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Thus have you briefly the reasons of the print that this is the way of God's working that sorrow and contrition of heart for is the way to conversion from sin, and turning to God. I now proceed to the application.
The first shall be for instruction.
The second for reproof and complaint.
The third for exhortation.
Use I. It is so that this sorrow, under the burden and weight of sin, will pierce a man's soul to the quick, and grinds him as it were to powder, being run through the arrows of the almighty, and that it is so great necessity to be humbled and greatly sorrowful for sin. Then let this teach how to carry themselves one towards at ther, and to such as God hath dealt the with having their souls pierced. O do you pity them They lie down in sorrow, the bread of adversity, and drink the water of affliction, have compassion on them See what the Lord says, Deut. xxi. Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox nor a sheep go astray and hide thyself from there thou shalt in any case bring them again to thy brother.
And henceforth the Lord commanded
