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 But then conider how he invites all Sinners to come unto him, and,  for he aures us,   and hath promied,

So that if now you will incerely turn to him, tho’ late, even at the  he will receive you.

But urely I need not tell you, that the Terms of his Mercy is Faith and Repentance.

And do not mitake the Nature of Repentance to be only a bare Sorrow for your Sins, ariing from the Conideration of the Evil and Punihment they have now brought upon you; but your Sorrow mut arie from the Conideration of your having offended a gracious and merciful God.

But I hall not pretend to give you any particular Directions as to the Nature of Repentance: I conider that I peak to a Peron, whoe Offences have proceeded not o much from his not knowing, as his lighting and neglecting his Duty: Neither is it proper for me to give Advice out of the Way of my own Profeion.

You may have that better delivered to you by thoe who have made Divinity their particular Study; and who, by their Knowledge, as well as their Office, as being the  are bet qualified to give you Intructions therein.

I only heartily wih, that what, in Compaion to your Soul, I have now aid to you upon this ad and olemn Occaion, by exhorting you in general to Faith and Repentance, may have that due Effect upon you, that thereby you may become a true Penitent.

And therefore having now dicharged my Duty to you as a Chritian, by giving you the bet el