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let not the sins that ye discovered and saw in your self-examination between God and you, before the came ⟨p. 179⟩to the Communion-Table, be forgotten; but remember them, to repent of them and to renounce them; and when one knot (to say so) of your engagement looseth, cast another faster, or if a knot were weak, strengthen it, or cast a new one; for as acts of Faith must be renewed, So must acts of engaging to God. Fifthly, Be much in the exercise of Repentance for your bygone folly, My sin (saith David Psal. 51.) Is ever before me; think not Repentance to be the work of a day or two; look back and reflect on your old sins of tippling, Swearing, enmity at Godliness, &c. For if ye wear out of the exercise of Repentance, ye will wear in, piece and piece on your old sins, against which Repentance is a notable bar; being much in the exercise of Repentance keeps the heart sober and watchful, and loth to hazard on sin, and withal makes sin bitter: But the Antinomian way takes off all restraints, and looseth the reins to sin; It's much now to see a penitent; I wish There may be much Repentance in secret; but for any thing that is seen, it's very rare. Sixthly, In an especial manner, be much in Improving the strength of Jesus Christ, to prevent your turning again to folly; do not undertake nor engage in your own strength; but believingly lay all the weight and stress on your Surety, Put his name in the band, which ye give to God, for the debt of duty: Abide in me, and I in you, So ye shall bring forth much fruit; for without me, ye can do nothing; saith our Lord to his Disciples, John 15. But how many fail and come short here? While ⟨p. 180⟩they go about duties, and either quite misken or make but very little use of Christ; many know very little or nothing at all, what it is to make use of Christ, in order to the making of their peace with God; but O! how very few know what it is to make use of his strength to enable them for duty, & to go through the wilderness leaning on their beloved. Seventhly, Defer not to make your Resolutions and engagements practicable; There are many, alas! who think Shame, it should be said, that a Sermon had so much weight with them, as to make them alter and change their course at once; It may be they will consent to be religious, but they must be allowed to come to it by degrees, & to creep toward it piece-meal;