2.20 Evangelical Repentance. remiffion is brougheneer unto a people, before ever they didmake after it. And this ( I fay) you (hall find fulfilled. So God hath dealt by theworld. So by particular Kingdoms, and Na- .tions in the world. So by particular Town!, andCountries in a Kingdom. So by particular Families in a Towne. And fo by particularperjons in a family. Thus God bath dealt with theWorld, He hath brought neer the Kingdomof Grace, and Mercy, and free-remiffion to the World, before ever the World did make after it. When thewhol World had finned in the fall, and lay in wickednefs, and never thought of returning untoGod ; job. 46 God fo loved the world, that helent his only begotten Son to them. WhenAdam didnot think of Chritt,nor theworld inhim; Gen.3.15 theLord givesout a promite, The Seed if the Woman(hall breaktbe Serpents head. Thus mercy, and grace made it's approach towards the world, before ever the world did leekafter it. So in regard of a Nation, in regard ofa Kingdom in the world : Go (faies our Lord and Savior Chrill unto his Dif- ciples) and teach all Nations. The Nations did not come to Chrift and fay, Lord, the jewes have refilled the Gof- pel, and therefore we befeech thee that theGofpel maybe n unto us, and we will receive it : No, 'but before ever they fent any Inch rneffage to have the Gofpel come down to them, the Gape' is lent to them, Go (faies our Savior) Gopreach to all Nations. But Lord (they might fay ) Suppofe that in thole nations we meet with filch a man as Herod, Inch a man as Pilate; Mall we preach the Gofpd, and free rerniffion of fins then to Inch a one ? Go ( faies Chrift,) I make no exceptions ; Go, and preach toall Na- tions. But fit ppoie that a jud.g come in when we are prea- ching the Gofpel. Sales Ch riff, I t;nakeno exceptions, if -a yttdal will come and fabrnit, Coe, preach to all, Gee preach the Gofpel, Gopreach to all Nations. " And was it not thus with the Nation of the jetres, as ye 'I.reade in the 16. Chapter ofthe Prophelie.of Ezekiel, when they
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