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134
.Gopl
Temilsion.
in failing, and
in
the
Arc
of
Navigation,
if
one vilifie
your
work,
and
find
fault will you
there, 'tis
as
if
one
touch'd
your
free
-hold
,
you cannot bear it
;
Why
?
becaufe
you ac-
count
it
your excellency;
fo
it
is
between
us
and
God
,
if
we
wrong
Go
d in
that which
he
accounts
his
excellency,
he
can-
not
bear
it
:
Now
the
pardoning
mercy
of
God
is
that which
God
counts his
excellency and
glory,
Exod.
39,.
when
God
defcended
to
pen Mors
his
glory,
his
Pardoning Mercy
was
one
of
the
great
Mafter-peces,
wherein God
accounted his
glory
to confift
,
more
than
in
the making
of
Haven
and
Earth
:
Now for God
to
be
contemn'd
in
that wherein
his
glory
confills,
muff
needs
be a
great
difhonour
to
him
;
the
mercy
of
God
comes
from
the
bowels
of
his
compaffons;
Now
if
you
ftrike
one on
the arm
or
Moulder,
it
is not
fo
much
as
if
you
ftrike
him
on
his
Bowels
;
when you
difhonour
the
pardoning grace
of
God,
you
do
as
it
were fpurn
at
the
Bowels
of
God
and
Chrift,
and
he
accounts it
fo
:
certain-
ly
you that
can
hear this,
and
negleci
it,
and
prize
and
pre-
fer
every
bare
tuft
before
it,
you
do
as
it
were go
up and
down
kicking
and
fpurning
at
the bowels
of God
;
and
that
Child
that
fhould fpurn
at
his
Mothers
bowels
is
not
fo much
to
be
blamed
as
thou
art
that goeft
on
in fin
after thou haft
beard
the pardoning grace
ofGod
opened
to thee, thy
going
on
in
fin
is a
fpurning
at the
very
bowels
of God.
Secondly,
This
aggravates
the
fin
of
filch
men above
the
fns
of
the Heathen
;
their
fins
are nothing
in
comparifon
of
thofe
that
live
under
the
Gofpel,
and have
the grace
of
God
open-
ed
unto them
;
at the
Day
of
Judgement,
when
thou
heareft
them
condemned
for
fns
a-;ainft
the
Light
of Nature,
they
may
fay,Lord,What fhall
become
of
thefe
?
we never
heard
of
fuch
grace
and
pardoning mercy
in
Chrift
as
you
heard
of,
that
have lived
in filch
and fuch
a place, and
have had the
pardoning
mercy of
God
opened to you
;
if
they
do not
plead
againf}
you
,
yet it will
be
made known before
all
Men
and Angels
what you
have
heard,
and
what
has
been
preach-
ed
unto
you,
and
what
God
has
done
for you
and
for you
to
continue
in fin
,
your
fins
will
thereby
be
aggravated,
and
your
condemnation
heightned.
Thirdly,