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    madly resolute to do the contrary . It might be great wisdom to for . sake the errors , though of tbe . oaly visible church , much more of the Roman , which , in conceiving herself the whole visible church , does somewhat like the frog in the fable , which thought the ditch'he lived in to be all the world .

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    ther had nor should have just rea * son to say so ) That their fathers hbdv . eaten sour grapes end their teeth were set on edge ; lastly , All such as lay their sins upon divine prescience and predestina * tion > saying with their tongues , O what wretched sinners liave we been ! but in their hearts , How could we help it ! We were , predestinate to it , we could not do

    otherwise . —All &uch as seriously persuade themselves , and think to hide their nakedness with such fig-leaves as these , can no ¦ more be said to acknowledge themselves guilty of a fault * than a mai > that was born blind , or Lame , with the

    stone or gout , can accuse himself with any fault for being so . Welt may such an one complain'and bemoan himself , and jsay ^ O wretched man that I ani , ^ who shall deliver ; me from this ur * faappiness ! But such a complaint is

    as far from being * a true acknowledgment of atiy fciuks ; as a bare acknowledgment of a Tajuljt is from true repentance . For tQ , confess a fault is to acknowledge , that truly and ? -willingly wrtlidut * any constraint or AinaVoHabFe ^^ i «*

    tessity , we Irave transgressed Hh *^ 1 &V * r of Gody it being in our p ^ vife ^ by God ' s gracey to have < ionfc 6 thNetw i se „ To aggra v a te t his fafa \ t i h to confess we ? have doiie $$ ' \ tfh ^ fc we might easily have avoided i % and had no . great > n&r *' titfft&it

    temptation to it : fo pr ^ teiid ^ iififif great difficulty in lhein « fttelr r ^ 1 tft excuse and exteivunter itH -tmtf ^ to say , that * all tbin ^ xfondider ^ H ^ ft was absolutely lmpo ^ srbfetfor jr ^ ul to avoid it , > is ftatty to d «^ it . '

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    41 ^ Chilling-worth .

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    No . XL False Repentance . Some satisfy themselves with a Bare confession and acknowledgment *" ' ' either that they are sinners in general , or that they have

    tcommitted such and such sins in particular ; which acknowledgment comes not yet from the heart hi k great many , but only from their lips arrd tongues : For how many are they that do rather complain and murmur thai they

    are ' si'faners , than acknowledge and Confess it ; and make it , upon the mifct ^ er , rather their unhappiness and misfortune , than their true fault ; that they are so ? Such are all they who impute all their commissions of evil to the unavoidable

    want of restraining grace , and all their omission of good to the like want of effectual exciting grace ; all such as pretend , that the commands of God are impossible to be kept any better than they art kept ; and that the world , the flesh and the devil are even

    omnipotent enemies ; and that God neither doth , nor will , give sufficient strength to resist and

    overcome them ; all such as ' lay all | h e i r fau I ts u ^ iIYi A da rn > and sa : y , ivith those rebellious Israelites ( wfyom God assure * that they nei *

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1814, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2442/page/32/