Of turning from our e11ill wayes. I This is themaine point you may obferve by the way, that the Gofpell was as fully preached to the Iewes,as to us. So yo11 fee it was here,t.hey hadrhe Jame way of being faved, th~t we have> as gtear mercy promifedand difpeofed. Onely rhefe great myll:eries of the Gofpell wherein g_ra~e and me.rcy is difplayed,were not opened fo to rhemas.umo. u~ s they had the pr.omifes of.forgivene1fe as fully and 'clearely, . btu knew. not theg~ounds of them.; as 'Chrill:s incarnation, death, and ref.ur-reCl:ion,-as we,e :do; nor thofe glorious priviledgesin particularwch -·wee have by Ch_rill: o' For the proofe of the m~ine -;point, tak~ that one place tomake it good eoyou, Efoy x• .18~ Com'(now, t~nd let tU rettfon tDgether, foith , · ·the Lo.R D : tho11gh your ft~nes he MfcAr!tl, they jluJO · bet white llffoiW ; though they !Jeered 41 crimfqp~ the7 . 'jqAO,, hte M woo/1.. The Prophet had exhorted them ,,. to·.learne tq,doe weU, 6.:~· B:ut the! peoplemight ob. jed: .: What ihall wee be the nearer for all this 't · if wee he fuch g:reat linners as you-.haveevennow de- .d4red us to bee ~ ~ to prevent this theProphet tells ~ them, .what thoHgh their.finnes be great and.blou. pje fins,of.;the de~p~ft dye ofguile ?{there are'many kindsofred,butcrimfonandJcarletarethe,highefi) yet you ili:all be as perfeetly cleanfed from all your linnes as if you thould fee fcarlet mrned as whire as fnow, or. crimfon as.white as wooll, and none of · ~he former dy remaining : and when he tells this to them, marke hisexp~etfron, ,come, ltt mrtafon tlgt– ,htr, as ifhe had faid, this is a point requir~ fi:rong teafonings .to p~rfwade.you to believe it 3 and.in– d~dit is a hard thing truly to beleeve the pardon of their I
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