ComfortablePreferuatiuesqainfír delperation. 447 15. That trhofoeuer beleeueth inhirn, f ould not perifh but haue et'ernalilife. So that as all who were flung ofthe frie ferpent were healed, ifthey lookedvpon the brafen ferpent, neither was there any exceptionor dillinion betweene thofe who were deeply,or but a littlepearfedwith the fling, for if they were flung they died, iftheyvied not the remedieordained ofGod,though their woundwere butfinal! and fhallo%v ;but ifthey lookedvp to thebrafen ferpent according toGods or dinance,theywere curedthough their wound were neuer fo deadly and defperate:fothofe who lookenot vpon Chrift Ie- fus hanging on the croffewith the eieoffaith, aremute to fall intoeuerlafting death and damnation, be their Gnnes neuer, f6few;andon the other fide, they who lay hold vponChrift andbeleeúe inhim, are fure to bee faued,though their finnes bee neuer fo many and grieuous. So in the i 6.verfe it is laid, that God fo loued theworld, that heehath giuen his onely begottenfonne, thatwhofoeucr beleeueth in him fhouldnor perifhbut haue euerlafinglife.andv.36. He thatbeleeuetlï in the fannehath euerlatling life,&c. So that here is noex- ceptionoffinnes; for thepromifes are made indefinitely to all thatbeleeue.- .Inlike manner our Sauiourhath promifed Iohn 6.37.- That whófoeuer- come veto him, hee will not call John6.37, qo. themaway. Andverf.4o,.he affurethvs that it is the willofhis father whoPent him,that euerymanwho beleeueth in himfhould haue euerlaffing life. And the Apoflle Peter, Ades, 10.43. AFt.to 43. faith,that vntoour Sauteur Chriftgiueallthe-Prophets witneff, that throughhisname,all that beleeuein himfhall haueremora offinnes. And the Apoflle John likewife faith, TJohn 2.1. r.Iohn That ifanymanfirne we hauean aduocatewith theFather refiu Chrifl the righteous,andhee is thepropitiation for ourfinnes,and notfor oursonelie butaltofor theJ;;;;;es o f the wholeworld, than -. is, for whofoeuer repent and beleeue,of euerykingdome, countrie, andnation.: So that byall thefe places -it is cleare and euidentthat noneare excludedfrom being partakers of Gods tnercifull promifes, but thofe who exclude themfclues through their infidelitie and vnrepentancic. Neither is thereany fins fo innumerable in multitude,àríd §Seel, fo:hainousandgrieuous, whichwill debarvs fromrçceini1lg the
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