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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.
First; You have your Enjoyments. But, what Use are you to make of them? You are advised; Rom. 2.4. The Goodness of God Leads thee to Repentance. Oh! Let your Enjoyments cause you to think; What, Oh! how much, have I been and done, to Forfeit such Enjoyments! How Gloriously does the Sovereign Grace of Heaven, triumph over an Ill-deserving Sinner, in such Enjoyments! Think thus upon every one of them, as far as you can. Have Days of Thanksgiving for it. Man, Does GOD Smile upon thee? O Repent, and ⟨p. 26⟩Wonder, because thou dost not Perish! Every Morsel of Meat on thy Table, may be Eaten, with Wonder, that it is bestowed upon such an Ill-deserving Sinner. Eat thy Morsel, with the Bitter Herbs of Repentance: It will be the Sweeter for it.
First; You have your Enjoyments. But, what Use are you to make of them? You are advised; Rom. 2.4. The Goodness of God Leads thee to Repentance. Oh! Let your Enjoyments cause you to think; What, Oh! how much, have I been and done, to Forfeit such Enjoyments! How Gloriously does the Sovereign Grace of Heaven, triumph over an Ill-deserving Sinner, in such Enjoyments! Think thus upon every one of them, as far as you can. Have Days of Thanksgiving for it. Man, Does GOD Smile upon thee? O Repent, and ⟨p. 26⟩Wonder, because thou dost not Perish! Every Morsel of Meat on thy Table, may be Eaten, with Wonder, that it is bestow'd upon such an Ill-deserving Sinner. Eat thy Morsel, with the Bitter Herbs of Repentance: It will be the Sweeter for it.
And then; You have your Afflictions. But what should they drive you to? To Repentance. This is the Advice of Heaven; Job 34.31. Surely, It is meet to be said unto God, I have born Chastisement, I will not Offend any more. Let your Afflictions cause you to think, What, What are the Iniquities, that have procured me those Afflictions? Wherein have I rendered my self worthy of such Afflictions' Do thus upon every one of them. Child, Let not so much as a Fit of the Tooth-ache take thee, without some such Reflections. It is a dreadful Brand upon any man; In the Time of his Distress, he Sins yet more against the Lord; And, He Repents not of the Sin for which God is now smiting of him.