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Go
fel
l,era
f
S,on:
2S7
you
in
the
Name
of God
,
and fay
to you , the
fins
you
have
committed
already are
fo
grievous, that
it
muff
needs
be
a
won-
derful
work
of God to forgive
them;
and
whar,muft you
needs
add
more
and
more,
and
tempt
God
to
extend
his
mercy
fur-
ther
?
Take
heed
of
tempting
God
to extend
his
mercy
further,
for
though
God
may
be
pleafed
to
extend his mercy thus far
;
Who
fhall prefcribe
God
how
far he
(hall go
?
Who
can tell
but
that
the
thoughts
of
God
towards
thee
are thus, that
he
will
go
thus far to
pardon
thee
,
but
if
thou go
on
in
fin,
who
can
tell
whether
he will
go
on
to pardon
further
?
'Tis
true,
when
God
comes
to
pardon,
he
will
do
them
all
away
;
but know
thou
that, goeft
on
to increafe the
guilt
of
thy
fin,
thou
maift
find
it,
as
many thoufands have found it
a
mighty hard thing,
which hath coif them much anguifh
and diftrefs
of fpirit,
to get
the pardon
of their
fin
fealed
in
the
Court
of
Confcience,
though
it
was
fealed
before
in
Heaven
;
O
the
anguifh
of
fpirit
it
bath
colt
them
I
and
dolt
thou
Rill
go
on
to heap
up
more
and
more
fin,
as
if
the pardon
of thy
fin was
noshing
?
there
is
a
great deal
of
reafon
in
this,
to
cry
to
(inners to
flop
in
the courfe
of
fin;
for
thou
haft
gone
on
enough
already,
go
no
further, that's
a
fecond
abufe
of the mercy
of
God
in
pardoning
fin.
Thirdly,They
abufe the
mercy
of
God
that
have
extream
flight
thoughts
of
pardon
offin,that
think
to
have
it
at any
time, when
they
will,'tis
but
repenting;
as
it was faid
of
Lewis
the
r
z. King
of France,Tbat
he
wore
a
Crucifix in
his
Hat,
and
when
he.had
committed
afin,
it
was but
taking
it
down
and
long
of
it,
and
all
was well
againt,fo many IdolatrousPapiftsythey have
as
flight
thoughts
of
pardon of
fin
as
can be,
if
they
commit
a
fin,
they
make
no
more
of
it,
but
go to
a
Prieft
to
fhrieve
them, or
kneel
before
a
Crucifix
and knock
their breaft,
which
is a
thing
foon
done,
and all's well
again.
Certainly 'tis
a
great difhonour to
God,
for
any man
to
have flight
thoughts
of
the pardon
of
fin
:
It
is
fuch a
work
as
if
ever
any
thing
put
God
to it
(as
I
may
fay)
to
pardon fin,
and
yet to
falve his
Juftice,
it
was
this
work
;
and
certainly,
if
ever
God
have love
to
thee,
thou wilt
change
thy
thoughts
about this
;
and
certainly,
the
flight
thoughts
men
have
about
this,
is
the
caufe
many times
why
they
are
held fo
tong under the
fpirit of
bondage
;
when
God
begins
to
work
upon.