...children of Israel seem to be exhorted to this very thing as a remedy against falling away ; ver. 31. " Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby...heart and a new spirit ; for why will ye die, O house of Israel ?" They needed not only to turn from their transgressions, but to cast them away utterly,...

...12. "Re* pent and turn yourselves from all your transgressions ; so iniquity shall not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby...new heart, and a new spirit ; for why will ye die, О house of Israel? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God ; wherefore...

...any inward principle of grace or holiness :" I ask, how is this consistent with, the 31st verse, ' Cast away from you all your transgressions whereby...ye have transgressed, and make you a new heart and anew spirit?' Is this a " merely outward righteousness, without agy inward principle of grace or holiness...

...them are rather too apt to shun the use of some scriptural terms to this effect: such as " Make you a new heart, " and a new spirit, for why will ye die, O house of Is" rael."* " Make the tree good and his fruit good."f They, who attempt exactness in discrimination,...

...yet they are equally clear, in requiring sinners to make themselves a new heart, and a new spirit. " Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby...heart, and a new spirit ; for why will ye die, O house of Israel r" Surely, there can be no natural inability, no insuperable difficulty, in sinners casting...

...from before mine eyes ;" that is inwardly in the heart, " Cast away from you all your transgressions, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit ; for why will ye die ?" * Surely the doctrine contained in these commands, differs but little from that contained in the...

...Again: "Circumcise the foreskin of your hearts, and be no more stiff-necked." Deut. x. 16. "Make you a new heart and a new spirit ; for why will ye die, O house of Israel!" EzeJs. xviii. 31. (Is not this all one in substance with that scripture, " He that bfeliereth...

...same chapter, may yet be pertinently applied for our direction and comfort. The command.] " Mnke you a new heart, and a " new spirit; for why will ye die?" Ezek. xviii. 31 . The prayer.] " Create in me a clean heart, O " God, and renew a right spirit within...

...« James, iv. 8. evil of your doings from before mine eyes ; cease to do evil, learn to do well '. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby...a new heart and a new spirit ; for why will ye die f ? Let the wicked forsake his ways, and the Unrighteous man his thoughts ; and let him return unto...

...your transgressions ; so iniquity will not be your ruin. Cast away from you all your transgressions, and make you a new heart and a new spirit; for why will ye die ? For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, flaith the Lord God ; therefore turn yourselves,...