fons, of which I believe this may not be the leaft,That 'tis one of the most difficult things to write on an eafie Subject, as 'tis the bardeft to paint Light. When I drew the Model of this, and had Some of the Materials lying by me and ready framed, I thought the perfecting and finishing it would not have cost me half the charge and pains and expence that I found it has, and moft Writers I believe like Builders find this, and even afterwards when they have done, they fee many things they could mend and alter, though they care not for being at the cost of pulling down again and building up anew: It was only the Strength and Usefulness and Conveniency I had regard to, and it may have thofe, tho' like a Houfe built by parts and not altogether, it want all that regular Order and Beauty that should set it off. It is to be looked on only as a Popular Difcourfe to teach an useful Truth in Religion, and raise the Affections and Imaginations up to it, without that care and exactness that is to be obferved in clofer Writings: It will fully answer its end if it can but convey a clear and lively an Understanding and warm fenfe of Religion into Mens Minds, and free their Thoughts from from fuch Mistakes, and their Lives from fuch Sins as are too prevailing in the World, and which like the Sea and its Rivers proceed from and maintain and run into one another; For Men's Lufts and Vices make them willing to take up with falfe and loofe Principles in Religion, and thofe Principles feed and promote their Vice and Looseness. The Sincerity and Zeal of ferving So good an end,as I have had my Eye all along upon, or at least of endeavouring heartily to do it, bath fufficiently armed me against all manner of Cenfures whatsoever,and hath given me more fatisfaction than if I had either had the ability, or could have vainly promised my felf the Applaufe of writing the Wittieft or Learnedeft Book in the World. This however mean and imperfect it is, as I here put into your Hands, So I presume to Dedicate to the Great God and my Blessed Redeemer, the best Patrons who will certainly reward those that ferve them, heartily praying that it may be Serviceable to their Honour and Glory, to the promoting Vertue and Religion, the bringing Men off from Sin and Wickedness, the Converfion and Salvation of Souls, and the Turning of Sinners from the Errors of their ways unto Righteousness, that fo both they and I may have the Rewards promised to all fuch. THE THE HE Introduction, wherein the Mi- Sect. 2. Kinds and Degrees of Repent- ance, p. II Sect. 2. Motives to Repentance from Rea- fon and the Nature of the thing, P. 43 Sect. 3. Motives to Repentance from the Gospel, or peculiar to Christianity, p. 56 Sect. 5. Other Gospel Motives to Repen- Sect. 6. Exhortation to Repentance in or- der to fit and prepare us to dye, p. 104 Sect. 7. Of the Fear of Death, and how Sect. 3. Of Concupifcence, the Luftings of the Flesh, or struggle between that and СНАР. Sect. 1. The Cafe of the Thief upon the Sect. 2. The Pleas and Pretences on be- half of a Death-Bed Repentance Answer- Sect. 3. The Invalidity of a Death-Bed Repentance shown from the Parable of the wife and foolish Virgins, P. 257 Sect. 4. More Pofitive Proofs against the |