: beginning but here, and in the sequel he declares if they will have peace what it is he expects; the sum of which is, let all which hath been amiss be mended, turn over a new leaf, reform your hearts and ways, your souls and lives, and that I will accept of.

Doct: 3 True repentance is alwayes attended with a through reformation: If ye throughly amend your wayes, &c ver: 5. the Lord there declares what a manner of repentance it is that he looks for; not a verbal, in a few empty Confessions, nor a formal, in a few dejected and cast down looks: like theirs in Isai: 58: beginning but here, and in the sequel he declares if they will have peace what it is he expects; the sum of which is, let all which hath been amiss be mended, turn over a new leaf, reform your hearts and wayes, your souls and lives, and that I will accept of.

Reas. 1 Because such is the vile and loathsome nature of sin, that can't be indeed seen in its own colours, but it must needs be odious and abominable in our eyes: It hath so much of contrariety in it, to the holiness of God, and so much vileness, and filth, and abomination that none can see it but must needs hate it; when sin i• truly seen, it then appears to be sinful, Rom: 7: 14: that is the very worst name that can be put upon it, viz: its own: men see sin many times in its effects, and that frights them, but it cannot make them hate their sin, but they think it good enough if it had not such consequences, but when the face of it is uncovered and the souls eyes opened, now he stands off, his affections are slain.