¶
The
Consolation
of
the
Soule
,
being
an
assurance
of
the
remission
of
sinnes
,
with
the
most
notable
promises
of
GOD
conteyned
in
the
holy
Scripture
,
as
well
in
the
old
,
as
new
Testament
,
briefly
expounded
,
and
applied
vnto
the
same
.
IF
hee
to
whome
the
forgiuenes
of
sinne
is
giuen
,
&
from
whome
sinne
is
put
away
,
bee
happie
,
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
xxxij
.
Psalme
:
Happie
is
the
man
to
whom
God
imputeth
no
sinne
.
He
needeth
not
to
doubt
,
but
on
the
contrary
parte
he
is
vnhappie
,
which
is
tyed
and
bound
in
sinne
,
he
must
looke
for
none
other
thing
but
for
his
condemnation
,
and
ruyne
onely
.
Be
it
for
a
time
he
liues
in
ease
,
&
takes
his
pleasure
,
and
altogether
giues
himselfe
to
delight
:
though
he
be
increased
with
honor
,
and
euery
bodie
doe
loue
and
cheare
him
:
yet
he
is
neuerthelesse
vnhappie
,
if
he
be
not
set
at
libertie
by
grace
,
and
forgiuenesse
of
his
iniquities
:
for
sinne
is
a
burthen
so
hard
,
&
heauie
,
that
no
man
is
able
to
beare
it
,
pulling
downe
euery
one
that
is
laden
with
it
:
from
whence
it
appeareth
,
that
some
do
bowe
vnder
it
,
and
falles
into
ruine
,
and
brings
them selues
into
dispayre
:
as
it
happened
to
Iudas
.
Other
being
oppressed
in
such
sort
,
that
they
cannot
scant
receiue
any
comfort
and
rest
.
I
haue
seene
a
man
,
which
hauing
committed
,
as
himselfe
doth
confesse
,
some
great
and
notorious
faults
,
was
so
abated
&
troubled
in
his
spirite
by
the
memorie
of
them
,
that
he
did
resemble
a
poore
man
,
which
was
indepted
,
and
condemned
to
a
greeuous
sufferance
and
shamefull
death
,
he
did
alwaies
grone
and
sigh
with
the
trouble
and
paine
of
his
Soule
,
feeling
himselfe
so
guiltie
,
and
doubting
of
the
mercies
of
God
,
for
the
inormitie
of
his
sinnes
:
in
such
sort
,
that
he
made
not
any
account
to
eate
any
meate
,
and
refused
to
take
any
nourishment
if
hee
had
not
beene
carefully
mooued
thereunto
by
those
which
did
keepe
him
companie
:
his
heart
being
so
oppressed
with
dolor
,
that
sometimes
he
wished
that
his
bodie
might
bee
punished
with
Iustice
,
and
that
hee
might
suffer
some
greeuous
paine
to
make
his
torment
lesse
:
which
hee
thought
,
hee
had
deserued
in
his
soule
:
Sometimes
in
his
anguish
,
he
did
require
to
bee
comforted
,
and
receiued
into
the
Church
by
publicke
pennance
,
but
he
was
a
straunger
,
and
did
but
passe
away
.
I
haue
seene
an
other
,
which
hauing
a
long
time
abused
the
true
knowledge
of
God
:
yet
at
the
last
had
such
remorse
of
conscience
,
which
did
gnawe
his
heart
so
,
that
he
was
constrayned
to
lye
as
sicke
,
and
out
of
breath
.
See
therefore
how
horrible
&
heauie
sinne
is
of
it selfe
,
from
which
whosoeuer
is
lightned
,
though
he
bee
neuer
so
poore
,
miserable
,
and
dispised
of
the
world
,
or
otherwise
afflicted
,
he
is
neuerthelesse
an
happie
man
.
The
blinde
man
of
this
world
doth
not
esteeme
nor
iudge
of
these
things
otherwise
then
by
apparance
of
deceiptfull
vanities
,
and
not
in
trueth
,
as
it
appeareth
daylie
:
but
the
spirite
of
GOD
doth
teach
the
godly
otherwise
,
as
it
is
afore
sayd
.
That
man
is
then
very
happy
,
that
feeleth
the
grace
of
God
to
be
such
,
as
to
haue
his
sinne
forgiuen
him
:
for
then
his
conscience
is
in
peace
and
rest
,
and
he
feareth
not
to
perish
,
neither
hath
he
the
iudgements
of
God
in
horror
,
but
assureth
himselfe
of
his
fauour
,
and
bountifulnesse
,
which
God
is
to
be
esteemed
the
greatest
,
that
a
man
can
receiue
in
this
mortall
world
.
