out my Words to reason with him? Whom, though I were righteous, yet would I not answer's but I would make Supplication to my Judge, : 'Wherefore let us humble ourselves greatly before God: and give Glory to the Lord, and make Confession unto him. Witb Sorror

m Turn ye to me, faith the Lord, and Shame. with all your Heari, and with Fasting,

and with Weeping, and with Mourning; and rent your Heart, and not your Garments, and turn unto the Lord

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God. Be afflicted, ye Sinners, and mourn and weep: Let your Laughter be turned to Mourning, and your Joy to Heaviness.

• Wo unto us that we have finned: For this our Heart is faint.

p When I remember my Sins, I am afraid ; Trembling taketh hold of my Flelh ; so that I am a Burden to myself.

9 When ye forrowed after a godly Sort, What Carefulness it wrought in you! yea, what clearing of yourselves; yea, what Indignation ; yea, what Fear; yea, what vehement Desire; yea, what Zeal ; yea, what Revenge !

Godly Sorrow worketh Repentance to Salva. tion, not to be repented of : But the Sorrow of the World worketh Death.

• The Sacrifices of God are a broken Spirit: A broken and a contrite Heart, O God, thou wilt not defpife.

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Chron. 33. 12. Joshua 7. 19. m Joel 2: 12, 13. James 4. 9, 8, 9.

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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.

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

w, We lie down in our Shame, and our Confusion covereth ús: For we have finned againit the Lord our God, we and our Fathers, from our Youth even unto this Day, and have not oheved

the Voice of the Lord our God. Tous, O Lord, . belongeth Confusion 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 increased over our Head, and our Trespass is grown up unto the Heavens,

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

2 I will arise and go to my Father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have linned against Heaven and before thee, and am 'no more worthy to be called thy Son. a The Unjust knoweth no Shame.

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

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

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

AMENDMENT. « Thus faith the Lord; Return ye now every one froin his evil Way, and make your Ways and your Doings good. For if ye thoroughly amcod your Ways and your Doings, I will give you an Heart to know me, and I will set 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, saith the Lord God; wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye. Frame your Doings to turn unto your Gode Cease 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 Righteousness and true Holiness.

· As ye have yielded your Members Servants to Uncleannefs, and to Iniquity unto Iniquity; even so now yield your Members Servants to Righteousness unto Holiness. For what Fruit liad ye

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in shole Things whereof ye are now afhamed For the End of those Things is Death.

k Cleanse your Hands, ye Sinners; and purify your Hearts, ye Double-minded. Peradventure God will give you Repentance, that ye may recover yourselves out of the Snare of the Devil.

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

m Broak off thy Sins by Righteoufnefs; and thine luiquities, by thewing Mercy to the Poor.

If Iniquity be in thine Hand, put it far away, and let not Wickednefs dwell in thy Taberna. cles. For then thalt thou lift up thy Face with, out Spot; yea, thou shalt be itedfast, and shalt hot fear, becaufe thou shalt forget thy Misery, and remember it as Waters that pass away.

· Lat us cease 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 part of our Life may fuffice us to have wrought the Will of the Gentiles, when we served divers Luftsand Pleasures.

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

9 Turn ye now from your evil Ways, and from your evil Doings; before Sin hath gotten Dominion over you, and ye find no Place of Repentance. Can the Ethiopian change his Skin, or the LeoRom. 6. 21. * James 4.8. 2 Tim. 2. 25, 26. 4, 5. m Da. 4. 27. n Job 11. 14, 15, 16.

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

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

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