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ER. S.
Epheflans,C hap.
I.
99
pleafure:
If
mÿ
Sonne
doe
that
at my command, upon which
I
can
de-
mand ten fhillings,I who have
the right
ofmy
Sonne andhis
worke,may
take
the
whole,
and
yet give him
of
grace
what
I pleafe.
It doth
confute
the former
dreame;
that which the
riches
of
grace
Vie
T.
doth,
is
full and
perfect, no imperfeét forgiving. Should the King itn-
prifon
a
man, when
he
might hang him,
it
were not
an
a61
of
mercy
par-
doning, but
an aéi of
juftice tempered with mercy.
obj.
But (fay
they
)
punifhment
abideth
to
thofe whom
God
forgiveth out
of
his
mercy
;
as
David,
and
thole for whom cAiof
s
prayed
that God
would for-
give
them,
according to
his
rich
mercy.
vin
fa,.
Ir
doth
fo;
but
it
fo
abideth, that
all
guilt
of
finne
to God
wad
is
taken out
of
it
;
as
it
is
in
the hanging
due to
a
murtherer,
who
heard before time
of
execution,
is
conversed and Baptized
; in
which
cafe,
if
the abiding
of
the
pu-
nifhment
doe not
let
but
forgiveneffe may be
full
and
free,
why
fhould
the remainingofpunifhrnentargue
in
the other apartiall
remiffion
onely
Secondly, this
doth
let
us
fee
what
thankfulneffe we
owe to
God.
Yfe
z.
Shouldone forgive
us
fome great
debt,or
fhould one paffe
by fome pro-
vocations
at
our
hands,
full
of
indignity,
as
David
did at
Shemeic
tom
e-
times,
how would
wetell
of
their love, and let
it forth
e
But
what indig-
nities
have we offered
our God
e
what debt
(land we
in
to
him
?
the
greateft
debt
of
a
thoufand
.talents
:
O then we would love
much,
be
much thankfull;
The
want
of
this maketh
God fometime
hide
the
fenfe
of
forgiveneffe from
us
;
even
as
when plenty
maketh
his bleffings
no
dainties, he
doth
take
them
from us,
that
we
may
feeke
after them,
and
learne to enjoy them with greater thankfulneffe.
Thirdly,
let
us
like
children imitate him, forgiving each the
other,
as
he for
Chrift
his fake
bath forgiven
us. But
of
this hereafter.
Now hecoinmeth
to the fecond
benefit; which
feemeth here
an-
nexed,
not
fo
much to begin
a
fecond branch
of
his
enumeration,
as
to
make
us
conceive aright ofehe
order
in
which
we
come to
receiveremif-
fion from
grace,
viz.
to
prevent
as
that
we
may not thinke that
in
the
firft
place forgivenefs
is
bcflowed, becaufe
that
was firlt
named,
but that we
receive
pardonfrom grace,when now that
rich
grace
ofGod
abounded toward
us in
giving
us
tviredome and
underftanding; Thus
I
conceive the coherence.
Now
the
points
which
are
to
be marked
in
this
matter,
are
thefe:
Firft,
the abundant
Grace
of
God,
the
principali
caufe
ofir.
Secondly
the Perlons, to
(ur)
who
have found
in
him
remiffion
offinne.Thirdlv,the
benefits
in
which this rich grace
had for-
merly
abounded,
in
Wi/edome
and
underJtanding
;
and
thefe are
in
the
S.
vole.
Fourthly, the manner
of
working
theft
benefits,
vi7L
the
re-
velation
of
the myflery
of
his
will;
which
is
amplified
partly from the
efficient caufe
thereof,Gods
free
pleafure, and
this
is
verfe
9.partly
from
theends,verfe
r
o.
To
retorne unto
the eight
verfe.Before we
can
confider
the doétrines,
v
&
n
s
E.B.
it
is fit
to
open
the true meaning
of
it
:
Our bookes read,
bywhichgrace
he abounded
towards
cm,
in
wifedsme,
As
if
this were the
fenfe ;
by
K
a
which