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 heaven with the guilt of these upon my soul. Oh, good Lord, do what thou wilt with me, only take my soul and save me, and take away my lusts and corruption from me."

Thus have you briefly the reasons of the print, that this is the way of God's working; that sorrow and contrition of heart for sin, is the way to conversion from sin, and a turning to God. I now proceed to the application.

The first shall be for instruction.

The second for reproof and complaint.

The third for exhortation.

Use 1. It is so that this sorrow, under the burden and weight of sin, will pierce a man's soul to the quick, and grinds him as it were to powder; being run through by the arrows of the Almighty, and that it is of so great necessity to be humbled, and greatly sorrowful for sin. Then let this teach us now to carry ourselves one towards another, and to such as God hath dealt thus with, having their souls pierced. O do you pity them. They lie down in