675 / 772
rh.it
finnes
of
ky,ol%ledgeare
pardonable.
649
of
a
ílubborne
\'vilfulneffe,
either through
the
negied
of
Gods
itiaice and judgements,
or
through
the
abufe
of
his
mercy
and benefits.
In the
firfl
refpccct
they offend,who
ha-
uing
diners times themfelues finned, and
yet
cfcaped
pu-
nifhinent, or hauing
feene
others
in
the
like
cafe,
doe
take
occa
ion
hereby
to
finne
againe,
hoping
to
cfcape
as
in
for-
mer times
:
and
of
fuck
the Wife
man
fpeakëth,Ecclef..8.i
i.
Eecaule
rntence
air
inf
as
euilt Yorke
is
not
execátted
fieedtlte,
therefore
the
heart of
the children
of
men
is
{.rllie
fret
in
them
to
doe
mill.
Iñ
the
other
refpe6t,
Erich
offend
as
take
occafion
upon
Gods merde
and long
fuffering
to
fall
into
finne,
pre
-
fuming before they
commit
it, that
God
vpon
their
repen-
tance will
in his
infinit
mercie
forgiue them
:
and thus
they
abufe
Gods
mercy
and goodneffe
which fhould
leade
them
to
repentance,
as
an
argument to
make
them
more
defpe=
ratelie
to
runne
into
all vvickedneffe.
So
that
to
finne
pre
-
futnptuoufly,is
not to
finne
vpon
knowledge,
and
againíl
a
mans confcience onely,vnlefle
there be ioynnd
therewith
a
prefumptuous hope
to
efcape
punifhment,
or that
notwith-
¡landing the
finne
comtnitted,he
¡hall receiue
pardon
in
re-
fpe&
of
Gods
infinite mercie.
Now
many
of
Gods
children.
may
fall
again¡l their knowledge and
confcience,
and
yet
not
prefume
either to
efcape
Gods
iudgements;or to
be
par-
takers
of
his
merde,
as
nainelie
thole who
are
carried
head-
long
into
a
finne
without
any time
ofdeliberation through
the
violence
of
their corruptions, or
ouercome by
feare
of
fome
prefent
danger,or
fome
other
vnruly pafíion.
But here the tempter will obiecf,that
though
thefe
finnes
againtl
knowledge
and confcienée bee
not
prefumptuous,
yet
they
are
vnpardonable,
Peeing
the committers
of
them
haue
no part
in
Chrifls
facrifice3
and confequently
can
hope
for no
mercie at
Gods
hands-:
and
this he will
indeuour
to
proue
by thatfayitig
of
the
Apoílle,
Heb.i
0.26.
For
if
n'e
finne
rnillingly
after that
file
h
ate
receiged
the
k,
o`
iledte
of
the
traith
,thereremaineth,o
more
fa:criface
forlinnes,ht4t
a fearefoll
locking
for
ofiudzement,&c.
For the
anfinBring
whereofiwee
are
to know, that the
Apoffle in his
doìrine
is
not
c®ntrarie
taour.
Sauicur
Chrill
:
but
hee
bath
taught
vs,that
not
only
tones
Ecdef.8.t
t.
.
t.
Secio4
That
finnes wf
knovv'edge
are
pardo
nable.