e%ePow anz fa.míïp Toot. 95 Repentance, but fan and die, is all that it faith. Is it all our work from year to year, to Magnifie the mercy of God in Chrift, and (g) to intreat men to accept ofmercy, and not to refufe it or abufe it ? and yet muft it be faid, that we preach not mercy ? I pray you telii me, Sir, what is the doctrineof mercy that you would preach if you were in our Read ? "El. I would tell them of the mercy of God, and " that it is greater than our fins, and that Chrift dyed " for (inners, and that they that believe in him and truft God fhall be faved. T. What it is to Believe in Chrift and TrufizGod, Ihave opened to Saul already ; And muft not oft re- peat the fame things. Wedoubt not but Gods mercy is greater than our fins : But no unholy foul fhall be Paved by it For this merciful God hath Paid, that without Holinefs none fhall fee God, Heb. 12. 14. The Sun is brighter than our eyes : And yet the blind cannot fee by it. We tell them of the exceeding mercy of God, and of the fufficiency of the facrifice and Merits of Chrift : But we tell them withal that the rejecting of this Chrift and mercy, will increafe their mifery, and be the food of the never-dying worm, the torment of their Confcience to remember it for ever. Read Heb. 3, and6, and t o, and 12 and fee whether we fay true or not. Would you tell the people that All men fhail befaved ? Or that any other Faith and Repentance would fave them, than fuch as I defcribed ? cc El. I would tell them that a quiet and rober Reli- gion will be accepted, better than all the ftir you ce make ; and that all this ado, and noire about Religion (g)47114.18.I 9. 2 G'or.s. i 9. " to
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