116 tie of a Mediator betweenGod and them, but . they apprehend that that God that made them wil hear their crie : NowGod made theAngels and theywere more noble Creatures than you. abur dantlie ,; now the Angels that finned but once, for that one finare cafe for ever, andGod rer lees, though they fhould crie and fhreek, and filed thoùfands oftears for fin, God wil ne- ver hear them; Gods difpleafure againft fin is ,fo great: certainlie then fin is a dreadful evil. Suppofe a Prince were fo wrath with a great companie ofhis Nobles, that he cask a great multitude of them into a Dungeon, and there they endure torment, and the King would not vouchfafe fo much as to enter intoa parley, to be reconciled upon any terms tverie _unc would fay, furclie 'tis force great matter that path provoked theKing : iftheyunderfeand this Prince is verse Jufl, and withal' c'riemerciful;. to be lure he would do none anv wrong, but were veriemerciful above al men in rFie world; and yet for but one offence he fhould call theft his Nobles down into a Dungeon tobe t °Talen- ted,and would byno means be reconciled : e- venie one would conclude, certainlie there was much evil in that offence if it defcrved thus much; andcertainlie for thePrincv.to deal thus, with them there was much in it : Would you not make fucha cortclufion from thence ? then learn to make fucha conclufion from Gods dea- ling with theAngels ; That feeing God is Jut, and can do noCreature wrong ; yea, Gód is in- finitely merciful, andyet hedoth cafehis noble Crea- The Evil of Evils, Or the
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