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Golpel

R,emifsion.

the

feeking

unto

God

for

his

pardoning grace

till

that

time,

it

is

to put

a

great difhonour

upon

God,

for

it

is a

putting

of

it

off

to

the

worft

time

that poflibly

can be.

And that

makes

much

to

the difhonour

of God

:

For

Firft, ?hole

men

feek..pardon

of

fn,

when

fin

is

leaving

them,

or they muff

leave

fin

whether

they

will

or

no

;

when you have

ferved

your

own

turn

of

fin,after

you

have

had

as much

fuppofed

pleafure

as

you

can,

then

you think to

be

delivered

from

the

guilt

and

punifhment

of

fin

;

what

is

there

but

a

meer

felfifh

fpirit

in

feeking

God

now, and

God

fees it fo

it

is

not

feeking

after

pardon

of

fin

that you

may

honour God

in

his

infinite

grace,

for

then you would feek

after

?t

now,

and the

honour of

God

would

be

dear to

you

now

;

but

you

feek

it

at

fuck

a

time

meer-

ly

out

of

refpet4 to

your

felves,

this

is a

great difhonour

to

God,

It

is

the

firft

born

of

Gods

glory

to

pardon fin

;

and

for

God

to

fee men

and women have no

higher

ends

in

feeking

pardoning

grace,

but

meerly

to

fave

their

own skins

How

may

God

look

upon

them

with

difdain

?

What

fhall

I

magnifie

the

riches

of

my grace

fo wonderfully in this

work

of

my pardon-

ing

mercy

?

And

shall

my

creatures

feek

after it

for no other.

end, nor higher

aims, but

meerly to

fave

their

own

skins

?

you.

bring

down the

grace

of

God,

that that

is

the top

of

his

infinite

Majefty

and

Glory

you put

to

a

low and

,safe

end

;

therefore

put not off feeking

it

to

the lafl,

'tis

a

great

difhonour

to his

grace.

2.

It

is

the warf?time,becaufeyou

come to

feek

after

pardoning

grace

when

it

is

the

time

of

Gods

wrath,

Prove,

i

1.4.

the time

of

afflielion,

and

trouble,

ficknefs,

and

death,

is

call'd

the day

of

wrath

;

Riches avail

not in the day

of

Gods

wrath

Riches

avail

for

comfort at

prefent,

but

in

the day

of

wrath

they will

not

:

God

hath his

day

of

of

fic`lion,

and

his

day

of

wrath,

he

bath

his time to come

to

vifir men

for their

fins

:

Now then,

for peo-

ple te.come

to

feek

to

have the

pardon

of

their

fins

when

Gods

time

is to

vifit

for

fin,

that

muff needs

be

the

worft

time

that

pof-

fibly

can

be.

I

reafon

thus,

and

confider

of

it

;

if

God

does

de-

ny

his

mercy

in the day

of mercy,

is

it likely, that

he will

grant

mercy

in the day

of

wrath

?

while you

are

alive,

and have

li-

berty,

health and opportunity

to

come

to

hear

the

Doctrine

of

the