AMMOINJOIll 4o3 god( mercyiirrsld not moueVI todelay repentance. is by alleaging Gods 13lercie manifefflie declared vnto vs in theTweet promifes ofthe Gofpell;the other by obieUing the exampleofthe-conuerted theefe, who though hcehad spent his whole life ih finne and wickednefle, yet at the lafl home- was receiued tomercie. -_ echs ;. For the firfl,hath not the Lord (will they fay) protefled in 32.and ; ;, i I. his word, that hedefirethnot the death of a fanner, but that Matth.9.1;. he:turne from his way andliue? bath not our Sauiour told Muth.u..sL-_, vs, that he camenot to call the righteous, but (inners to re pentance ? and Both hcenot inuite fuch vnto him as labour under the heauieburthen offinne, promifing thathee will cafe them ? And bath not the- Apofile-. Paul taught vs, that .1,Tim.2,.4... Godswill is, that allmen ßouldbefamed, andcome to theknow- le,ke-ofhis truth ? Seeing therefore God is fo merciful, why fhouldwedoubt ofour faluation ? Why fhouldwee feare to deferreour repentance,and followour pleafures anddelights for a time,feeing the Lordwill receiuevs tomercie whenfo- euerwe.turne vnto him? ~d`befirli let I anfwerfiefl, thatthough all thiswere certaine,true, and :7,4reloomed. not to- bee- doubted of yet it is a moll vnthankfull part. andhorrible ingratitude againfc our gracious God and lo- uing father to takeoccafion of his mercie, the more to of- fend him,as before I haue fhewed. Secondlie Ianfwere,that as Godhath (hewed his mercy in the gratious promifes of the Gofpell, fo alfo hehath as plainelie declared his iuftice in the feuere threatnings ofthe law, andhe is as true in the one,as in the other. And therefore all the queftion is,who Thal tall ofhismercy,andwhoofhis iuftice,feeing that is pro.- mifed to tome, and this threatned againfothers; or rather in truth it is without all queflion, for the Lord bath plainelie. Hewed in hisword that bee will extend his mercy to all re--. pentantfinners andto them onely, and that he will declare his iuftice in powringout his iuf+ iudgements vpon-the wic- ked who line in their tannes, and efpeciallyvpon thofe who take occataonofGods mercie,to continue in theirvnrepen- -- tancie,defpifngÿ riches ofhisbountifuines,hispatience and long fuffering;foihereby they .heape vnto themfelues wrath', ,agaitrfl thedayoflrrstth,and the declaration ofthe itsll judgement : or
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