370 A Commentaryopon theGo(ßel Chap .12. mountainsas well as mole- hills. The graceof our Lordabotendi ÿ2rfgeiar7,stivaaÉ to apwiugover, faith S. Paul. The blood ofJefus Chrift cleanfeth US from all fir, faith S. john. Ego admifi, unde its dannare pores: Joh 1,7. one, fednon amififli sonde tofalvare pores me, faith S. eAuguiline,, And yet Nevatua the proudHeretick,denyed poffibility ofpardon to them, that had any whit fallen otf in times of perfccution, though they rofe again by repentance. But Gods thoughts of mercy are not as mans, Ifa.55.8, he can and will pardon fuch fins, as no God or man can doe betides, cillicah 7.18. who is a , godlike unto thee ? For what ? That pardaneth allfarts ofins &c. This none can believe withoet fupernaturall grace ; We are ready tomeafure God byour modell. But the blailhemy againfi the holy (hot, &e.] This is nothing; fmaratæas de elfe, faith Jahn `Diazius, to that Butch,r his brother, qn a,n agni.; mtorreeLerit az. tam veritatem figgitiofe in feçlari, a malicious perfecutiogof the known truth. A tin it is ofmalice after ftrong convii tton, ex Fell in words by a tongue fit on fire by hell,. and in anions corm- wing from a venemous fpirir, and tending to oppofition, and aromar ten- bitter perfccution, iftheir malicebe not greater then their pow - ffffur eft inter, er., This was committed by Saul, Iulian, Latomusof Lovaine, ,errendor ma Rockwooda chiefp;rfecutouratCallicein Henry 8. daies, who, to giros, fe contra his laft breath, (taring and raging, cryed he was utterly damned, con/bientiwn forthat he had fought malicioutly the deaths of a number of the adverforumefe honefteft men in the town, &e. Steven Gardiner Paid as much al Melarirarc- nQh. fq inetRa ofhimf,lf , when he la y on his death-bed, and fo both, Chronic, tag. g.. ftinkitagly and unrepentantly died, faith. Fox. At!. and Man- Verfe 3z . eilnd rohofaever f :akreth awerd, &c.] As `Peter did JA15°S. through infirmity, `Patd through ignorance: thnf poor fouls whom he haled toprifon, and f'r fear ofdeath, cotnpzlled them to blafpheme Chrift, 4El.z6.1 r. Tertullirn reports the like of Claudius IHerminiantoa Perfecuter in Cappadoci4,qu;Jd toronentis in.rib.:ad Scapa gsoofdam apropafito /uo exciderefecerat, that for fpite that his own . p"e"e wife was turned Chriflían, heforced many, bytorm nting them, me,ûeosa to reneagueChritt.Ptin writes alto toTraian the Etr,perour *hat latent: 2?' f.no Î' ,,: gfni tux, tkure where he was Governour,there came to his hands a book, cone Qc vino fuppii, taming thenames ofmany, that for fearof.death, pcof<Gcd them went, pt a e- felves:to be noChriftians. Andwhen, faith he, they had at my sea mated<serër command, called upon the gods, offered incenfe to the Eompe V > M. roursImage, and curled Chrift (which thole that are Chrif}ians Alin, C ad g 9 Taaisn. indeed, will never be drawn to doe I thought good to dif- miffe them. 3141.
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