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Gods
mercie
fbould not
moue
vs
to defar repentance. 4 o
9
of
God,
as
the
Apoflle fpeaketh,
Ròm.2
4.5. Though
then
Rom,2
4.1.
there be
neuer
fo
many fweet promifes
in
the Gofpel,yet
they
who,continue
in
their
finnes
without
repentance
can reape
no
true comfort by them,becaufe they
are
not
made
to
them,
but
to
repentant
(inners
;
and
on the
other
fide,
though
there
be neuer
fo
many
terrible threatnings denounced
in
the
law,
yet the
penitent
finner
need
not
to
fcare
theta,
feeing
they
are
threatned
onely againli thofe who continue
in
their im-
penitencie;
though
God
be
ofinfinit
mercie,let
not the wic-
ked
man
who liueth
in his finnes
prefume, feeing it
is
fuffici
ently
declared
in
pardoning the
finnes
ofrepentant
(inners.
Neither
let him who
is
truely
penitent
defpaire becaufe
God
is
ofinfinit
iuflice,feeing
it
is
fufficiently
manifefled in
pu-
nifl-
ing the
finnes
of
thofe
who
continue
in
their vnrepen-
tancie; let not
him who
is
turned
vnto
God
from
his
wic-
ked
waies feare
Gods
iullice,.for
it
is
fullie fatisfied
in Chrif
},
and
therefore
it
(hall neuer
attach
him;
neither let him
who
continueth
in
his finnes
Without
repentance, hope
in
Gods
mercie,for
it doth not belong vnto
him;
nor
yet
in
the fweet
promifes
of
the Gofpell
,which
though
they be neuer
fo
ge-
nerall,
yet
are they
alwaies
to
be reftrained
to
the condition
ofthe
couenant
of
grace,faith, and
repentance.
And
this
is
manifefl in
the
places
before alleaged, which worldly men fó
muchabufe
to
nouri(h
in
them
carnali fecuritie; for whereas
the Lord faith, Ezech.3
3.1
i
.That
he
mill
not the
death ofa
fin
Eztcb.33.
Y
to
ner, he
addeth
iu
the
next words,
hilt
that
hee
turne
from his
way
and
liue: fo
that
the
Lord
fpeaketh
not
of
all
inners,
but
of
thole'
who
turne vnto him from
their
wicked
waies.So our,.
Sauiour
Chrifl faith, Matth.9.3r3,
that
bee
came
not
to
call
the
Mann
;.
righteow,that is,thofe who are iufl &
righteous
in
their own
conceits, but
finners
to
repentance
:
fo
that
vvhofoeuer
are cal-
led
vnto Chrifli
that
in
him
they
may haue faluation are
called alfo
to repentance. And
Mat.' i.28,
our Sauiour
doth
not
call
all
fanners
vnto him
without
difference,
but
thofe
onely
v'ho
are'
earie
and
heanie
laden,
that
is,
who
find theirs
Ganes
irkfome and grieuous
unto
them,
and
define
nothing
more
then
to
be
freed
of
this
vnfupportable
burr.
hen.
And
the
App
_Pa
allikevife ;raT
ìíi.2.4:
cloth not.
fay
fimplie
i
Tïm.a;
a
that-