Secondly, That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, is, a total turning, as well as an universal turning; a turning from all sin, without any reservation or exception. I hate and abhor every false way, but thy Law do1 I love. So in Ezek. 18. 30. Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God, Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruin. So in Ezek. 33. 11. As Noah's flood drowned his nearest, and his dearest friends; so the flood of penitent tears drowns mens nearest and their dearest lusts. Be they Isaacs or Benjamins, be they right eyes, or right hands, Repentance that accompanies Salvation, puts all to the Sword; it spares neither Father nor Mother, neither Agag nor Achan; it casts off all the rags of old Adam; it leaves not a Horn, nor a Hoof behind; it throws down every stone of the old building; it scrapes off all Leviathans scales: it washeth away all leprous spots. Ezek. ⟨p. 408⟩14. 6. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, Repent, and turn your selves from your Idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. Sin is a turning the back upon God, and the face towards Hell; but Repentance is a turning the back upon sin, and a setting the face towards God. He that looks upon Jerusalem, and upon2 Babylon, with a leering eye at the same time; He that looks upon God, and at the same time looks upon any sin with a leering eye, hath not yet reached unto this Repentance that accompanies Salvation; his Repentance and Profession cannot secure him from double damnation: He that serves God in somethings, and his lusts in other things, says to God as David 3said to Mephibosheth concerning his Lands, Thou and Ziba divide the Lands, So thou and Satan divide my soul, my heart between you: Ah doth not such a soul deserve a double Hell? Christ takes every sin at a penitent mans hands, as Caesar did his wounds from him, of whom he merited better usage, with [Greek or Hebrew], And thou my son? What thou wound me? what ⟨p. 409⟩thou stab me? that shouldst venture thy own blood to save mine. There are no wounds that are so grievous and terrible to Christ, as those that he receives in the house of his friends. And this sets the penitent mans heart and hand against every thing that makes against Christ.
Secondly, That Repentance that accompanies Salvation, is, a total turning, as well as an universal turning; a turning from all sin, without any reservation or exception. I hate and abhor every false way, but thy Law do1 I love. So in Ezek. 18. 30. Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord God, Repent and turn your selves from all your transgressions, so iniquity shall not be your ruine. So in Ezek. 33. 11. As Noahs flood drowned his neerest, and his dearest friends; so the flood of penitent tears drowns mens neerest and their dearest lusts. Be they Isaacs or Benjamins, be they right eyes, or right hands, Repentance that accompanies Salvation, puts all to the Sword; it spares neither Father nor Mother, neither Agag nor Achan; it casts off all the rags of old Adam; it leaves not a Horn, nor a Hoof behinde; it throws down every stone of the old building; it scrapes off all Leviathans skales: it washeth away all leprous spots. Ezek. ⟨p. 408⟩14. 6. Therefore say unto the house of Israel, thus saith the Lord God, Repent, and turn your selves from your Idols, and turn away your faces from all your abominations. Sin is a turning the back upon God, and the face towards Hell; but Repentance is a turning the back upon sin, and a setting the face towards God. He that looks upon Jerusalem, and upon2 Babylon, with a learing eye at the same time; He that looks upon God, and at the same time looks upon any sin with a learing eye, hath not yet reached unto this Repentance that accompanies Salvation; his Repentance and Profession cannot secure him from double damnation: He that serves God in somethings, and his lusts in other things, sayes to God as David 3said to Mephibosheth concerning his Lands, Thou and Ziba divide the Lands, So thou and Satan divide my soul, my heart between you: Ah doth not such a soul deserve a double Hell? Christ takes every sin at a penitent mans hands, as Caesar did his wounds from him, of whom he merited better usage, with 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, And thou my son? What thou wound me? what ⟨p. 409⟩
- 1Psal. 119. True hatred is ([Greek or Hebrew]) to the whole kind. Arist. And God hath engaged himself to cleanse the hearts of his people from all, and to set their soul• against all. Jere. 33. 8 Ezek. 36. 25, 29, 33. 1 John 1. 9. Repentance for sin; is nothing worth, without repentance from sin.Psal. 119. True hatred is (〈non-Latin alphabet〉) to the whole kinde. Arist. And God hath engaged himself to cleanse the hearts of his people from all, and to set their soul• against all. Jere. 33. 8 Ezek. 36. 25, 29, 33. 1 Iohn 1. 9. Repentance for sin; is nothing worth, without repentance from sin.
- 2Thus did Herod and Judas to their eternal ruin. Jam. 2. 10.Thus did Herod and Judas to their eternal ruine. Jam. 2. 10.
- 31 Sam. 19. One stab ar the heart kills, one hole in the ship sinks her, one act of treason makes a Traitor: So one sin not forsaken, not turned from, will undo a soul for ever. Sin ever ends tragically, and this puts the penitent in battle array against every sin.1 Sam. 19. One stab ar the heart kills, one hole in the ship sinks her, one act of treason makes a Traytor: So one sin not forsaken, not turned from, will undo a soul for ever. Sin ever ends tragically, and this puts the penitent in battel array against every sin.
