2. What is it thou now delightest thyself with in the midft of all thy Trou

bles? How feldom dost thou think of Christ?

3. If thou truly believeft, by resting 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 Christ, 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. Fam. ii. 18.

4. Exhortation. Believe in Christ.

1. Satan always domineering over,

z. Thy Sins always raging in,

3. GOD always frowning upon thee,
not only in Time, but to Eternity,
Pfal. vii. II.

2. How happy thou wilt be with Him.
1. Thy Sins pardon'd.

2. Satan fubdu'd.

3. Thy Corruptions mortify'd.
4. Thy Heart fanctify'd, 1 Cor. i. 2.
5. GOD pleas'd, Hebr. xi. 5.
6. Thy Soul fav'd, Rom. viii. 1.

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

2.

3.

elfe.

the Sufficiency of Chrift.
Chrift's End in coming into the

World.

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A c T. xvii. 30.

And the times of this Ignorance God wink'd at, but now commandeth all Men every where to repent.

I. W Hat

"Hat was the time of this Ignorance? Heathenish Idolatry.

II. How did GOD wink at this time,

adv. 1. Not as if He wink'd at their Sins or pardon'd them, Rom. ii. 12.

2. But GOD did not fo refpect 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.

OBSERVATION.

By the Coming of Chrift, all Mankind is in a pe 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.

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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. 1.

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, Act. 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.

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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 special Notice GOD takes, whether you repent or no, Fer. viii. 6.

5. No Sin but is damnable without Repentance, no Sin but is pardonable with it.

Аст.

A c T. xvii. 31.

Because He hath appointed a Day in the which He will judge the World in Righteousness, by that Man whom He bath ordain'd, whereof He hath given Affurance unto all Men, in that He hath rais'd Him from the Dead.

OD will judge the World.

1. GOD

1. What World?

1. Not the Material.

2. Nor the Spiritual, which is judg'd al ready, S. Jude 6. 2 S. Pet. ii. 4.

3. But the mixt World, Mankind, S. Joh. iii.
16. 1 Tim. ii. 4. All Men, S. Matth.
XXV. 32. 2 Cor. v. 10.

2. What is meant by judging the World?
1. All Men shall appear perfonally before
Him, 2 Cor. v. 10.

2. Every Man's Life upon Earth fhall be
review'd and examin'd, what he hath,
and what he hath not done.

3. It will then be confider'd how each Man's Life hath agreed with, or been contrary to, the reveal'd Will of GOD, S. Jam. ii. 12. Rom. ii. 14. for which end the Books fhall be o

pen'd, Rev. xx. 12.

1. The Book of GOD's Word.

2.

of His Omniscience, Mal. iii. 16.

3. of Mens Confciences, Jer. xvii. 1.

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4. Sen