7. The danger will further appear in respect of Repentance; while our hearts and sin are agreed we can never repent, therefore Repentance is called 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 the turning of the heart another ways. A man will never repent of what he loves;
Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there.
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- Oldfield, James.
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- 1687.
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"Sincerity, or, The upright mans walk to heaven in two parts shewing I. that sincerity is the true way to happiness, II. that the keeping of our selves from our own iniquity is the true way to sincerity / delivered in several sermons in the parish church of St. Michael in Long-Stratton Norfolk by James Oldfield, late minister there." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A53271.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 9, 2024.
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while a man loves sin in his heart, he will never repent of it truly and sincerely, and therefore the Scripture requires the heart as the main thing in conversion, 11. Acts 23. where the bent and purpose of the heart goes, that's the way that a man goes that's his rode. Now a man that is riding a journey for a friends company, may ride a mile or two out of his way, or to see a great Town may ride a little out of his way, but he turns into his old rode again, so a sinner his rode is to Hell, perhaps to stop the mouth of Conscience, or for fear of the Laws, or to please a Godly friend he may abstain a while from sin, and so turn out of his rode, O but he will into his old rode of sin again, till the heart be truly changed a man is never truly con∣verted, nor ever truly repents of sin; on the other side when a man's rode lyes to Heaven, he is bent thither with full pur∣pose of heart, though perhaps by reason of a temptation or weakness, he fall now and then into sin and perhaps gross sins, yet he turns into his rode again, Peter assoon as he had sinned presently repented. And David assoon as Nathan the Prophet had awakened him, and discovered to him
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that he was out of his rode, presently turn∣ed into his rode again. O Brethren, from hence you may gather what an hard nay impossible thing 'tis for a man, whose heart and sin can close together, for such a man while such to repent and be con∣verted, consider then your hearts, and la∣bour to know your own hearts which way they stand affected, which way the frame and bent, and purpose, and edge is turn∣ed, and if it be thus that sin and they are not utter enemies, know that your Estate is very dangerous, that as yet you never have truly repented, nor is it possible for you, unless your hearts be changed ever to repent.