4.68 VERSE 4 The Triejlhood Chriji. wafhed, but youare fotElified, but you are juftified in ebe noneof the Lord !elm, i Cora 6. i 1. Be a mannever fo liufull or uticleane, he hath not enough to pole or non- plus the mercy and righteoutheffe ofChr,ifi; hee can bring reconciliation and peaceamongfi jebulites them- felves ; though our father werean Amorite, our mother anHittite, though wee were Gentiles, efiranged from God in our thoughts, lives,hopes,ends : though we had mitified Sodome and Samariabyour abominations, yet he canmake us nighbybidlornd,he can makeour crimfin PIS as white asfnow, he can for all that eflabliAanever-, lalione covenant unto t Efily I.i$. E- zek,,16.6o--63. I was a blafphemer,aperfecutour,very injurious to the Spirit ofGrace in his-Saints, I waited, I worried, I haled into ptifon,I breathed out threatnings, Ivvas mad, & made havockeoftheChurch, I was with- in one fiepofthe unpardonable finne, nothing butigno- rance betweene that and my foule ; Howbeit for this camp I obtained mercy, that in mee firf Iejud Chrift mightfhew forth all long-fteffering,fr a?ententeto them whoAmid hereafter beleeve on him to life evertafling, faith Saint Paul, i Tim.z . i 3-16. Let us make Saint Nodsufe ofit c Pirfi, 7o love and to beleeve in Chrift, to accept as a moil faithful! and wor- thy faying,that Chrifi came tofave fiuners indefinitely, without refiriaion, without limitation ; and me,though the chiefea of all others. Though I had more fumes than earth or hell can lay upon me, yet ifI fide them as heavie weights, and if I am willing to forfake them all, let me not difhonour the powerand unfearchable riches of Chrifis blond, even for filch a finner there is mercy. Secondly,Tobreakefortb into Saint Paull acknowledge- ment; Now unto the King eternal!, immortals, and only wife God, to him that is a Kingof righteouf- neffe, and thereforebath abundance for me, that is eter- nal', and yet was borne in time for me; immortal!, yet died
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