• 256 \ .All fimus pardoned to the Humble. their finnes ; and the time will come when you wiU finde it to bee fo : Wee will therefore fet the ·Lord and your confc!ences together, and you fhall fee how the Lordreafonethfor himfelfe, and how hee will make this good. . · - . Wee willfirft prove it toyoufrom all his Attributes~ ' Rea[. 1.' 1 .From his truth, tht L·ordhath faid it; asd this.is argument enough, toperfwade you: And therefore. having made this promife of forgiveneff~ in the: verfe before, th.at heewouldfo~d11e their iniqttities t~nd . c~f} their jinnes into the depths of thefia, lu~ddes,thlu Mtc~. 7 .ult wiltpcr(orme the truth to ltt;Qb 3 anathemercy to t..Abra .-. h~m, JVhich thou htt.ftJworne tmto1urfothers{rum tl;e ~ dayes of old. As if hee had faid, you may refi per-· · f w~ded of this : for he hath not onely promiled it,. but hath fworne it:> and that oath not taken lately, but ofold; there isan oath to it, and an old one, an oath that path many witneffes, t..AbraharJ:J and , ·lacob, andall the fathers that have beeBe lince :-and r will he not; thinke you,, bee as good as his woro 1 and that Afis I0.4f-3· To him giveallthePrpphets witne{ft, that threugh.hisnA-me, whofoeverbetieveth in. him, JhaUnceiveremijion ofjinn-es. It is Sairit Peters {peech toCorneli~M; [ayes Peter 3 we deliver th~s from God toyou, -and no·t only we that are the Apofl:les fay this, but to this truth doe all the Prophets, Ifty,Ieremy,andall the refl: beare witneffe. .Now .when' the Lo d hath faid fuch things, and made anabfolute-promife, h~ expecrs you f.hould believe ir. It is agreater fin then you imagine;not to lay hold upon fuch promifes. Se,ehow theLordrea- ~- l fons •
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