473 1! Co»re4ttdry upon the .Gofpeb Cha . pacified David, the Prodigall, his father, nay p .18. $ Mounts voyaöe that none -fuck, as the 'Scripture defcribes him. TheveryTurks f49y at this day though remorfeleffe. to chore that bear up, y TXrt t J Ws4. O. -humiliation with much fweetnefle. Humble yourfelves under Godsgreat hand, faith St fame; of Judah rentsnot the proflrate prey. he will lift you up. The lion Verte 37. Loofed bin, andfirgave him the debt ] Every finne is a debt : and the breach o the ten Commandments fec us in debt to God ten thoufand talents. He requires no more but to acknowledge the debt, and tocome before him with a Non firm (ilvendo, tendering him his Sonne owe all -fuffici he will prefently cancell the handwriting ens Surety, and will croffe the black lines of our fins With the red linesofChriflg brood, and we shall beacquitted for ever. Verfe 28. Andhe laidbands on him, and took. him,grc,] Pad he truely apprehended the pardon of his own finnes,he would not have been fo cruel to others. Had he throughly died his thoughts in the rich merciesof God he would have (hewed more mercy to LOtt t 7. 1. men. Therefore the Apoflles (when our Saviour had bidden them forgive, though it were oft in the fame. day) Paid unto the Lord, Inereafe oarfaith. As who fhould fay, The morewe can beleeve thy love and mercy tous, thereadier ¡hall we be to do all good of- fices to men. But how rigidand cruel was David to the Ammo.. 'sites, while he lay in his fìnne, and before he had renewed his Faith. 3 Sam.12. 30 31. Verte 19. And his fellow fervent fill down] This had been fufficient tohave broken theheart ofabetter man then he was any; The moremanly andvaliant any are, the more gentle and milde to the tùbktniflîve, as was e/flexander,and Isslius Cofar: and one the contrary the more bale and cowardly, the more hard -hearted and bloody.: as Minerisu the Popes Chelmpion,who at the deflrudion of i -fernido,q in France, being intreated for a few poor fouls that had etcaped his al-devouring fword, although they had no morebut 'theirQuirts to cover their nakednefíe, he fternely anfwered, J know Alf. "4 Mou. what I have to do ; not oneofthem (brill efcape my hands, I will i sßß' find them to dwell in hell among thedevils. But wnatcarne of it? his raging fury ceafed not to proceed, till the Lord ihartly after l,tou ht him,by anhorrble direafe (;Lis guts by little and little rot. ring with in him) to the torments of death, and ter:curso: hell. Verte 30. A?;dhe would not, bat wear &-.J The trueportrai. arc
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