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fathers, who though themfelves
like
to
live
Libertines, yet they
will
have
their children nurtured by Puritans; but
God
is
otherwife, what
good
he will have in us,
that
is in
him
far
moreexcellentlyand
incom-
prehenfibly.
vis
God
in
chriff
;]
or
Chrift
:
Some reade
Chri(l,the
thing
is
not
much
to be
flood:
Rom.8.39.
The love
ofchrif1, or
the love
of
God
in
ehriff,
are indifferently ufed
,
and
as
it feemeth
is
expreffe
the
fame
thing:
and
to reade
God
herefeemeth more probable,
Be
you.therefore
followers
of
Gad:
The
fcope
of
it
is
from Gods example forgiving us,to
draw
is
to forgiveneffe:
Marke from
it two things
r
I.
Haw
Gods
forgiveneffe
doth eau
feustoforgive,
this
that
thoufands Do¿l
r.
areremitted
to
us,
mull
make
rat
willing
to
forgive
others.
Looke
as
a
wall
Gods
forgi-
Both coil
heat
to
thofe
that
flood
by,
when the
hot
beames
of
the Sun
ring
us muff
doe
reft upon it
:
So we
refleél
pardon upon others when the beanies
give
ahers.
of
Gods pardon have fhined upon our hearts
:
which
doth
teach
us
three
things..
r.
Whom
wee mull chiefely thanke
for
love
and
all
the
fruits
of
love which our brethren
Phew
us,viz.
God
:
His
love
to them
maketh
them
thew love to
us, his
forgiving
them
maketh them
forgive us.
2:
It
dotb
let
us
.how
that
our
forgiving doth
notde
ferve
for.
giveuefle, becaufe it
followeth
and Both
not goe before for
none
can
forgive
his
brother that doth not love
his
brother;
none
can
love
his
brother truly, that,loveth not God
and his
brother
in
him
:
none
can
love
God
but thofe that
are firfl lo-
ved
of
him,
and have
their
fins
covered with him. And this
forgiveneffc
is
an
aétion
of
God
f
mul
&f
mel
,
and
therefore
cannot be
caufed by
the
fruits
which follow
it,as morali verrues
.
caufe
the
aâionsofthem,
and
are againe increafed
by
their
exercife.
When
the Scripture therefore biddeth
us
forgive
that
we
may be forgiven, it meaneth
of
the fenfe,
that
we
may
fede
fealed
to
our
(pints Gods pardon.
3.
It
doth
teach
us
what
we muff doe when we
finde our love'
cold, not ready toforgive,looke at God
;
even
as
it is
the next
way
to
warme
us,
to
(land
by
a
good
fire
:
So
hour
carts
(fro-
zen
in
regard
of
love) cannot be holpen
better thenwith
floo-
ding
in
thofe games
of Gods
grace to
us
-ward.
This teacheth
us
the manner
of
forgiving
which
wee
muff labour
to
Daft
n;
refembk;
wemxfl
forgive
as God
bath
forgiven; not that wee
can with
We
muff
for
-
equall
perfei
lion
,
but truly and
in
fome fort
like
unto
it
, as
the
fifth
forgiv
«hod
petition.
Now if
we looke
how God bath
forgiven us, we
(hall
finde;
.tio
v
God
r.
That
he
hath
forgiven
us
many
fins in
number,great
ones in
nature:
forgivech
2. He
bath freely done it, though
it
colt Chrift
deare, we have it gra-
tis.Rom.3.24.
We
are
Wiled
freely
by
his
grace. 3. He
bath
done
it
perfectly,
as all
thofephrafes
(hew,
remembring them
no
more
:
remo-
er.
;
:.34'
wing
them
44
far
as
the Eafl
from
the
Weff,
¿c.
rra.,o;.
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569
Which doth
teach
us
that
we muff labour even
thus
to
forgive:
and
Ili.
D
d d
this