Part; 1.Cap.3 • v'!jflif'fed C onftie;;cet. , JPoktn ttgainft every "W_he:-e; _into which ~ee concei~ 1 , ved, fuch fevere Mtmfrenall counfell would have · ,conduCted us; I fay~ wee wickedly wrefted outof .our vexed confciences, thofe keene arrowes oftruth und terrour, wtth great indignation; weeunhappid ly hardened our hearts ~nd for~heads apainfr the power ofthe \iVord, whtch particularly purfued us every Sabbath: Nay, alas 1 wee p~rfecuted the ve~ ry meanes, which ihould fmCl:itie us; and men, which would have faved us. Here then is my Cafe and complaint ; negleCl:ing that ble{fed feafon,when I was firfl: terrified and troubled in minde ; -when the !V"fmre!l from Heaven, as· it were, trou6led the "' f . -Water; and whenfome, even .o mmeowne Compa- ·nions in iniquity, were converted; I am afr"..·aid, I now come too late,that the mercy ofGod. to doe me 371 · fpirituall good, is already expired; and that the Mi• nifb:y, which I l;lave fa wretchedly oppofed, is the very fame to mee, that it was to the obfl:inate I ewe t. I(a.6.9,10. Nay,butyet fay not fo; though it bee with thee as thou haft: faid : For our gracious God k!;epeth mercy for thou(andi. h Here you mufl: know, &N~': Ji~·o tlbi ufque. that a finite number is put Synetdochicallyfor an infi- fepttes.,f~u[que feptr,u,-. nite,and an infinite indeed.And therf;)re ifthou now t~;a~fhmfttr] M tt. ~s fi ~~ b . _..n. d . 11 . . . h d if" r ,ra 1/aUr?teTIIJS lit• em ear~1o.1., an Wl mg to. come-m,mtrut _; an tar pro infinit8 panitur. tho!e tlune other bretheren m good Fellowfh1p,and Sic vown rnifJe madifi· hundreds,thoufatJds, millions mo:::,or any whofoever cJntflebr<fi!Ex.od,J~·r to the worlds end, God bath mercy in frore for you se.r'IJ_anr miforzcordtai1A all; and being all \\1eary of all our jinnes, unfainedly ~z!Jtbus 1 Beumler. 'L.:..ll.· c L W ll fl·c. r. l . c. h . h.herot,l. r.c. 14, tmm.mg ror tue e o · ue; re10 vmg ror t e tlme t? come, uptm new courfes, company, and converfatton; you !hall all bee mofr welcome to It{ m Chrift. Even the.lafl: man uponearth,bringit~g atruly broken heart to theThrone-ofgrt~ce,fhall be crowned as rich~ ly,andwith as large aportionofGods infinitemercy 1 . and Chrifrsnn-va1ewable merit, as!Y.fdamand Eve, _or whofoever ~ayd fu:fr hold of that firit pr01nife: ' eA a-4 The
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