The Sotolet efftEuallcalling to Chrilî. I 17 that can hinder the Lord, when flee will bellow grace andmercy in Jefus Chrift. But the world will fay,Then a man may liveas objeEi. he lift, anddoe what hewill, ifgrace be free. No, no , theLord will pull downe thy proud 2/21,0 heart, and lay thee in theduff; the Lordwill abate thee andhumble thee, before thou (halt receive any mercy fromhim; bee can as well fit thee for mercy, as be-flow it upon thee. The abundance of the riches ofGods good- neffe, that exceedeth all the baleneffe andvile- neffe of man : though thou hall finned againff heaven, and the Lord in heaven, yet there is mer- cy abovethe heaven : bee thy finnes and rebelli- ons for the nature of them, for the number of them, for the continuanceof them never fobai- nous, yet they maybee pardoned. Here the foule faith, My fins are fomany, fogreat, offuch a na- ture, what, (hall l beg mercy, and oppofe it? (hall I delire grace, and refit it ? . as thatplace clearly {hewed), Rem. 5.2 o. If : iere film abounded, grace fuperaboundd 5 bee it the Father ofmercy, and the God of all coafolation; lam. 2. 13. there the holy Gho(t faith, mercy triumphabove juftice : juf}ice cannot bee folec ere to revenge thee, as mercy is gratious todoe gooduntoThee; if thy finnes be never fomany, Gods inflict: never fo great, yet mercy is abov,all thy finnes, above all thy rebel- lions; this may lüpport the foule. So then you have the firlt ground to ftirreup hope, thy finnes are pardonable, this ispoílìb le; what thy finnes be, it skillethnot; what thy iniquitiesbe, itmat-, tereth
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