Among
the
Sarasines
,
those
which
haue
not
considered
of
thinges
very
narrowlie
,
haue
yet
well
knowne
,
that
it
was
a
precious
treasure
not
to
bee
troubled
by
any
committed
forfeite
:
of
which
the
most
wittie
and
sufficient
among
them
haue
made
a
treatise
,
which
he
calleth
the
quietnesse
of
the
Soule
:
but
altogether
ignorant
of
this
poynt
of
the
free
forgiuenes
of
sinne
,
as
all
other
Philosophers
,
not
esteming
any
other
rest
of
conscience
,
but
in
vertue
and
integritie
of
life
,
which
is
but
an
imagination
of
no
value
before
God
:
for
this
man
is
like
vnto
him
,
which
buildeth
without
foundation
,
and
would
make
a
shew
of
that
thing
which
is
not
.
For
to
come
then
vnto
such
blessednesse
,
and
to
inioye
so
happie
felicitie
,
wee
must
knowe
,
that
GOD
to
whom
we
must
giue
an
accompt
,
is
gentle
and
mercifull
,
to
whom
wee
ought
to
haue
all
our
refuge
,
being
certaine
,
that
he
will
be
quiet
and
mercifull
towards
vs
:
neither
imputing
our
iniquities
,
but
will
forgiue
vs
them
freely
.
Then
as
the
m●st
sicke
and
lingering
deseased
haue
more
neede
of
remedies
for
to
be
helped
,
and
eased
of
their
griefe
and
paine
:
likewise
also
the
most
troubled
soules
,
which
are
tormented
with
sorrowe
,
and
anguish
by
feeling
,
and
acknowledging
their
greate
sinnes
,
dreading
the
anger
and
most
feareful
iudgement
of
God
,
haue
more
neede
of
consolation
,
and
greater
assurances
of
the
mercie
of
God
,
wherevpon
their
hope
should
be
totally
founded
and
rooted
.
Who
although
some
times
they
be
debased
by
diuers
temptations
,
yet
by
the
mercies
of
their
God
,
they
neuer
fall
into
any
dissolation
or
confusion
by
dispaire
:
although
it
happen
,
that
the
most
forwarde
in
Religion
and
in
the
feare
of
God
,
haue
to
susteine
many
temptations
of
Sathan
,
who
doth
often
giue
them
hotte
skirmishes
,
and
shooteth
against
them
his
poysoned
and
mortall
arrowes
,
for
to
abate
their
faith
,
and
to
cast
them
into
euerlasting
distruction
,
if
it
were
possible
for
them
so
to
fall
,
and
if
they
some
times
seeme
to
doubt
,
being
trobled
by
distrust
,
and
fearefulnes
,
yet
it
neuer
happeneth
,
that
they
can
fall
vtterly
from
the
trust
which
they
once
conceiued
of
the
mercies
of
God
.
Dauid
was
not
without
some
anguish
and
perturbation
of
spirit
,
when
he
cried
,
My
soule
why
art
thou
vexed
,
and
why
art
thou
so
disquieted
within
me
?
But
when
he
addeth
by
exhortation
that
it
should
hope
still
in
God
,
he
declareth
the
stedfastnes
and
constancie
of
his
faith
,
wherein
hee
saith
,
that
he
was
shut
vp
from
the
sight
of
the
Lorde
,
it
seemed
that
by
the
great
aduersitie
which
hapned
to
him
,
that
God
had
cast
him
of
,
and
quite
forsaken
him
:
yet
he
did
not
for
all
this
leaue
to
call
and
to
hope
in
him
:
so
that
in
the
ende
he
was
highly
exalted
.
And
thus
it
happeneth
oftentimes
to
the
children
of
God
,
finding
them selues
intangled
with
a
gulfe
of
euils
,
their
hope
seemeth
to
bee
swallowed
vp
and
drowned
,
although
in
the
end
it
freshly
appeareth
,
and
lifteth
vp
the
head
and
comming
vnto
it selfe
againe
,
wholy
trusteth
in
GOD
,
and
resteth
vnremoueable
vpon
his
greate
bountie
and
mercie
,
in
which
onely
they
glade
and
comfort
themselues
,
and
not
by
any
vertue
or
desert
which
is
in
them
,
aluding
to
that
which
is
in
the
9.
Chap:
of
Ieremie
:
that
he
which
glorieth
may
glorie
in
the
Lorde
,
that
is
in
his
blessednes
,
and
in
his
mercie
.
