475 / 772
Comfortable
Preferuatiues
qainfír
delperation.
447
15.
That
trhofoeuer beleeueth
in
hirn,
f
ould
not perifh
but
haue
et'ernalilife. So
that
as
all
who
were flung
of
the
frie
ferpent
were healed,
ifthey
looked
vpon
the brafen ferpent,
neither
was there any exception
or
dillinion
betweene
thofe
who
were deeply,or
but
a
little
pearfed
with
the fling,
for
if
they
were flung they
died,
ifthey
vied
not
the remedie
ordained
ofGod,though
their wound
were
but
final!
and fhallo
%v
;but
ifthey
looked
vp
to the
brafen ferpent according
toGods or
dinance,they
were cured
though
their wound
were
neuer
fo
deadly and
defperate:fo
thofe who looke
not
vpon
Chrift
Ie-
fus
hanging
on the
croffe
with
the
eie
offaith,
are
mute
to
fall
into
euerlafting death and damnation, be
their
Gnnes
neuer,
f6few;and
on
the
other
fide,
they
who
lay
hold
vpon
Chrift
and
beleeúe in
him,
are fure
to
bee
faued,though their
finnes
bee
neuer
fo
many and
grieuous.
So in
the
i
6.verfe it
is
laid,
that God
fo
loued the
world, that
hee
hath giuen
his
onely
begotten
fonne,
that
whofoeucr beleeueth
in
him
fhould
nor
perifh
but
haue
euerlafinglife.andv.36.
He
thatbeleeuetlï
in the fanne
hath euerlatling
life,
&c. So
that
here
is
no
ex-
ception
of
finnes; for
the
promifes
are
made indefinitely
to
all
thatbeleeue.- .Inlike manner
our
Sauiourhath
promifed
Iohn
6.37.-
That
whófoeuer- come
veto
him,
hee
will
not
call
John
6.3
7,
qo.
them
away.
And
verf.4o,.he affureth
vs
that it
is the
will
of
his
father
who
Pent
him,that
euery
man
who
beleeueth
in
him
fhould
haue
euerlaffing life.
And the
Apoflle Peter,
Ades,
10.43.
AFt.to 43.
faith,that vnto
our
Sauteur
Chrift
giueall
the
-Prophets
witneff
,
that
through
his
name,all
that
beleeuein him
fhall haue
remora
of
finnes.
And the
Apoflle
John
likewife
faith,
TJohn
2.1.
r.Iohn
That
if
any
man
firne
we
haue
an
aduocatewith the
Father refiu
Chrifl the righteous,
and
hee
is the
propitiation for ourfinnes,and
not
for
ours
onelie
but
alto
for
the
J;;;;;
es
o
f
the
whole
world,
than
-.
is, for whofoeuer repent and
beleeue,of
euery
kingdome,
countrie,
and
nation.:
So
that by
all
thefe
places
-it
is
cleare
and euident
that
none
are excluded
from being
partakers
of
Gods
tnercifull
promifes,
but
thofe
who
exclude themfclues
through
their
infidelitie and
vnrepentancic.
Neither
is
there
any
fins fo
innumerable in
multitude,
àríd
§Seel,
fo:hainous
and
grieuous, whichwill debar
vs
from
rçceini1lg
the