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Dan.gat.
9.
».Sect. S.
That
the
grie-
uok(aeffe
of
finne cannot
debarre the
repentant
fm-
ner of
Gods
mare.
;
7-0$t4.
7.4
.
Ram.ç.ia.
That
wem ill
nap
aggra
hate
our
fiat
that
wedero-
gate front
Gods
434
Ccm
sortable
prefirtsatiuesagaint
deiperatiors,
,
O
Lordfor,tue,
O
Lord
confrderand
doe
it; deferrenot
for
thine
o
vne
fake.
Ìßán
.9.
8.
r
9.:.
But here
Satan.
will
be readie to
obieCt
vnto
the
ali&ted
confcience,
labouring
vndcr the
burthen offinne, that
God
indeede
is
merciful',
but
yet he will
newer
extend his mercy
towards
fuch
haynous
offenders,
whole
finncs
are in
num-
ber
nuwberlefle, and
in qualitie.
and nature molt
grieùous
and
outragious,Foranfwerirg. ofwhich
tentation,
wee
are
to
-know
that
though
out-times
bee neuer
fo
innumerable
and hainous,
yet-this
fhould not difiourage
vs
froni corn-
ming to
God
by
vnfained.repentance,
with-
allured hope
offorgiueneffe; for
though
our
firmes
be
great,
his mercies
are
infinite,and
confequently
though
it
wereimagined that
all
the
finnes
whichwereeucr committed
in
the world
were
ioyncd
together,
yet
in
comparifon
ofGods
mercy
they
are
without
all
comparifon
leffe
then
a
mote
in:the Sunne
to
all
the world. Neither
is
God
like
unto man,whofe bounty
and
mercy
are'
limited
in fome
firaight bounds
which they will
not
paffe,
and therefore they
are
Toone
weary
both
in
giuing
to
thofe who
want,
and forgiuing
thofe
that
offend;
but
his
bountieis
endiefíe and
his mercies infinite,
and
therefore
he
can
and wil
as
eafilie
forgiue
vs
the
debt
often
tho.ufand
mil
-
lions
ofpounds,
as
one
peunie,
and.affoone
pardon the
finns
ofa:
wicked Afana4s,as
ofa righteous
Abraham,
if
we
come
vnto
him
bÿ-vitfaiñed
repentance, and
earneftly delire
and
implore
his
grace and mercy. And this
our
Sauiour
Chrifl
fheweth
in
the
parable
of
the
pore
Publican,whofe hainous
limes
the Lord
prefentlÿ forgaue vpon his true conuerlion,.
And
in
the parable
of
the
two
debters, where
the lender, our
bountifull
God,
as eatily
forgaue
the
5
oo.pence
as
the fiftie,
that
is,innumerable
great
fins, afwell
as
few and
lefle:.
And
the Apoftle Pafil teacheth
vs, that.where
fnne
bath
abounded,
there
grace bath
r3duch
more
abounded.Rom,
5.2o.
Seeing therefore
Gods
mercy
is
infinite and
without
al
li-
mits,
let not
vs
reftraine
it,
neither let
vs
fo
.
aggrauate
our
firms
as
that
in
the
meane
time wee
derogate
from Gods
mercy.
If
a
Prince
fliòuld
fend his
generali
pardon
vnto
a
nurnberofoffenders, without any
exception
orlimitation,
and.