In
this
point
then
,
consisteth
our
trust
,
by
the
which
wee
must
needes
see
what
the
foundation
is
,
and
how
farre
it
reacheth
,
if
so
bee
it
bee
firme
and
sure
,
and
because
wee
ought
to
bee
certaine
and
resolued
thereof
,
for
this
cause
wee
will
bring
foorth
the
holy
Scripture
,
as
wel
of
the
Old
as
Newe
Testament
,
which
are
most
fit
and
notable
promises
of
the
grace
and
mercie
of
God
,
for
the
forgiuenes
of
sinnes
,
which
beeing
here
set
on
a
rowe
one
by
another
,
and
placed
as
it
were
on
a
table
all
in
sight
,
it
shall
serue
for
the
instruction
of
the
poore
penitent
sinner
,
and
that
in
this
wee
may
keepe
some
order
,
we
wil
first
shewe
the
testimonies
which
are
apparant
of
the
goodnes
of
God
,
which
is
as
it
were
the
surest
foundation
,
and
the
first
cause
of
all
our
hope
.
In
the
second
place
we
wil
adde
the
causes
,
which
are
as
it
were
the
matter
and
substance
concerning
the
desert
and
intercession
of
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
the
sonne
of
GOD
,
then
the
causes
of
faith
and
repentaunce
shall
followe
,
and
finally
that
which
belongeth
to
Inuocation
and
praier
,
these
are
the
poyntes
and
degrees
by
which
the
faithfull
soule
ought
to
goe
vp
to
the
throne
,
and
to
the
grace
of
God
,
for
to
receiue
the
consolation
and
Spirituall
health
:
First
therefore
it
must
looke
vppon
the
obiects
of
the
loue
and
mercie
of
God
,
and
the
benefites
of
Christ
,
to
haue
therein
a
perfect
knowledge
,
then
it
must
by
Faith
allie
,
and
whollie
trust
vpon
him
,
with
a
perfect
consolation
of
God
in
calling
vpon
him
:
it
must
I
say
perswade
it self
of
the
loue
and
mercie
of
God
,
and
after
haue
full
assurance
of
the
merites
of
Christ
,
which
cannot
be
done
without
faith
:
it
is
therefore
requisite
to
vse
this
prayer
,
which
followeth
.
Of
the
bountie
,
and
mercie
of
God
.
Exo.
Chap.
xxxiiij
.
WHen
the
Lord
passed
before
Moses
face
,
hee
cryed
out
.
The
Lord
,
the
Lord
strong
,
mercifull
,
and
gracious
,
slowe
to
anger
,
&
aboundant
in
goodnes
&
trueth
,
reseruing
mercie
for
thousands
,
forgiuing
iniquitie
,
transgression
,
and
sinne
,
&
not
pardoning
the
wicked
.
As
God
hath
created
the
world
,
mainteineth
and
preserueth
it
,
so
doth
he
mainteyne
,
nourish
,
and
giues
vs
health
and
prosperitie
in
this
life
:
wherein
he
shewes
vnto
vs
his
omnipotent
and
eternall
power
,
his
wisedome
and
wonderfull
foresight
,
and
his
great
bountie
:
but
in
that
we
haue
offended
him
by
our
sinnes
and
iniquities
,
yet
he
receiueth
vs
into
his
mercie
againe
,
reconciling
himself
to
vs
,
forgiuing
vs
our
transgressions
:
so
that
in
this
hee
declareth
vnto
vs
his
clemencie
and
infinite
mercie
,
whereof
he
certifieth
and
giueth
vs
full
assurance
in
his
worde
,
as
he
doth
in
this
place
to
Moses
:
saying
,
that
hee
is
not
onely
the
eternall
God
almightie
,
but
also
mercifull
and
gentle
:
for
to
haue
mercie
and
compassion
vppon
poore
miserable
sinners
belongeth
to
God
:
and
in
that
he
is
of
great
patience
,
he
sheweth
a
manifest
declaration
,
that
he
neuer
punisheth
the
wicked
so
soone
as
they
offend
,
but
a
long
time
staieth
for
their
amendment
,
before
he
makes
them
feele
his
wrath
and
indignation
:
by
which
reason
,
he
accompteth
himselfe
to
bee
slowe
to
anger
,
and
of
great
patience
.
And
in
the
ende
,
that
none
may
thinke
his
mercie
be
either
short
,
or
scant
,
that
it
cannot
suffice
for
diuers
sinners
,
he
also
addeth
,
that
he
aboundant
in
benignitie
:
shewing
by
the
same
,
that
his
bountie
is
so
full
,
that
it
can
neuer
bee
emptied
.
