All finnes pardoned to the Hu,r.nble. ----- -------~--~~--~----------------~ ' - ~would pardon no more, then an eanhlyf.Ither; bu~ · on rhecomrary, if youthat .areearrhlyf.nherscJn doe fo much, I that am a11 infiniteLordGo4and 110t man, can doe much more, · who is Omn.i porem and ' can doe'whatfoever hee wi:l, and thews his omn i- ' potency-in pardoning. I compare.wid1 rhis, · E{ay 55 .9. c.Jl{y th1ughts are mt ~ ytmr thot~ghts. What though your fi rmes bee great and in their owne · thmighcs unpardonable,and you thinke them grea- · re~ rhcn c~1n bee forgiven r: bm my thottgbts Iayes Go o~ llre not ~Uyour thonghts ;bee fpeakesrhi s of . . pardoning j but 45 the heavens are hightr_ 'th•n the earth, fo are my thoughu -abDve JOUr thoNghts, 4ni my ways Aboveyours ,inmtllrip!ying to p4rdon. Though you could not forgive, nay though ·you cannot th!nkeor imagine how fuchtr~nfgreffions fh_ould be forgiven, yer I canforgive~hen1. .· ., A f~cond fort of arguments is taken from the · meanes and inll:rument by which f6rgiveneffe is I conveyed. Wee .tre come to I E s u s the c.J«edi. ator 0{the neav C~VtrJtt·rJ~ ~A»4 tO ti:Je /.Jlo11d of fPrinfr_ ling, which'(pe~keJ betttr things thm the b/()udof vd– het. Hebrewts u. ~4· Hee fpeakes this as an encoLJragement to their faith,. and ir i~ as if hee /{ had faid'- confider how the bloJid of Abel, though . . but thebl.oudofa pooreman> crye-d fo loud rhat it · ' came up to he~ven,that it brought down vengeance- . u.pon Caiw, how loud then fhall C H !t 1 s T sbloud fpeake r: What is it able to procure for us ( which 1 fpeake~· better things, that is, for mercy...(which . Go o 1S more ready to heare the cry for, rhen for vengeance) and this cry is not ofthe bloud ofanor– . . - dinary - ---~------~-----------------------------T~ . i .
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