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21

6

Go el

kemi

1on.

with people

to

run after

Sermons, but

now

thou begin'!}

to

feel

the

died

of

it,

And

the

glory of

God

appears

to

thee

in

this place,

when thou

art

hearing of

his

Word

;

thou

may'ír

hence.reafon,

as 21?anoa's

wife,

Judg.

13.

23.

That certainly

if

God

had intended

to

have-

.fulled

N4,he

would not

have

received

a burnt

O.

f

Bring

and a

meat Offering

at

our

hands;

neither

would

he

have

fi,e

teed ru

all

theft. things

;

to

fay to

thy

foul

if

God

had intended

to

kill

me,

he

would not

have been

fo

willing

to

have

drawn

me

after him,

neither

would

he have

Mewed

me

all

there

things,

and let

that

be

an

incouragement

unto

thee.

Fourthly,The

end

why

God

continues this world

in

being,

ís

that

he

might

give

pardon

to

his

Eled

;

certainly

this

world

had been

ciifloived

long

ago, if it were not that

he

might

bring

pardon to

his

Elect,

and to

th'

;fe

that

fee

their

fins

;

this

muff

needs

be

a

great

incouragement

to

a

foul,

viz,

to

thole

that

fee

their

fins,

to

come

in

;

when

this

pardoning

work

is

done,

Jhrifi.

gill

deliver

up

his

Kingdom

to

his

Father

if

a

Malefa

or

.íhould

come

to

fue

out

his

:pardon,

and one

íhould

fay

unto

him,.

'tis

well

Sir

you are come,

for

the King

would not have

kept

his

Court

fo

long

there,

but that you

íhould

come

in

;

were not this

a

great incouragement

?

fo

fay

I,

tztere

it

not

that

men íhould come to get the

pardon

of

their

fin, the

Court

of

the

world would

have

been

broken up

long

before

this time.

Fi£hly,The principal

fcope

of

the

Scriptures

is

for

this very

end,to

reveal

the

pardoning

grace

of

God

;

you

llave

here

the

heart of

God

laid open

;

Chrifr

wept

and

mourned

that

(in-

ners

.would

not come

in,

that

they

might

be

pardoned

and

.laved. I have

read

a

ftoxy,rhat in

Athens there

uw

a Temple,

and

in

that

there

was

a

woman weepin

(,and

in

one

hand

fhe

had

a

bleeding

F1cart,amd,

with

the other

fhe was

writing

Pardons;

fo

Chrift

he

funds

weeping over

you, that

you

witl

`not

come

in,

and he

bath

a

bleeding

heart,

bleeding

for you

in

the

one

hand;

'and

with the

other

hand

he

is

ready

to

write

you

a

pardon,

-Eui

.

19.

41,42.

nay,

he

46es

not

only

weep:

But

the

Sixth

incouragement

may

be,

He

fends

his

)imb,,radors

to

woos'