He
is
altogether
infinite
,
eternall
,
and
cannot
be
restrayned
,
nor
contayned
in
the
heauen
of
heauens
,
nor
determined
in
the
measure
of
any
time
:
it
can
neuer
be
stayed
,
being
a
liuely
flowing
spring
,
which
cannot
be
dryed
vp
:
for
most
certaintie
whereof
,
he
maketh
mention
of
his
fidelitie
,
repeating
vp
his
promises
,
by
which
he
may
assure
vs
,
that
he
will
mercifull
vnto
vs
:
wherein
he
sheweth
himselfe
alwaies
to
be
true
,
in
that
he
is
aboundant
in
benignitie
,
and
also
faithfull
in
keeping
promise
:
how
full
of
mercie
he
is
,
he
declareth
in
that
which
followeth
,
that
he
is
mercifull
vnto
thousands
:
wherein
wee
may
learne
,
that
he
sheweth
not
his
mercies
vnto
some
little
number
,
or
some
particuler
place
,
but
to
many
hundreth
and
thousands
:
shewing
by
this
word
an
infinite
,
and
the
greatest
number
that
can
be
expressed
:
by
which
maner
of
speech
,
diuersitie
of
ages
,
and
varietie
of
liues
maye
bee
vnderstood
,
as
it
is
sayd
in
other
places
,
that
he
is
mercifull
,
gentle
,
and
faithfull
:
in
which
words
,
he
expresseth
that
he
is
alwaies
prone
and
readie
to
forgiue
our
sinnes
,
and
to
pardon
our
misdeedes
:
wherein
we
see
that
the
true
and
proper
effect
of
God
is
,
to
haue
forgiuenesse
of
our
sinnes
.
Then
to
the
ende
,
that
none
may
think
that
he
forgiueth
some
light
offences
onely
,
he
vseth
diuers
words
,
which
comprehende
all
kinde
of
sinnes
:
not
only
naming
the
sinne
whereby
all
offences
are
shewed
,
but
also
the
iniquitie
,
which
is
done
maliciously
with
deliberation
and
setled
purpose
,
when
iniurie
or
hurt
is
wrought
against
others
.
The
meaning
then
of
this
worde
transgression
,
is
a
disobedience
,
or
rebellious
action
,
or
intent
against
God
,
which
is
a
greeuous
and
horrible
sinne
:
which
although
of
all
others
it
be
most
detestable
,
yet
God
doth
here
promise
to
make
full
remission
,
and
forgiuenes
of
sinne
.
Let
vs
hold
this
then
for
a
certaine
and
vnf●llible
rule
,
that
there
is
no
forfeite
so
great
,
or
transgression
so
monsterous
,
but
it
is
forgiuen
by
the
meere
mercie
of
God
.
And
wheras
it
is
said
in
the
end
,
that
he
forgiueth
none
:
it
is
onely
ment
of
those
,
which
are
wicked
and
obstinate
in
their
wickednesse
,
and
those
which
shall
feele
finally
the
seuere
vengeaunce
of
God
:
For
so
much
then
as
he
is
named
gentle
,
it
is
to
poore
and
penitent
sinners
,
which
doe
repent
them
of
their
sinnes
committed
:
so
is
he
also
termed
a
iust
Iudge
,
for
to
giue
punishment
to
the
hard
and
impenitent
sinner
,
to
the
ende
that
none
should
abuse
his
grace
and
clemencie
ouer
much
.
Deut.
Chap.
32.
ver.
4.
Ye
nations
praise
him
,
praise
him
his
people
,
for
he
will
auenge
the
blood
of
his
seruants
,
and
will
execute
vengaunce
vppon
his
aduersaries
,
and
will
bee
mercifull
vnto
his
land
,
and
to
his
people
.
MOses
speaketh
this
here
in
the
name
and
authoritie
of
GOD
,
as
a
Prophet
,
assuring
the
people
of
Israell
,
that
after
GOD
hath
visited
them
with
his
rod
,
and
punished
them
with
sudden
and
straunge
calamities
for
their
misdeedes
,
he
would
also
make
punishment
of
their
enemies
,
and
deliuer
them
from
their
miseries
and
tribulations
,
being
mercifull
vnto
the
land
:
that
is
,
to
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
.
The
Children
of
Israell
hauing
purged
themselues
,
and
made
them
cleane
of
their
sinnes
by
Gods
mere
fauour
and
onely
mercie
that
he
might
bee
alwaies
fauourable
towards
them
,
and
that
forraine
nations
and
straunge
people
might
praise
the
children
of
God
,
and
haue
them
in
estimation
,
and
accompt
them
happie
in
hauing
the
fauour
of
such
a
mightie
God
,
and
that
thereby
others
should
haue
occasion
to
reioyce
together
for
so
great
and
bountifull
benefites
from
the
Lord
.
If
then
the
Gentiles
had
receiued
such
ioye
,
as
to
be
partakers
of
so
great
happinesse
,
we
must
needes
esteeme
this
promise
to
pertaine
to
vs
also
,
and
that
continually
,
though
he
doth
afflict
vs
,
which
is
not
but
in
good
cause
,
and
iustly
for
to
correct
vs
for
our
offences
.
