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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, hut that upon which the life of your souls depends for without a thorough sense, and pricking at the heart for sin, there is salvation from sin: He that would be Christ’s disciple, must leave all he hath, father and mother, wife and children, all that’s near and dear to him, and take up the cross and follow Christ. He that would be a true convert, must both confess and grieve for sin, as the prophet Ezekiel saith, They shall remember their ways that were not good, and shall be ashamed, O then, be persueded, poor careless and unregenerate sinners, to mind the check of your conscience within you, and the clear perspicuous light of the gospel without you, and come among the number of mourners to mourn for sin: You may weep your eyes out hereafter to no purpose. Better w eep here a while than for ever in hell, for our Lord Jesus hath said. Blessed are, the mourners for they shall be comforted; O souls! these are no trivial things: press you to; the Lord make you serious in your sorrow for sin, that it may be such godly sorrow as
