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Comfortable
preferuortitter
erga/n
ele
s
eration.
449
baue perfecuted the
knowne
truth.
So
that
if
it
were pofli-
ble
for
them
to
repent and beleeue,
it
were
poffible alto
that
they
lhould
be
famed.
Seeing therefore the
promifes
ofthe
Gofpell
are
generall
excluding
none,let not
any
man
who
is
laden
with
the
bur
-
then
ofhis fnnes,
excludehimfelfe.
through
his
want
of
re-
pentance and infidelitie,for
though
their
other
finnes
are
grieuous, yet this
is
more hainous and damnable
then
all
the
refl.
For
whereas
the Lord faith,that
he will extend his mer-
eie
vnto
all
who
come
vnto
him;
if
wee
reply,No
he
will
not
extend
it
vnto
me,becaufe
I
am
a
grieuous finner,what
do
we
elfe
but
contradi& the
Lord,and
giuc
truth
it
felfethe
lie;
not
giuing credit
to
his
word and promifes? And therefore
let
vs
take heede
that
wee
doe
not
fo
aggrauate
our fnnes
as
that
in the meane
time
wee
extenuate
and derogate
from
Cods
infallible
truth.
CHAP.
XXXV.
()fa
her
arguments
dr.
awne
fam
the
perlons
to
the
Trinrtie
Nd
thefe
are
the'
arguments which
are
drawne
from the nature
ofGod,
whereby
we
may
bee
affured
of
the
remiflion
of
our
finites.
There
may alto
other arguments
bee drawne from
euerie perfon
of
the Trinitie.
Firít,God
the
Father
path
created
vs
ofnothing,euen
according
to
his
own
image,
and
vhen
wee
had
defaced this his
image
in
vs, and
made our
felues
flaues
to
Satan,
he
fo
tenderly
loued
vs
his
poore
miferable
creatures,that
he fpared
not
his dearely
be-
loued and only
begotten
Sonne,hut
fent
him into the world
to
take
our nature vpon
hi,n,.that
therein he mi
oht
Puffer
all
miferie and
affíiaion,attd
lafllie
the curled
and
bitter
death
ofthe
croffe,
that
fo
he might
fatisfie his
iuítice' for
our
fi
tines
and
perte
&.the
worke cifour
:redemption.And
this
the
Euan_
geli1
witnefheth,Iohn
3.16.M
which
loue the
Lord
fhewed
vnto
vs,euen for his
ovine
nanxes
fake, when
we
neither de-
G
g
Eruei$.,
l.Secî.
Y
o
Realms
dravsne
frorni
the
(t perJant,
God the
fa-
then,
[ohn