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Go
fiel
Pemt
on.
Zi7
n,00e
you
to
come
in,
and
tells
them they
flrall
not take
a
denyal
at
your
hands, 2
Cor.
5.
zo.
They
intreat
and
beg as
in
his
Name
,
nay
it
is
the
befeechings and
intreatings
of God
him-
felf
;
as
if
a
King fhould
fend one
of
the Attendants on him
to
a
poor
condemned
Prifoner,
and fay,
Go
tell
fuch
a
one
that he
muff
come
for
his
pardon
,
and
tell him
,
I
befeech
him,
and
take no denyal
of
him
,
I
befeech
him
to
come
in
;
would
not
this
manifeft the
great
willingnefs
ofthe
King
to
pardon
;
God
does fo,
he
fends
his Minifters
and
befeeches
you
to
come
in
and
take
a
pardon
;
'tis
as
certain
God
fpeaks
thus
by
his Miniffers,
as
it
you heard God fpeaking
by
hint
-
felf, this Mould move you
to
come
in, Cirri
ft
begs
and in-
treats
you
to
be
reconciled,
that
his
blood
might not
be
filed in
vain :
feeing
it
is
fo, that
God
begs
of
thee
to come in,
why
fhuuldeft
not
thou
come in, and
take
pardon
of
thy
fin,
Why
can'tf not thou
come in and
give up
thy
felt
and all
thou haft and
art to
him
?
Seventhly,
Kyeow
it
is
the
great
office
and
trork,
of
Chrifis
me
-
diatorfhip
to
bind
up
the broken
hearts
of
wounded
inners,
Ifa.
61
i.The
Spirit of
the
Lord
is
upon
me,and
he
bath anointed
me,
he
bath
Pent
me to
preach
good
tidings
to
the
meek:
he
bath
fait
me
to
bind
up
the broken
hearted,to
proclaim liberty
to
the
Cap-
tives,and
the opening
of
the
Prifon
to
them
that
are
bound
;
this
in the
New
Teftament
is
applyed to
Chrift. Now
this being
the great work
for which
Chrift
came
into the
world,
to
bind
up
the
broken-
hearted,fee
whether thou
canft not
rely
on
Chrift
by an
a&
of
faith, this fhould
be
a
great
incouragement.
Eighthly,
Confider
that,
that
God thou haft
to
dial withal,
his
nature
is
mercy
in
the
abftralt
;
and
if fo,
he
is
free
in
his
mercy
;
as
the
Sun
fhines,
becaufe
it's
the nature
of
it to
Thine
;
to the mercy of
God
muff needs
work freely,
becaufe
it
is
his
nature
;
as
the
fire burns
naturally, Exod.
34. and
Mic. 7.
iß.
God
pardons
becaufe
he
delights
in
mercy
;
thou
fay
thou
art
a
poor
fanner
;
well,
though
it be
fo,
yet thou
may'ft
fay,
though God
can
fee
nothing
in
me,
yet
feeing
that
he
is
a
God
that
delights
in
mercy,this may
move
me
to come
in
:
or
T.
He
bath
mere
delight in pardoning
any
finner than in a.
the
creatures of
heaven
and
Earth
;
God
delights
in all
the
P
f
works