2. To what? 1. Juftification, Rom. v. 1. 1. In our Freedom from all Evil. 2. our Enjoyment of all Good. As appears, ร 1. From the Promises, S. Joh. i. 12. Alt. xiii. 39. S. Joh. iii. 15. the End of Chrift's coming, S. Joh. iii. 16. the Nature of Faith, Hebr. xi. I. 1. Instruction. Unbelievers will be damn'd. 2. Conviction. 1. You do not know Him; for then you could not choose, but 1. Admire Him, 1 Tim. iii. 16. 4. Make it your Business to interest your- 2. If you do know, you do not assent to Him; for, did you believe that He died for Sin, 1. Would you live in it? 2. Would you not repent of it? 3. You do not rely upon Chrift; for, 1. What was it thou took'ft the mok Comfort from, when last upon thy Sick-Bed? 2. What 2. What is it thou now delighteft thyself with in the midst of all thy Trou bles? How feldom dost thou think of Christ? 3. If thou truly believeft, by refting upon Chrift, how com't thou to live in fo many Sins, without mourning for them, and turning from them? Is not every one that is in Chrift, a new Creature? 2 Cor. V. 17. 3. Examine thy Faith in Christ. 1. By thy Knowledge of Him. thy Love to Him. 2. 3. 4. 5. thy Longing after Him. thy performing Duties according to His Command. thy Acting for Him, S. Jam, ii, 18, 4. Exhortation. Believe in Chrift. Confider, 1. How miferable thou wilt be without Him. 1. Satan always domineering over, 2. Thy Sins always raging in, 3. GOD always frowning upon thee, 2. How happy thou wilt be with Him. 2. Satan fubdu'd. 3. Thy Corruptions mortify'd. MEANS. MEANS. By, 1. Prayer, S. Jam. i. 5. 2. Reading. 3. Hearing, Rom. X. 17. 4. Meditation. 1. Upon the Infufficiency of all Things elfe. 2. 3. the Sufficiency of Chrift. Chrift's End in coming into the World. ACT. A c T. xvii. 30. And the times of this Ignorance God wink'd at, but now commandeth all Men every where to repent. 1. W Hat was the time of this Ignorance ? II. How did GOD wink at this time, adóv. 1. Not as if He wink'd at their Sins or pardon'd them, Rom. ii. 12. 2. But GOD did not fo refpe&t thofe times, as to fend His Son then, or He pass'd them over, as the Syriack tranflates it. He permitted them to be times of Ignorance. III. Why is it faid, that He now commandeth all Men every where to repent, did He not do it before? Yes, but 1. Not fo clearly. 2. Not fo univerfally... in OBSERVATION. By the Coming of Chrift, all Mankind is in a pes culiar Manner commanded and oblig'd to repent. 1. We are enjoin'd by the Gospel to repent, S. Mark i. 15. S. Luk. xiii. 3. 2. What is Evangelical Repentance; it confifts in, 1. Conviction. 2. Contrition. 3. Confeffion. C c 4. Con 4. Converfion from Sin, A&t. iii. 19, 26. Confisting in, 1. Hating Sin, Pfal. cxix. 128. 2. Refolving against it, Pfal. xvii. 3. and xxxix. I. 3. Forfaking it, Ezek. xviii. 30. 4. Performing the contrary Duties, Ifa. i. 16, 17. Act. xxvi. 20. 3. What are those particular Obligations which we have upon us now to repent. 1. GOD hath now fhewn His greatest Severity against Sin. 2. Upon our Repentance, we are in a Capacity of Salvation, A&t. ii. 37. 3. The Gospel hath more clearly discover'd to us eternal Happiness and Mifery: Happiness if we do; but Mifery if we do not repent, 2 Tim. i. 10. USE. Repent. Consider, 1. What a glorious GOD you have offended, Job xlii. 5,6. 2. What Obligations lie upon you to repent, Ifa. v. 4. Rom. ii. 4. 3. What dreadful Punishments you have deferv'd. 4. What fpecial Notice GOD takes, whether you repent or no, Jer. viii. 6. 5. No Sin but is damnable without Repentance, no Sin but is pardonable with it. А ст. |