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Dust and ashes. An essay upon repentance to the last. Advising a watchful Christian,…
Dust and ashes. An essay upon repentance to the last. Advising a watchful Christian, upon that case; how to keep alive the daily exercise of repentance, to the end of his life? : [Six lines of quotations in Latin and English]
printed by B. Green for Timothy Green, 1710
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
What is that Repentance, which we are to keep in continual Exercise?
I will briefly state the Operations of that Repentance.
First; In Repentance, tis to be supposed, we are Apprehensive, That we have Sinned; That we have been or done, that which is to be Repented of. An Apprehension of our Sinfulness is necessary. A Repenting Sinner, is a Convinced Sinner. The Language of Repentance, is that; 2 Sam. 24.10. I have Sinned greatly in that I have done, I have done very Foolishly. Tis implied, That we are acquainted with the Law of our GOD; That we have an Acquaintance with what the Exceeding Broad Law Enjoins upon us. We must see the Law of GOD Violated, in what we have been, or done; A Law to be for ever Magnified and made Honourable. The First Thing said by a Repenting Sinner, ⟨p. 8⟩is that, Luk. 15.17. I have Sinned against Heaven. But if we would not sinfully Intermit our due Repentance, we must see our selves thus Chargeable with Sin, in all that we do; Sinful in all Undertakings; in all Conditions; in all Relations; Defiled with Sin, in all that we meddle withal. In this our Sight of our Sin, tis not only our Actual Sin, that is to be set before our Eyes. Our Sight must penetrate as far as our Original Sin. This must be seen, as the Original of all our Sin. We must Look in, Look down, upon that Fountain of Wickedness, which we have in an Heart, that is Deceitful above all things, and desperately Wicked. 'O wretched One, that I am! What a Leper am I! What a Viper am I! What a Seed of all Sin have I Lodging in me!
First; In Repentance, tis to be supposed, we are Apprehensive, That we have Sinned; That we have been or done, that which is to be Repented of. An Apprehension of our Sinfulness is necessary. A Repenting Sinner, is a Convinced Sinner. The Language of Repentance, is that;