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2. Others there be who have had a very great visible change wrought upon them. It may be they have spent a great part of their life in vanity and debauchery; they wasted away their youthful days in folly, and spent many of their riper years in notorious wickedness; they lived in a woeful neglect of Duty, and would not hearken to the Counsels give• them whether in private or in public; they have fallen into gross and scandalous sins, such as Drunkenness Whoredom, Theft, Sabbath-Breaking, Scoffing at Godliness, &c. And they refused to be reformed, they would not bear to be reproved, but would rail, and revile at those that offered to check them in their Career's, But God at length met with them in their Career, and stopped them in it, ⟨p. 97⟩knocked them down, as he did Paul, brought them to his foot, made them to taste the bitterness of their sin, humbly and throughly to confess and bewail all their former follies, and utterly to renounce them with their whole heart, and to betake themselves to him in Christ for pardon and healing: and hereupon there is a very notable change apparent in them to the observation of all they converse with; they do now as much hate their sins as formerly they delighted in them, and they a•re as eagerly set for the ways of God and Holiness, as formerly they slighted and abominated them; and are as zealously engaged to promote the interest of Christ in the world, as they sometimes were to serve the designs of Satan and their own lusts. An eminent instance of such an one was Manasseh; see 2 Chron. 33. beg•n. compare, verse 15, 16. and though Paul were not a Debauch, yet he had been a virulent enemy of Christ, see what he saith of himself, 1 Tim. 1.19. and yet afterwards be laboured for Christ, more than all the Apostles, 1 Cor. 15.10. and indeed there is no one in the world that affords more matter for hope than such an one; there being so eminent a change brought about in him from one contrary to another; that it must needs be so much the more observable: and although it is not to be denied but that legal convictions