Matth. xi 28. Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

John vi. 35. And Jesus said unto them, I am the bread of life; he that cometh unto me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst.

Ver. 37. All that the Father giveth me, shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wife caft out.

1 Pet. ii. 4, 5. To whom coming as unto a living ftone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of GOD, and precious; ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual facrifices, acceptable to GOD by Jesus Chrift. See Justification, Part I. Chap. III. Sect. II.

Matt. x. 32. Whosoever shall Confeffing Christ. confess me before men, him will I confefs also before my Father

which is in heaven.

Rom. x. 9. If thou shalt confefs with thy mouth the LORD JESUS, and shalt believe in thine heart, that GOD hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be faved.

Ver. 10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confeffion is made unto salvation.

1 John iv. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of GOD, GOD dwelleth in him, and he in him.

II. TO REPENTANCE.

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2 Chron. vii. 14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their fin. 2 Chron. xxx. 9. The LORD your GOD is gra

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cious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

Ps. xxxvii. 27. Depart from evil, and do good, and dwell for evermore.

Prov. i. 23. Turn ye at my reproof: Behold, L. will pour out my Spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.

Fer. iv. 14. O Jerufalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee?

If. lv. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our GOD, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jer. xviii. 8. If that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the... evil that I thought to do unto them.

Jer. xxvi. 3. If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them, because. of the evil of their doings.

Ver. 13. Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the LORD your GOD, and the LORD will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Jer. xxxvi. 3. That they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity, and their fin.

Ezek. xviii. 21. If the wicked will turn from alk his fins 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.

Ver. 22. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be once mentioned unto him: In his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live. Ver. 23. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, faith the LORD GOD, and not that he should return from his ways and live?

Ver. 30. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your tranfgreffions; so iniquity shall not prove your ruin.

Ver. 31. Caft away from you all your tranfgreffions, whereby ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit; For why will ye die, O house of Ifrael ?

Ver. 32. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, faith the LORD GOD: Wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Ezek. xxxiii. 14. When I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt furely die: If he turn from his fin, and do that which is lawful and right:

Ver. 15. If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall furely live,

he shall not die.

Ver. 16. None of his fins that he hath committed, shall be mentioned unto him, he hath done that which is lawful and right.

Ver. 19. If the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Joel ii. 12. Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and with mourning.

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Ver. 13. And rend your heart, and not your garments, and turn unto the LORD your GOD; for he it gracious and merciful, flow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil.

Ver. 14. Who knoweth, if he will return and repent, and leave a bleffing behind him, even a meatoffering and a drink offering, unto the LORD your GOD.

Zech. i. 3. Turn ye unto me, faith the LORD of hosts, and I will turn unto you, faith the LORD of hosts, Mal. iii. 7.

Job. xxii. 23. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt

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shalt be built up; thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Eph. v. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Ads ii. 38. Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Chrift for the remiffion of fins, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost.

Ats iii. 19. Repent ye therefore, and be convert-ed, that your fins may be blotted out, when the times. of refreshing shall come from the prefence of the LORD.

To them that mourn for the Wickedness of the Land.

Ezek. ix. 4. Go through the midst of the city, and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that figh, and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst of it.

Ver. 6. Slay utterly old and young-but come not near any man upon whom is the mark.

Deut. iv. 30. When thou art Repenting in Afflic- in tribulation, and all these things

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are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to

the LORD thy GOD, and shalt be obedient to his voice;

Ver. 31. (For the LORD thy GOD is a merciful GOD) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee,.. nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he fware unto them.

Deut. xxx. 2. If thou shalt return unto the LORD thy GOD; and shalt obey his voice, according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children with all thine heart, and with all thy foul;

Ver. 3. Then the LORD thy GOD will turn thy captivity, and have compaffion upon thee, and will return and gather thee, from all the nations whither the LORD thy GOD hath scattered thee.

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Ver. 8. And thou shalt return, and obey the voice of the LORD, and do all his commandments, which I command thee this day.

Job xxxiii. 27. He looketh upon men, and if any fay, I have finned and perverted that which was _ right, and it profited me not;

Ver. 28. He will deliver his foul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Hof. vi. 1. Come, and let us return unto the LORD; for he hath torn, and he will heal us: He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Confeffion of Sin.

Ff. xxxii. 5. I faid, I will confefs my transgressions unto the LORD; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my fins.

Prov. xxviii. 13. Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his fins, shall have mercy.

1 John i. 9. If we confess our fins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our fins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Lev. xxvi. 40. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass, which they trespassed agato me, and that also they have walked contrary to me,

Ver. 41. And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies: If then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity;

Ver. 42. Then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and alfo my covenant with Ifaac, and alfo my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I. will remember the land.

Jer. iii. 12. Return, thou backsliding Ifrael, faith the LORD, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, faith the LORD, and. I will not keep anger forever..