Yet
he
is
gentle
,
and
very
ready
to
receiue
vs
into
fauour
of
his
bountifull
fauour
,
not
imputing
vnto
vs
our
iniquities
,
whereof
wee
maye
haue
alwaies
cause
to
praise
our
God
eternally
,
after
that
he
hath
drawne
vs
forth
out
of
the
handes
of
the
oppressors
and
calamities
of
this
world
,
and
hath
receiued
vs
into
his
eternall
rest
.
Psal.
103.
The
Lorde
is
full
of
compassion
and
mercie
,
slowe
to
anger
,
and
of
great
kindnesse
:
he
will
not
alwaies
chide
,
nor
keepe
his
anger
for
euer
.
He
hath
not
dealt
with
vs
after
our
sinnes
,
nor
rewarded
vs
according
to
our
iniquities
:
for
as
high
as
the
heauen
is
aboue
the
earth
,
so
great
is
his
mercie
towards
them
that
feare
him
.
As
farre
as
the
East
is
from
the
West
:
so
farre
hath
he
put
our
sinnes
from
vs
.
As
a
father
hath
compassion
on
his
children
:
so
hath
the
Lorde
compassion
on
them
that
feare
him
.
THe
more
a
man
is
miserable
and
worthy
of
death
and
damnation
,
the
more
the
mercie
of
God
surmounteth
and
ouerpasseth
our
miserie
and
calamitie
,
which
is
declared
vnto
vs
in
diuers
places
of
holy
Scriptures
,
as
it
may
appeare
in
that
,
which
wee
haue
heretofore
spoken
of
.
Exod.
34.
which
portion
of
Scripture
is
agreable
vnto
this
,
although
it
containe
a
more
ample
declaration
(
so
great
is
the
mercies
of
God
)
to
aduaunce
and
amplifie
the
time
&
knowledge
of
him
,
&
his
clemencie
towards
his
people
by
the
ministrie
of
his
Prophetes
,
by
whom
the
mercy
of
God
is
shewed
vnto
vs
,
either
by
a
singnall
promise
by
holy
scripture
,
and
marueilously
amplified
by
comparisons
,
&
parables
both
fit
and
excellent
to
this
ende
,
that
we
may
be
better
perswaded
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
mercie
as
Dauid
confesseth
,
saying
,
The
Lord
is
mercifull
,
gentle
,
slow
to
anger
,
and
of
great
compassion
.
These
are
the
very
selfe
same
titles
which
God
doth
attribute
vnto
himselfe
in
the
place
aforesayd
,
wherein
his
nature
is
described
vnto
vs
,
because
this
matter
concerneth
our
saluation
principally
,
for
this
thing
is
shewed
plainly
by
his
effectes
,
in
that
he
saith
,
That
he
is
not
alwaies
angrie
,
&c.
for
seeing
we
be
disobedient
and
rebellious
vnto
him
,
and
do
not
giue
him
such
honour
as
wee
ought
,
yet
he
pleadeth
not
in
his
wrath
against
vs
,
for
to
haue
his
right
,
and
that
which
especially
doth
pertaine
vnto
him
,
but
that
which
hee
doth
,
he
doth
by
admonitions
,
reprehensions
,
threatnings
of
his
worde
,
corrections
:
that
her
by
he
may
punish
the
transgressors
,
and
in
this
maner
it
is
sayd
,
that
by
the
space
of
fourtie
yeeres
,
he
striued
in
the
Wildernes
with
a
stubber
generation
,
an
vnthankfull
people
of
Israel
,
as
the
Prophet
witnesseth
in
the
95.
Psal.
vers
.
10.
Neither
leaueth
he
here
,
but
doth
the
like
with
their
posteritie
and
ofspring
,
in
forbearing
with
their
sinnes
and
wickednes
,
as
it
appeareth
in
the
first
verse
of
the
4.
Chap.
of
Hoseas
,
in
all
which
places
hee
sheweth
himselfe
marueilous
patient
,
when
being
Lord
almightie
,
and
soueraine
iudge
of
all
the
earth
,
yet
abaseth
him selfe
so
much
as
to
contende
and
maintaine
his
right
against
so
poore
and
feeble
creatures
,
whome
he
might
haue
destroyed
and
ouerthrowen
in
a
moment
,
if
he
had
extended
his
iust
iudgement
&
seueritie
against
them
,
for
although
hee
might
iustly
complaine
of
vs
at
all
times
,
and
at
euery
hower
,
because
of
our
wickednesse
,
yet
hee
is
so
mercifull
,
that
he
chideth
vs
not
continually
,
but
many
times
demisseth
all
complaints
and
suites
,
and
yeeldeth
vp
his
owne
right
,
because
his
mercie
endureth
for
euer
,
neither
doth
he
correct
vs
continually
as
we
deserue
,
neither
is
he
angrie
with
vs
for
euer
,
and
although
he
punish
vs
for
our
iniquities
,
yet
not
according
to
the
custome
of
men
,
who
suffer
them
selues
to
bee
caried
away
,
by
the
rage
and
strength
of
her
violence
and
excessiue
affections
,
but
according
to
the
reprehension
and
feeling
of
those
,
which
hee
striketh
with
his
rodde
,
and
visiteth
with
his
Plagues
,
if
hee
seeme
to
be
angrie
,
it
is
for
a
time
,
it
can
not
continue
for
euer
,
neither
last
long
.
