...expectation whereof, is the great argument to repentance, and holinefs of life : Actsxvii. 30, 3i. And the times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every-where torefent : Becaufe he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in nghteoujnefs, by...

...arguments to a good life. So St. Paul tells the Athenians, the moft knowing among the Heathen : The times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent : becaufe he hath appointed a day in the •which he will judge the world in...

...appeareth in a quite different light ; and the apoftle had reafon to fay, as he doth Affs xvii. 30. The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every where to repent. And not only is this a confideration which ftrongly urgeth us to repentance...

...which he thus declares his Senfe with regard to the Times before the Gofpel, and the Times fince ; And the 'Times of this Ignorance God •winked at, but now commandeth all Men everywhere to repent. Where the Command to repent being oppofed to God's winking at the Times of Ignorance, plainly mews,...

...chriftianity had no myfterious doctrines to teach. Hear what Paul fays in the Areopagus at Athens. The times of this ignorance God winked at, but now commandeth all men every where to repent. Becaufe he hath Appointed a day In the which he 'will judge the world in right...

...10. Behold, I bring you good tidings of great ................ 269 SERMON II. ACTS xyii. 30. 4^. t/ie times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent ................ 287 SERMON III. 2 COR. vi. 2. Behold, now is the accepted time ; behold, now is the...

...of the Lord. " Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye " are too superstitious: — the times of this ignorance '.' God winked at ; but now commandeth all men <( every where to repent." Repentance towards God is the great and leading duty enjoined both in the...

...evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. SERMON 20. 380 THE UNIVERSAL JUDGMENT. AcTS xvir. 30, 31. And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but...to repent, because he hath appointed a day in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that Man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath...

...preached on Acts xvii. 30, 31. " And the times of this ignorance, God winked at ; but now commanCi'th all men, everywhere, to repent ; because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained ; whereof he hath...

...repentance unto the gospel revelation, Acts xvii. 30. speaking to the Heathens at Athens, he says, the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men every where to repent. — Here it is plain, that men left to the light of nature, are left without...