.canfi commit: for thou muft know this, that when the Lord lefus Chrift iliall become a fuitor to ··thee, for thee then to ref1:1fe, thou provokdl: him ;to anger.Idare fay,it'go@s bcyondallthe fins thou .haft committed; for know this, he is not a bare fuitor, but a fuitor that bath paid dcare for his .wife; hee bath purchafed thee at a dean:: price, , ..with the Oleading ofhis owne bloud: fo that if thouwiltnotheare his fuit, bee lofeth not onely his labour in fuing, but the price that he paid for ·thee, for the very bloud of Iefus Chrift lhall bee :put upon thy fcore. To have the Lord as fuiag to , thee thus defpifed, you knowRom. 2,4, 6. DifPi– ftng the patience of God, treafureJ up wrath againft the . dayofwrath. Now defp~ftng kindneffe .is greater, . And the contempt of 1t, doth more mcenfe the Lord to anger. Now therefore when· the Lord lhall be a fuitorto us,one would thinke we lhould rathet befuitors to him :but when he !hall conde– fcend t0 he fuitors to us,and be refufed,think·what ,aprovocatian it is)I wil give youbut one infiance, :thatyoumayknowwhat it is to refufe this fuit~' . The I~wes when Chrift came in the flefh, it is .· faid, he came to hisotJ~ne, hemadeofferofhimfelfe, · ,. _ ,.. hut his owne receivedhimnot, hu~ refufed him, they .would none ofhim. Iehn 1. he came to his on~ne, hut his.owne received him n~t, you fee how Chrifi tooke :th1s at their hand,you (ee,for thiJ the wtt~th of God i1 comeupm them to the utmoH.Compare now all the 'fins ofthe lewes,and al the puni(hments that were upon.them before this time, they were nothing to thts. - . . . Cc , For • ...
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