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eynilsionr.
very
gaol
reafon
and
fatisfaftion
,
in
íhewing you how
the infi-
nite
glory of
the mercy
of
God appears,
and
yet
but
few
are
pardoned
;
yea
rather
the
more,
becaufe
that few are pardoned
:
God
would
thereby
manifeft the
more
his
glorious mercy.
t
.
It
may well
fd
and
with
the glorious.
riches
of
the mercy
of
God,that
mai;y
are
defiroyed,and
yet
but
few
pardoned;
tious,Bc-
caufe
that
God would
have
a
proportion between
his
.
uflice
ands_
.Mercy
;
you
fay,he
would
have
a
proportion,Is
not
he
as
merci-
ful
as
he
is
juft
?
Then there
muft
be
as
many
pardoned
as
con-
demned.
No,
if
Gcd
will
obferve
a
proportion
between his
mercy
and
juftice,
and
that
he
will
have
his
Juftice
appear
as
well
as
his
Mercy,then more
muff
be
damned than
faved
;
Hew
does
that
appear
?
thus
;
Bccaufe the
glory
of
Gods
juftice in damning
twenty
hundred,is
not fo
much
as
the
glory of
his
Mercy
in
f
aving
two;
you
may
conceive it by
what
is
ordinarily
ufed
among
men:
If
the King
fave but
two
men
that are Malefactors,
he magnifies
his
mercy
as
much
in
that
as
his juftice
if
he
hang up
a
hundred
:
fo
if
God
fave
but
two,
his
mercy
is
as
much magnified
as
his
ju-
ítice
in
damning twenty hundred,the
reafon
is
this
;
Becaufe
there
is
fomething
in
the
creature
that
calls for
Gods
jujtice,
that
re-
quires that
:
But
there
is
nothing in
the
creature,
that
requires
his
mercy
;
when
God
manifefts
his
juftice, he
does fuch
a
work
as
is
due
to the
Creature
;
there
is
fomething
in
the
Creature
that
challenges
fuch
a
work
from God
:
but
when
God
comes
to
manifeft
mercy,
there
is
nothing
at
all in
us
that
ihould
require
fuch
a
work
from
God
;
no,
his
mercy
is
free, altogether from
himfelf, 'tis
his
own
work,
and
proceeds
from
his own
hearts
love,
and
nothing
in us
that
may challenge
it
from
him
:
Now
feeing
there
is
that
in
the
Creature
that challenges juftice,and no-
thing
at
all
that
-can
require mercy;
therefore if
God
íhew mercy
but to
a
few,
it
is as
great
a
glory
to his
mercy,
as
it
is
to
his
juftice,
if
he
condemn
a
hundred
;
but
if
he
íhould
fave
as
many
as he
condemns, the
mercy
of God
would
be
beyond
all
propor-
tion
to
his
}uftice,
but becaufe
that
cannot be, hence
it
is
that
few
are
faved, and many damned.
Anfwer
2.
There
are
more
damned
than
faved,
becaufe God
would
he
t'by
manifeft his
mercy the
more to
thee
that
art
faved
c,
by
fuffering
fo
many
others to perifh
this
is
one end
that
God