Wherefore
they
which
be
striken
by
him
,
doe
truely
feele
it
,
and
makes
their
complaint
vnto
God
saying
,
why
?
dost
thou
continue
thine
anger
for
euer
?
or
shal
thy
wrath
burne
against
the
sheepe
of
thy
pasture
?
Psal.
74.
How
long
Lord
shal
thine
anger
continue
without
ceasing
?
Psal.
79.
vers.
5.
But
if
we
consider
the
greatnesse
and
multitude
of
our
sinnes
,
wee
shall
finde
,
that
the
wrath
of
God
is
of
smale
continuance
towards
vs
,
seeing
we
bee
not
consumed
of
him
,
we
may
finde
him
as
wee
imagine
sharpe
,
whereas
on
the
contrary
,
we
shall
thinke
him
in
his
great
and
inestimable
goodnes
freely
to
forgiue
vs
,
after
so
many
sorts
and
fashions
.
For
this
cause
it
is
saide
,
that
his
wrath
continueth
but
a
short
time
,
but
in
his
fauour
resteth
life
euerlasting
:
Heauines
may
lodge
with
a
man
one
night
,
but
ioye
commeth
in
the
morning
:
as
it
appeareth
by
this
which
followeth
.
The
church
speaking
vnto
God
,
by
declaring
his
euerlasting
mercie
,
that
although
he
hideth
his
face
●rom
them
,
and
consumeth
them
because
of
●heir
sinnes
:
yet
in
as
much
as
they
bee
the
worke
of
his
owne
hands
,
he
will
not
suffer
●he
Cittie
of
his
Sanctuarie
to
lye
waste
.
Esay
.
54.
For
after
that
GOD
had
afflicted
Israel
by
the
Asserians
,
and
troubled
them
●y
the
Madianites
,
by
the
Philistines
,
Moa●ites
,
and
such
other
nations
that
knew
not
him
,
he
sufficiently
sheweth
,
that
he
was
angrie
against
his
people
:
yet
in
that
he
raised
vp
Iudges
,
Heads
and
Captaines
,
by
whom
he
deliuered
them
from
the
hands
of
their
oppressors
,
and
gaue
them
quietnes
and
peace
in
the
Land
,
wherby
he
caused
them
to
know
that
his
indignation
was
past
,
neither
did
it
continue
or
last
for
euer
:
The
captiuitie
of
Babilon
was
an
euident
testimony
of
the
wrath
of
God
against
the
Iewes
:
yet
by
the
Commaundement
and
Edict
of
Cyrus
hee
brought
them
backe
againe
into
their
country
,
and
caused
the
people
to
knowe
that
hee
had
altogether
ceased
from
his
anger
,
and
put
away
the
burning
of
his
indignation
,
as
he
sheweth
in
the
85.
Psal.
vers
.
4.
See
how
he
hath
quieted
himselfe
,
and
doth
not
hould
his
anger
for
euer
.
But
all
this
which
is
spoken
,
toucheth
the
faithfull
onely
,
as
for
the
vnfaithfull
,
which
do
not
beleeue
the
wrath
of
God
remaynes
on
them
,
as
it
is
said
.
Ioh.
Cha.
3.
ver.
36.
The
third
effect
of
Gods
clemencie
,
&
the
cheefest
towards
vs
is
,
that
he
rewardeth
vs
not
acccording
to
our
wickednes
,
neither
correcteth
vs
according
to
our
sinnes
,
for
the
fruites
and
reward
of
sinne
is
anguish
,
tribulation
,
damnation
,
and
death
on
euery
soule
as
it
is
written
to
the
Rom.
Chap.
2.
ver.
9.
and
Chap.
6.
vers.
23.
Then
if
God
should
punish
vs
,
and
handle
vs
according
to
our
deserts
,
we
should
be
excessiuely
afflicted
,
and
continually
in
anguish
without
ende
:
yea
,
one
should
bee
alreadie
ouerthrowen
and
destroyed
,
but
in
as
much
as
he
spareth
&
forbeareth
vs
,
defending
vs
from
so
many
perrils
,
and
deliuering
vs
from
so
manyfold
dangers
,
and
which
is
more
,
that
he
maketh
vs
knowe
that
we
be
his
,
and
adorneth
vs
with
all
the
giftes
of
his
holy
spirite
,
and
putteth
vs
in
hope
of
life
euerlasting
:
he
sheweth
manifestly
by
these
,
that
he
doth
not
reward
vs
according
to
our
deserts
,
neither
recompence
vs
as
we
haue
deserued
.
