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Ye shall remember your Ways and all your Doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye fhall loathe yourselves in your own Sight, for all your Evils that ye have committed.

"Be ashamed and confounded for your own Ways, faith the Lord God."

w/ We lie down in our Shame, and our Confufion covereth us: For we have finned against the Lord our God, we and our Fathers, from our Youth even unto this Day, and have not obeyed the Voice of the Lord our God. To us, O Lord, belongeth Confufion of Face, because we have finned against thee..

* We are ashamed, and blush to lift up our Faces to thee, our God: For our Iniquities are increafed over our Head, and our Trefpafs is grown up unto the Heavens.

y After I was turned I repented; after I was inftructed I fmote upon my Thigh. I was afhamed, even confounded, because I did bear the Reproach of my Youth.

z I will arife and go to my Father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned against Hea ven and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy Son.

The Unjust knoweth no Shame.

RESOLUTION.

Surely it is meet to be faid unto God, if I have done Iniquity, I will do no more.

t Ezek. 20. 43: & u Ezek. 36. 32. * Ezra 9. 6. y Jer. 31. 19, b Job 34, 31, 32.

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a Zeph. 3. 5.

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I am purpofed that my Mouth fhall not tranfgrefs.

I will fet no wicked Thing before mine Eyes. A froward Heart fhall depart from me: I will not know a wicked Perfon.

I will wath mine Hands in Innocency; fo will I compafs thine Altar, O Lord.

AMENDMENT.

Thus faith the Lord; Return ye now every one from his evil Way, and make your Ways and your Doings good. For if ye thoroughly amend your Ways and your Doings, I will give you an Heart to know me, and I will fet mine Eyes upon you for good.

& Caft away from you all your Tranfgreffions, and make you a new Heart and a new Spirit. For why will ye die? I have no Pleasure in the Death of him that dieth, faith the Lord God; wherefore turn yourfelves, and live ye. Frame your Doings to turn unto your God. Ceafe to do Evil; learn

to do Well.

Put off, concerning the former Conversation, the old Man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful Lufts; and be renewed in the Spirit of your Mind; and put on the new Man, which after God is created in Righteoufnefs and true Holiness.

i As ye have yielded your Members Servants to Uncleannefs, and to Iniquity unto Iniquity; even fo now yield your Members Servants to Righteoufnefs unto Holiness. For what Fruit had ye

c Pfal. 17. 3. f Jer. 18. 11.

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d Pfal. 101. 3, 4.
• Pfal. 26. 6.
Ezek. 18.31,
b Eph. 4. 22, 23, 24.

Jer. 7. 5. Jer. 24. 72 6.

Hofea 5. 4. Rom. 6. 39, 25.

Ifa. 1. 16, 17.

in thofe Things whereof ye are now ashamed For the End of thofe Things is Death.

- Cleanfe your Hands, ye Sinners; and purify your Hearts, ye Double-minded. Peradventure God will give you Repentance, that ye may re+ cover yourfelves out of the Snare of the Devil.

Thou that haft left thy firft Love, remember from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first Works.

n Break off thy Sins by Righteoufnefs; and thine Iniquities, by thewing Mercy to the Poor.

"If If Iniquity be in thine Hand, put it far away, and let not Wickednefs dwell in thy Tabernacles. For then halt thou lift up thy Face without Spot; yea, thou shalt be stedfaft, and fhalt hot fear, becaufe thou fhalt forget thy Misery, and remember it as Waters that pass away..

• Let us ceafe from Sin, that we may no longer live the rest of our Time to the Lufts of Men, but to the Will of God. For the Time paft of our Life may fuffice us to have wrought the Will of the Gentiles, when we ferved divers Lufts and Pleasures.

P Knowing therefore the Time, that now it is high Time to awake out of Sleep; let us caft off the Works of Darknefs, and let us put on the Armour of Light.

1 Turn ye now from your evil Ways, and from your e evil Doings; before Sin hath gotten Domiand ye find no Place of Repentance. Can the Ethiopian change his Skin, or the Leo

nion over

Rom. 6. 21.

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* James 4. 8. 2 Tim. 2. 25, 26. 4, 5. m. Dan. 4. 27. n Job 11. 14, 15, 16. 2, 3. Titus 3. 3. P Rom. 13. 11, 12. Rom. 6. 14. Heb. 12. 17. Jer. 13. 23.

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Surely it is meet to be faid unto God; If I have done Iniquity, I will do no more. For he looketh upon Men: and if any fay, I have finned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his Soul from going into the Pit, and his Life fhall fee the Light. Because he confidereth and turneth away from all his Tranfgreffions that he hath committed, he shall furely live, he shall not die.

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• If the Wicked will turn from all his Sins that he hath committed, and keep all my Statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he fhall furely live, he shall not die, faith the Lord: All his Tranfgreffions that he hath committed, they fhall not be mentioned unto him: in his Righteousness that he hath done he thall live.

If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up thon fhalt put away Iniquity far from thy Tabernacles. Will he plead againit thee with his great Power? No; but he will put Strength in thee.

" He will create in thee a clean' Heart, and renew a right Spirit within thee. He will reftore unto thee the Joy of his Salvation, and uphold thee with his free Spirits

After all that is come upon us for our evil Deeds, fecing that thou, our Goei, haft punished us lefs than our Iniquities deferve, fhould we

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again break thy Commandments? And whereas we have offended against the Lord already, fhould we add more to our Sins and to our Trespasses ?

* Hear ye the Word of the Lord, and fear, and do no more prefumptuously, Depart from Evil, and do Good, and dwell for evermore.

REPENTANCE towards MEN.

y If thou bring thy Gift to the Altar, and there remembereft that thy Brother hath ought against thee; leave there thy Gift before the Altar, and go thy Way; first be, reconciled to thy Brother, and then come and offer thy Gift,

2 Whoever has wronged his Brother in Reftiturion. any Thing, according to his Substance fhall the Reftitution be, and he thall not rejuice therein,

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If I have taken any Thing from any Man by falfe Accufation, I reftore him four-fold.

If the Wicked reftore the Pledge, give again that he hath robbed; walk in the Statutes of Life, without committing Iniquity; he shall furely live, he fhall not die.

* Deut. 17. 13. Pfal. 37. 27. a Luke 19. 8.

40. 18.

y Mat. 5. 23, 24, Ezek. 33. 15.

z Job

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