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 Not to hear the counsel of carnal friends. Go thou and lie at God's footstool and convey thy sins before him, for it is he that confesseth and forsaketh all still find merry and where there is this true and hearty confession there must needs be a godly sorrow for sin.

To provoke you to it, let me leave you two or three motives. 1. Consider it is not a vain thing that you are exhorted to, but that upon which the fate of your souls depends, for without a thorough sense and pricking at the heart for lo, there is no salvation from sin He that would be Christ's disciple, must leave all hath, father, mother, wife, children, all that's near and dear to him, and take up the Host and follow Christ. He that would be true convert must both confess and grieve in the prophet Ezekiel saith, They shall remember their ways that were not good, and shall be ashamed then be persuaded, poor careless and unregenerate carers to ind the check of yer conscience within you, and the dear perspicuous light of the gospel without you, and some among the number of mourners to mourn for sin, You may mourn your eyes out thereafter, and answer to purpose Better.