the grDjfefl Sel•f!1Nrder.; 109 verteth a people- to be willing~· Why! becaufe thewill did refill: him·; nay God had hisNete• ~w~ felf t? refill: him, ang~r fieps in his way to refifi h1m, ·convert h1m not: Lord, his wilfulnel(e bath anger:rd thee; Jufiice freps in to .refift himi fave him not Lord, his fins · -have di1bonoured thee. . Nay-he had his mercy tQ refi£1: him:Mercy fieps in , Lord he bath abufed me, fave him not. Indeed had afin... ner, yielded as foon as he finned , mercie would not refifi him; but mercie ·:had been , .dealing with"him ' ' andbeabufed. all mercie.. And therefore he had mercie to refifi , nay and wifedomeone would think to refift too , what awilfull fool?pitty him-notLord. There is no reafon he fuould be pittie~, if he will perifh let him perifh ~ .I fay in the converfioit . of a finner ,as there w,as nothing to affifi him, fo there was all to refifl:.The will does refift him,nay ·God hadhimfelf as I may fo fpeak torefifi him,yea,and mercy to re6ft him;it was not fo in the creation of Heaven and Earth. --·The creature had never provok~dGod not to -· create it: but the finner bath provoked God never to convert him, fo that now God rnuft have power over himfelf if he me~n to divert him.oh then what infinite rea{onhafl thou to be humbled?thou refifiefi God, as Stephell told theJewes; you have alwtties rejifted the Holy Ghoft ,Act.i7.5 I . fo thou haft refiftedGodsfpi– rit; yea,.thy will does refift him ' and that is– lhe firongeefi thing to refift in thew~rld~ , His word comes to convert thee~and thou doft re– P.~ ~i~ motions , his mercies, his corrediobn?, u • . ~
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