mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart, that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Ver. 10. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

1 John, iv. 15. Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

II. To Repentance.

2 Chron. vii. 14. If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray; and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin.

2 Chron. xxx. 9. The Lord your God is gracious and merciful, and will not turn away his face from you, if ye return unto him.

Ps. xxxvii. 27. Depart from evil and do good, and dwell for evermore.

Prov. i. 23. Turn ye at my reproofs: behold I will pour out my spirit upon you; I will make known my words unto you.

Jer. iv. 14. O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Is. lv. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will

have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Jer. xviii. 8. If that nation against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

Jer. xxvi. 3. If so be they will hearken, and turn every man from his evil way, that I may repent me of the evil which I purpose to do unto them, because of the evil of their doings. Ver. 13. Amend your ways and your doings, and obey the voice of the Lord your God, and the Lord will repent him of the evil that he hath pronounced against you.

Jer. xxxvi. 3. That they may return every man from his evil way, that I may forgive their iniquity, and their sin.

Ezek. xviii. 21. If the wicked will turn rom all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ver. 22. All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be once mentioned unto him: In his righteousness that he hath done, he shall live. Ver. 23. Have I any pleasure at all that the wicked should die, saith the Lord God, and not that he should return from his ways and live? Ver. 30. Repent, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not prove your ruin. Ver. 31. Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby you

have transgressed, and make you a new heart, and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel? Ver. 32. For I have no pleasure in the death of him that dieth, saith the Lord God: wherefore turn yourselves, and live ye.

Ezek. xxxiii. 14. When I say unto the wicked, thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin and do that which is lawful and right: Ver. 15. If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity: he shall surely live, he shall not die. Ver. 16. None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him; he hath done that which is lawful and right. Ver. 19. If the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Joel, ii. 12. Turn ye even to me with all your heart, and with fasting, and with weeping, and mourning. Ver. 13. And rend your hearts, and not your garments, and turn unto the Lord your God; for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repenteth him of the evil. Ver. 14. Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him, even a meatoffering, and a drink-offering unto the Lord your God?

Zech. i. 3. Turn ye unto me, saith the Lord of Hosts, and I will turn unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts. Mal. iii. 7.

Job, xxii. 23. If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up; thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Eph. v. 14. Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

Acts, ii. 38. Repent, and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost.

Acts, iii. 19. Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord.

To them that mourn for the wickedness of the land. Ezek. ix. 4. Go through the midst of the city, and set a mark upon the foreheads of them that sigh, and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst of it. Ver. 6. Slay utterly old and young. But come not near any man upon whom is the mark.

Repenting in affliction.-Deut. iv. 30. When thou art in tribulation, and all these things are come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God, and shall be obedient to his voice; Ver. 31. (For the Lord thy God is a merciful God,) he will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers, which he sware unto them.

Deut. xxx. 2. If thou shalt return unto the

Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice, ac cording to all I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul; Ver. 3. Then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee. Ver. 8. And thou shalt return, and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments, which I command thee this day.

Job, xxxiii. 27. He looketh upon men, and if any say I have sinned and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; Ver. 28. He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.

Hos. vi. 1. Come, and let us return unto the Lord; for he hath torn, and he will heal us: He hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Confession of sin.-Ps. xxxii. 5. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin.

Prov. xxviii. 13. Whoso confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall have mercy.

1 John, i. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Jer. iii. 12. Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you; for I am merciful, saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Ver. 13. Only acknowledge thine iniquity,