Allfi!Jnes pardoned t{). the HNmble. ,,., . - -- But fome may fay, if heaven gate ftand rhus wide. open, I may come and :.be wekome at any . rime. Thou vile wretch, that darell: to have fuch a c'hol!ght J Doll: thou notknow, that every fttch re. · fufaH offu~h art offer is fo dangerous,as it may put t·hee into hazard of never having the like againe ~ If the gate of heaven fl:ood thus alwayes open, ~hy tben did God fweare in his wra~hof fome 1{– r4elitts) thAt the1 jb~uldneverenter into hilrejl? and what is the reafon that God faid of thofe that were invited to the feaft, ~u't refufed toc~e, that they /biultlnever tafte.gf ttl The reafon 1s there given, it is f:lid _the mafter of t e .ea \\!.!S =u · of wrat at t ereFiiiall of fits o •er, h6thbecaufehis ove an tn ne ewas e p1 e : t , at et aman with inaignauon ' ·an 0 tlleLord: and alfo be– caufe the thing offered was of fo much price; it bemg ·e ·mg ome of heaven, ana tne recious bloud of Chrift. Thes:eforewhecfoever uch an ·offeris made and refufed, G·od is exceed~ng an_giy. :There goes an axe and a .fwor with th1s offer, tD CUI aiW11t 'every tree lbAt JJi0 1911 /Jring forth gfJod fr•it. Saynot when you·heare of this offer, I am glad there is fucba thing, I will accept of it ano– ther ·time, but it comes too foone for. me now. Confider this , that the end of the comming of the Lord It/114, ·was nor oncly to fave the foules of men; if-onely fo,then indeed this might havebeen done at any time, even at the'la!l: but his end .alfo· was, Titm z, 1 4· ThAt ht might purifte tohim{elfea . . peculiar pt1ple, ze~lomof good workes, which is a ' ' greater end than that which went before in the · T 3 verfe, /
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