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AMMOINJOIll
4o3 god(
mercyiirrsld not
moueVI
to
delay
repentance.
is
by alleaging
Gods
13lercie
manifefflie
declared vnto
vs
in
the
Tweet
promifes
of
the
Gofpell;the other by obieUing
the
example
ofthe-
conuerted theefe, who
though
hce
had
spent
his
whole
life
ih
finne
and wickednefle, yet at
the
lafl
home-
was receiued
to
mercie.
-_
ech
s
;.
For the firfl,hath not the Lord
(will
they
fay)
protefled
in
32.and
;
;,
i
I.
his
word, that
he
defireth
not
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 came
not to
call
the righteous, but
(inners
to
re
pentance
?
and
Both hce
not
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...
Gods
will
is,
that
all
men
ß
ould
befamed,
and
come to
the
know-
le,ke-o
f
his
truth
?
Seeing therefore
God
is
fo
merciful,
why
fhould
we
doubt ofour
faluation
?
Why
fhould
wee feare
to
deferre
our repentance,and follow
our
pleafures
and
delights
for
a
time,feeing
the
Lord
will
receiue
vs
to
mercie
whenfo-
euerwe.turne
vnto
him?
~d`be
firli
let
I
anfwer
fiefl,
thatthough
all
this
were
certaine,true, and
:7,4reloomed.
not
to-
bee-
doubted
of
yet
it
is
a
moll
vnthankfull
part.
and
horrible
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
I
anfwere,that
as
God
hath (hewed his
mercy
in the gratious promifes
of
the
Gofpell,
fo
alfo he
hath
as
plainelie declared
his iuftice
in the
feuere
threatnings
of
the
law,
and
he
is
as
true
in
the
one,as
in the
other. And therefore
all
the queftion
is,who
Thal
tall ofhis
mercy,and
whoofhis
iuftice,feeing
that
is
pro.-
mifed
to
tome, and this
threatned
againf
others; or
rather in
truth
it
is
without
all
queflion, for the
Lord
bath
plainelie.
Hewed
in his
word
that
bee will
extend
his mercy
to
all re--.
pentant
finners
and
to
them onely, and
that
he
will
declare
his iuftice
in
powringout
his
iuf+
iudgements vpon
-the
wic-
ked who
line in
their
tannes,
and
efpecially
vpon thofe who
take
occataon
ofGods
mercie,to continue in
their
vnrepen-
--
tancie,defpif
ng
ÿ
riches
ofhis
bountifuines,his
patience and
long
fuffering;foihereby they
.heape
vnto
themfelues wrath',
,agaitrfl
the
dayoflrrstth,and
the declaration
of
the
itsll judgement
:
or