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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57937	Heaven's glory, and hell's terror containing the glory of the saints in heaven with Jesus Christ, and the eternal torments of the damned in hell.	Russel, Robert, fl. 1692.	1694 (1694)	Wing R2347E; ESTC R219967	8,408	21

since the Fall 〈◊〉 perfectly to keep the Commandments of God and so by the Works of the Law can never be saved God has by Christ our Redeemer required Faith and Repentance as the Conditions of the Gospel by which Eternal Life is to be had Faith and Repentance is all that God requires in order to our Salvation Repent and believe the Gospel and you shall certainly be saved I will give you as plain Directions as possible I can how you shall attain these two Graces First for Repentance You must know that there are two kinds of Repentance there is a false Repentance and a true Repentance A false Repentance is that which a Man is driven to through fear of Hell and Damnation When a wicked Man lyes upon his Death-bed then he seems to be sorry for his Sins past and makes many fair Promises of a new Life if it should please God to restore him again though in the mean time he likes and loves those Sins he seems to repent of and if it please God to restore him to his former Health he follows his old course again Now this kind of Repentance can never be effectual to Salvation 2. Now you must mind what true Repentance is True Repentatce is a saving Grace whereby a Sinner out of a true sence of his Sin and apprehension of the mercy of God in Christ doth with grief and hatred of his Sin turn from it unto God with full purpose of and endeavour after new Obedience But now seeing without this Repentance there is no getting to Heaven and that we cannot repent of ourselver it is of God's free Gift I will therefore give you some plain Directions how Repentance may be had and how to go through with it for though we cannot repent of ourselves yet if we do not repent the fault lyes upon us 1. The first step to true Repentance is the Examination of your selves try your Hearts and search into your former Life how and after what manner you have spent your time since you have been a Child and to this end I counsel you to make a Catalogue of all your Sins you can possible call to mind for which purpose you must take the Ten Commandments for your Pattern Had I time and room I would for your Memory write you a Catalogue of Sins which is against each of the Ten Commandments but they being so many that I cannot do it in so small a Book as this But I counsel you to get you a Book wherein is the Exposition on the Ten Commandments which shews what are those Sins of Omission and Commission which is against every Command and try yourself by these and labour to find out as many of those Sins as you know yourself to be guilty of for you will find many Sins there that you in your place cannot commit You may only take but one Commandment or two at a time according as your Memory will hold and if your Memory cannot contain all the Sins that you find yourself guilty of you may write them down according as you find them out which way I think to be the best and then every Evening you may make use of this Catalogue for the finding out the Sins that you committed in the Day likewise every Sabbath the Sins you committed in the Week likewise before you receive the Sacrament that thereby you may repent and be humbled for them 2. The second step to true Repentance is the Confession of those Sins you have thus found out you must spread them all before the Lord and confess them all in particular with all circumstances as the time when place where and manner how such and such things are committed Now many confess in general that they are Sinners but few confess their Sins and if your Sins are so innumerable that you cannot find out every particular Sin so as to confess them all in particular then confess the rest in the general And there is no doubt but God will take this for a true and sincere Confession in that there is no known sin that you would willingly hide from God 3. Another step to true Repentance is godly Sorrow for those Sins thus confessed And it is godly Sorrow that works Repentance to Salvation never to be repented of Now for the obtaining of this godly Sorrow you must use these means 1. Lay to heart how good and how merciful God hath been to you How many Tokens of his Love and Kindness he hath bestowed upon you and yet how ill you have required him Seriously consider how he hath delivered you from such and such a Sickness when you were near Death How he hath preserved you from such and such a Danger How he hath delivered you from such and such Enemies That not withstanding your many Provocations yet he hath born with you all this while he hath patience with you and waifs for your Repentance who might in Justice have snatch'd you away whilst you were sinning and sent you quick to Everlasting Burnings Yet still he spares you yet he gives you every day fresh Supplies of his Mercy and as before you were to make a Catalogue of your Sins so here make a Catalogue of God's Mercies those several kinds of Mercies and Favours you have received from him and then lay to heart what a base unthankful Wretch you have been thus to provoke and grieve so good and merciful a God Think thus with yourself O that I should be such a base vile wretch for to provoke and grieve so loving a Father that has been so good and gracious unto me so merciful a Saviour that died for me Such Considerations deeply laid to heart will prick your heart into godly sorrow for your Sius as Peter when he considered how he denied Christ He went out and wept bitterly Matth. 26.75 2. Keep in mind the most of those Sins whereby you have most dishonour'd God and grieved his Spirit this also will be a means to work in you godly Sorrow 3. Ply the Throne of Grace by earnest and constant Prayer that God might take away that stony heart of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh as he hath promised Ezeck 36.26 But it may be God will seem not to hear your Prayers presently if therefore you cannot find your heart to relent the first time go and pray again and again and give God no rest until he hear you and then of a certain one time or other God will mele your hearts into godly Sorrow and Remorse for your former Sins and then this excellent Grace of Repentance is begun and wrought in you 4. The next thing to be done is this Beg heartily to God for the Pardon of your former Sins that they may be cast all behind his back that they may be wash'd away in the Blood of Christ And then lastly make a firm strong and settled Resolution hence forth to lead a new Life this must not be a weak Resolution but it