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CotisfortablePreferuatiues againfi
dd
eration.
¡lies
mercy,but
hee
faith, that
hee
is
flow
to
anger.
Signi
f
ing
by
this
manner
o
f
f
eech,
that
he
is
of
his
o
iwne
nature
alvaies
moll
readie
to
_thew
mercy,
togrant
pardon,
to bebenefrciall;but
not
f
readie
to
takepunifhment,
but forced
hereunto
(as
of
himfelfe
vnlblrg)
through our
rmpenitencie.Hereunto
alfo
appertaineth
that
ancient
forme
o
fprayer;
O
Lord
whole
propertie is
alwaies
tohaue
mercie
and
fargiare.
Here
-hence alfo
we
reade in
Efay
6.2.8.2i.
28.21.
The
Lord(hall(land
as
in
mount
Terazim,hee'hall
bee
Sam.i.
angrie,as
in
the
valley Gibeon.
That
hee may doe
his
worke,
his
Cbro.t4.
Ali.
to.
_grange
worke,
that
he may
e.t.a
his
aE1,his
ft
range
al=t,
(that
is,
he(hallrnflid the
like
pun
:Jhments
in his
fug
anger
vpon
bis
re-
bell+cuu
people,
which hee
exercifed
vpon his
wicked enemies
the
Philifines
inmount
Perazim,
when
as
hee ,ouerthrew
them,
.by
his
feruant
Dauid,&
vpon
the
Amorites
in
the
val1ey4
Gibeon,
when
as
he
f
note themwithJlones
from
heauen.)Where the
Pro-
phet maketh
a
twofold
kind
of
q
ods
worke_s,his
proper
and
f
range
n?orkr.
Theproper
worke
o
f
God is to
fhew mercy,
and
to
(pare
or
fprgifse;his grange
works is to
bee
aiwie,
and
to punif1.
.e4nd
therefore
whereas
bee
calleth
that
theproper
worke
of
God,
and
this
his
flrangeworke;
be
plainly
teacheth
that
mercy, goodnes
and
long
fuf
ering,are
according to
the
nature
ofthe
defty,but
that
to
be
angrie
is
dicers from
Gods
nature.
Tea
which
is
mores
bee
maketh
it
not his
work,
that
is
to
fay,he is
angrie,that afterwards
be
may
bring
his worke
to
pap,
that
is,
that
he may
haue
mercie
and
preferue
;
for
whileft
(faith
the
Apofle)
wee
are
fudged
of
the Lord,
we
are
chaflened,that
we
fhould
not
be condemned
with
!.Cor.
11.3
s. the
world,
i
.Cor. i
I.3
2.
end
what
doe thefe
things
teach
vs,
_
but
that
the
nature
of
God
is
nothing
elfe
then
goodneff
,
slsercie,
lone,
of
eítzialiy
ofmen,
patience, benignitie,
and
moll
farce
and
remote from all vniufl
fueritie,
crueltie, tyrannre,andpride
?The
which
may tninifter
vnto
euery
penitent
finner
moll
fweete
confolation;
for
when they
fee
that God
is
angry, by
reafon
oftheir
fins,and that-hee
doth
grieuoufly
affli6t
them,and
e-
uen°bring
them
as
it
were,
to
the gates
ofhell,
this mull
not
make
them to
call offal
hope,&
to
fag
into vtter
defperation;
but
they mull remember,
that
thefe are
not theLords
proper
works,but
firange.vnto
him, which
he
doth
to
this
en
d,that
he
may
bring
to
paffe.
bis
owne proper
-works
which.
are a-
greeabJe