By
nature
therefore
we
doe
nothing
but
offend
,
yet
for
our
vnhappines
hee
restoreth
goodnes
againe
.
Wherefore
it
is
sayde
,
that
there
is
great
mercie
with
the
Lorde
,
true
it
is
,
that
sometimes
hee
correcteth
vs
for
our
wickednes
,
but
neuer
chasteneth
nor
puni●heth
vs
according
to
our
desertes
:
no
more
then
if
he
had
not
regarded
them
,
or
as
they
had
neuer
bene
committed
,
seeing
then
that
he
remits
&
wholy
forgiues
vs
,
by
which
it
is
sayd
,
that
the
mercies
of
the
Lord
is
ouer
all
his
workes
,
and
his
goodnes
reacheth
vnto
the
cloudes
,
not
that
it
endeth
there
,
for
it
can
not
be
contayned
in
the
Heauen
of
heauens
,
but
because
in
this
world
nothing
can
seeme
higher
then
Heauen
,
which
is
raysed
aboue
the
earth
by
an
incomprehensible
distaunce
,
as
it
is
said
in
the
Psal.
36.
that
the
goodnes
of
God
reacheth
vnto
the
heauens
,
therefore
it
is
added
afterward
,
that
it
is
excellent
,
it
is
ouer
our
heades
,
it
doeth
ouerpasse
our
sight
,
it
is
altogether
to
be
marueled
at
,
this
is
the
height
,
the
breadth
,
the
deapth
of
the
loue
of
Christ
,
which
is
spoken
of
in
the
3.
Chap.
to
the
Ephes.
It
is
marueylous
high
and
wonderfull
to
behold
,
it
reacheth
to
the
deepes
beneath
,
there
is
nothing
which
the
spirite
of
man
can
Imagine
to
bee
greater
,
but
onely
Gods
loue
and
bountie
towardes
vs
,
who
from
the
highest
Heauens
,
from
his
celestiall
and
glorious
throne
vouchsafeth
to
come
to
the
bottomlesse
Pit
of
the
earth
,
to
drawe
vs
from
it
,
and
to
make
vs
ascende●
where
hymselfe
abideth
,
it
scatereth
it selfe
here
and
there
,
in
length
infinite
,
in
breadth
wonderfull
,
so
that
among
so
many
regions
the
people
may
feele
the
vertue
of
it
in
their
hearts
by
the
holy
ghost
,
and
yet
wee
must
knowe
,
that
God
neuer
vseth
this
clemencie
to
them
which
shewe
themselues
profayned
and
contemners
of
his
grace
,
but
those
which
doe
feare
him
and
sheweth
him
honour
and
reuerence
,
therein
lyeth
properly
the
greatnesse
of
the
bountifulnesse
of
the
Almightie
.
This
is
againe
shewed
by
a
notable
effect
,
when
it
is
sayde
,
that
hee
casteth
from
vs
our
offences
:
as
for
the
wicked
,
their
malice
doth
not
remoue
,
but
remaynes
still
,
lying
euen
at
the
gate
:
as
the
Lord
speaketh
of
the
sinne
of
Cain
Gen.
Chap.
4.
ver.
7.
concerning
the
offences
of
the
faithfull
,
although
they
be
set
before
them
,
and
that
they
doe
present
them selues
oftentimes
before
the
eyes
of
the
soule
:
as
it
happened
to
the
Prophet
,
when
he
said
,
that
his
sinnes
was
continually
before
him
.
Psal.
51.
ver.
5.
which
is
nothing
vnto
them
,
but
an
exercise
of
true
repentance
,
to
bring
them
vnto
humilitie
,
and
after
makes
them
more
circumspect
:
yet
neuerthelesse
,
in
respect
of
Gods
mercie
,
they
be
all
put
away
:
for
he
putteth
them
farre
from
him
,
scattereth
them
abroade
,
and
casteth
them
behinde
●im
,
neuer
to
be
remembred
againe
.
Which
is
shewed
by
a
comparison
of
the
distaunce
betweene
the
East
and
the
West
,
which
is
the
farthest
distaunce
that
can
bee
imagined
vnder
the
Sunne
:
euen
so
then
,
as
the
East
is
farre
from
the
West
,
and
the
West
farre
from
the
East
by
a
separation
and
great
distance
:
euen
so
farre
GOD
doth
cast
all
our
sinnes
away
from
vs
:
yea
so
farre
,
that
they
cannot
be
perceiued
or
no
more
appeare
,
than
that
which
is
carried
away
from
one
ende
of
the
world
vnto
the
other
.
