Matthew Poole and continuators on Ezekiel 18:31

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?

Not only cease from sin, but with indignation throw it away as a loathsome, pernicious thing, or as a burthen that will sink you.

As God requires, so 'tis the property of true Repentance, that it does frame the heart against its own sins.

Open your eyes, and let the clear convincing light of my words, arguments, and proceedings shine upon you, do not obstinately harden your hearts, that you should retain your old prejudices against my Justice and Mercy, but receive new opinions and tenets concerning the things I have been clearing to you, That new Judgment may produce a renewed and reformed course of Life. Your old heart is made up of strange Notions of your Innocence, and the inequality of the wayes of your God, and this influenceth your Spirit to pride, quarrelling with God, who might have convinced you by severer methods, which should have put you as far out of doubt about the cause of your punishment, as out of hope of deliverance from it: Or else thus, I have proposed enough to change a considering heart, to renew the Spirit of any thinking man, cooperate with me. See your sin, guilt, punishment, all yours, and from your selves repent of sin, confess your guilt, deprecate your punishment.

There is no other way for you to be delivered; your old wayes, and heart will end in Death; this is an argument taken from their danger by old sins.

Marginal references: Jer. 32.39. chap. 11.19. and 36.2[illegible: 1 letter].