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Comfortable
Preferttatiues
aping
defperatìon.
445
profeffeth
that
hee
will
fpare
his
people
and
children,
,.s
a
man
fpáceth
his
owne
fonne
that
(erMeth
him.
Now
we
know that
a
loving
father
is
ready
to
forgiue,
&
to
receiue
into
his grace
and
fauour his
repentant
forme,
though
hee
hath
very
often
offended
him
:
and
fo
finely
the Lord,who
is
infinitly rich
in
mercy,will much more
forgiue
his
children
when they turne
vnto
him
;
nay,he
is
not
onlie readie to
receiue
them
into
his
grace and
fauour,
but it
filleth him
(as
I
may
fay)
with
ex-
ceeding ioy and
delight,
when
his repentant
children for
-
fake
their
finnes
and
euill
waies, and turne vnto him by
vn-
fained repentance,
as
it
appeareth
moll euidently
in
the pa-
rable-ofthe prodigall fonne,
of
the
flrayed fheepe,
and
the
loll groat. Moreouer,our
Sauiour
Chrift
had
his
naine lefus
giuen him
ofGod
by
the
mini(lerie
ofan
Angel,becaufe hee
faueth his people from
their
fins
:
as
appeareth,Mat.1.2
i
.and
Match.
z;xt.
he therfore
came
into the world,not
to
cal
the
righteous,but
inners
to
repentance.
As
it
is
Matth.9.13.
and hee
inuiteth
;*latth.9.
t;.
and calleth
vnto him
all
thofe
who
are
wearie and heauie
and
c
418.
laden
with
the
burthen
of
their
finnes,
promifing
that
hee
will
cafe
them,Mat.i
1.28.
yea
fo
certaine
it
is
that
they
Thal
haue remiflîon
of
their
finnes
and euerlafting happineffe
who
truly repent
and
beleeue,
that
our
Sauiour
Chritl
faith
they haue
it
alreadie,
as
though
they
were in
prefent
poffef-
fioñ,
Iohn
5.24.
T
rily,
verily,t
fay
vnto
you,
hee
that
heareth I°hn
5.24.
my
word,
and
him
bath
that
me,
enre,
and
6.47,
y
b
life,
andfhallnot
come
into
condemnation,
but bathpaled
from
death
and
c
i.x6.
to life.
Sochap.6.47.
and
chap.i1.26.
whofoeuerliuethand
beleeueth in
meefhallneuer
die.
The
Apofile
Peter
alfò
plainlie
aífirmeth,that
cod
would
bane
no
man
to perifh,
but
would
haue
admen
to
come
to
repentance.
Seeing therefore the.
Lord
hath
made
fo
many
gratious
promifes in
the Gofpell
to
all
repen-
tant andbeleeuing
(inners,
let
vs
vnfainedly turne
vino the
Lord,
and
apply
Chrift
and
his
merits
vnto
vs
by
a
true and
liuely
faith,
and
then
we may
affure
our
felues
that
hee will
pardon
and
forgiue
vs
all
our
fumes,
and
receiue
vs
gratiouf
lie
into
his loue and
fauour.
But
againll
this which
hath been alleaged,
Satan
will bee
4.Sea,
j
.
radio
to
obiea
to
the
of
lictted
confcience,
that
thefe
promi-
tes