Ezekiel 18:31

Eze 18:31 Cast away from you all your transgressions, whereby ye have transgressed; and make you a new heart and a new spirit: for why will ye die, O house of Israel?

Ver. 31. Cast away from you, &c. ] And so evidence the soundness of your repentance. He that repenteth with a contradiction, as continuing in his sins, shall be pardoned with a contradiction - that is, cast into hell.

All your transgression. ] All, as well as any; else ye do but take pains to go to hell. Gideon’s one bastard slew all his seventy sons; so will one bastardly sin, reserved and allowed, slay the soul. Men should do by their sins as our forefathers did by the Danes here, make an utter riddance of them; and as the Sicilians did by the French among them, whom they not only massacred to a man, but also ripped up all their own women that were with child by the French, that not one drop of French blood might remain among them.

Make you a new heart. ] Wait upon God for it in the constant use of means, that ye may bring forth fruits meet for repentance.