folfe,inrir:hing examinAtion. 1 IIJ ·as hell, as red as bloud,,as foule as sot14me,-yet if/ now in this time of grace you will faithfully turne untothe Lord, alfuredlyyoufhall finde eafe, ftnto . your pami11g _hearts, an~ everiafiing peace unto your troubled foules. If" flltJ?J be divorced frfJmhi.r wife. andfoe ber~me.aNOther f!Ja?ll ,jhalthe ret11r11eagaiiJe .untgher,fhoultl fJ{)t t!Je trmdbe dcjiletl tkrebJ? BTti tho11 hdjlplaidthewhorewith fltl/!l) !overt) tiiJdJtl retHriJu1n.. l ttJf!JefoiththeLord,Ier. 3· 1. Hence itapreares~that / . though our pollutions be many, our abominations hatefull, our vowes and promifes unto him often broken ; yet upon our unfained repentance he is tea:dy to receive tTs . But above all others me thinks 1 thereisoneplace inifay 5.5·?,8)9· whic]l isa?Ieto·i put Jife apd frefb "·jgo~rJnto the m.ofi defpairing · fouie ; arid_·to refrefh tbe drooping confcience of the truly penitent, with farre more comfort, than this whole.great wodd were ~ble to doe, if it were wholly turned into gold, honours <;>r pleafures; nay, .than ten ·thoufimd _worlds, ·if there were fo many. LtUhewicftcdforfakghit~a;et ; (faithGodby theProphetin thatplace)a»dtheunrigi_;teou. 1 hitowiJ imagitJt:tiom, t~nd tilr11e unto !he ~8rd, 141Jd he/hetllhave f!ltYCJ upo11 him;fJII,d toDHr God.forh' i1very r~ady to for- , give: FQrmythoNghtsare 1JtJtat yo~~rtho,ghtt,11or fii.J j rPtZJet MJOIIr~tJJet,faith the T-or/,: BMt as highas th"hea– VeiJI 41'e4!JIJVe IDetlrth, fo highare f11JrP4Jts · .h.o,H~JONr r:~ayet)a!J(/ fiiJ thought/ ~bOfJeJOHr thtJUghts. Yom)nurt conceive the m~ningthus;t.hat ~h~ Lord~b~re Jra• hours to draw ·his "people to the fonnt~iries pf grace, and todrive·tlaem fro~diftrufrfulnelfe, .by a confi61eration of !his tranfcendent and un1imit~d · · f( r.nerctes• .
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