And
to
confirme
al
that
is
spoken
before
,
God
is
in
holy
Scripture
compared
vnto
a
father
,
which
is
mercifull
vnto
his
children
:
for
as
you
see
a
father
couer
many
of
his
sonnes
imperfections
,
neither
vseth
such
rigour
and
seueritie
towards
them
as
he
might
,
but
spareth
them
as
much
as
possiblie
he
can
.
In
like
maner
also
,
God
(
who
is
our
great
and
celestiall
father
)
is
moued
with
all
pittie
&
compassion
towards
vs
,
and
readie
to
forgiue
vs
all
our
sinnes
:
so
that
wee
feare
to
offend
him
,
neither
doe
abound
in
our
iniquities
.
Psal.
130.
If
thou
O
Lord
shouldst
straightly
marke
our
iniquities
,
O
Lord
who
should
stand
before
thee
:
but
mercie
is
with
thee
,
that
thou
maiest
be
feared
.
Let
Israel
waite
on
the
Lord
,
for
with
the
Lord
there
is
mercie
,
and
with
him
is
great
redemption
,
and
he
shall
redeeme
Jsrael
from
all
his
iniquities
.
THere
is
none
of
vs
,
which
are
not
in
daunger
to
fall
into
eternall
ruyne
and
destruction
,
if
God
should
looke
narrowly
into
our
sinnes
and
offences
,
to
examine
them
in
seueritie
,
and
execute
a
iust
punishment
for
them
:
for
there
is
no
man
that
could
stand
before
his
tribunall
Seate
,
nor
bee
able
to
iustifie
himselfe
by
his
owne
righteousnesse
.
Therefore
Dauid
in
his
prayers
and
supplications
to
the
Lord
,
desireth
him
not
to
enter
into
iudgement
with
him
,
as
he
had
deserued
.
Psal.
144.
ver.
2.
neither
may
this
seeme
straunge
,
or
spoken
without
speciall
purpose
,
but
it
is
the
same
in
substance
,
which
the
author
of
this
Psalm
speaketh
of
here
:
which
is
done
for
our
consolation
and
trust
,
that
forgiuenes
of
our
sinnes
only
commeth
from
the
Lord
:
neither
doth
he
take
any
heede
of
them
therby
to
condemne
vs
,
but
he
sheweth
himselfe
gentle
,
and
mercifull
to
vs
:
which
made
the
Prophet
in
conclusion
to
say
,
That
because
there
is
mercie
with
God
,
therefore
he
should
be
feared
.
And
that
this
might
not
be
done
in
himselfe
onely
,
he
stirreth
vp
all
sortes
of
men
,
and
euery
state
and
condition
of
nations
to
the
due
feare
and
true
reuerence
of
his
Maiestie
,
thereby
that
high
and
lowe
,
rich
and
poore
,
one
with
an
other
might
wholly
giue
themselues
to
serue
him
in
thankfulnesse
and
heauenly
melodie
:
for
the
more
he
powreth
on
vs
his
bountifull
and
mercifull
liberalitie
,
the
more
we
are
bound
to
him
,
and
ought
to
be
much
more
desirous
to
serue
him
in
holinesse
and
righteousnesse
all
the
daies
of
our
life
.
So
that
the
forgiuenesse
of
our
sinnes
is
ioyned
with
the
honor
and
glorie
of
GOD
,
and
our
obedience
,
which
ought
to
followe
his
grace
,
not
onely
particulerly
,
but
also
generally
among
all
true
Christians
.
For
,
for
this
cause
Dauid
doth
giue
certaine
assuraunce
vnto
the
Catholicke
Church
of
GOD
,
vnder
the
name
of
Israel
:
saying
,
that
the
Lord
would
deliuer
Israel
from
all
his
iniquities
,
and
purge
them
from
all
their
sinnes
:
&
although
the
Church
be
not
without
sinne
during
the
time
that
it
is
in
this
earthly
perigrination
,
but
hath
wrinckles
and
spots
subiect
to
many
infirmities
and
transgressions
,
by
whom
it
is
as
it
were
made
captiue
and
brought
into
bondage
:
yet
God
will
deliuer
it
continually
out
of
such
miserie
,
and
by
his
infinite
mercie
forgiue
it
not
some
faults
onely
,
but
all
her
iniquities
how
great
soeuer
they
bee
,
and
of
what
number
soeuer
.
Vpon
this
hope
then
,
the
Prophet
exhorteth
the
Church
to
trust
in
the
Lorde
,
hoping
in
him
in
time
of
oppression
,
when
wee
are
in
distresse
and
extreame
affliction
.
In
as
much
as
there
is
aboundance
of
mercie
with
him
,
he
wanteth
no
meanes
to
redeeme
and
drawe
his
out
of
anguish
and
tribulation
:
his
waies
are
infinite
,
he
needeth
no
good
affection
,
being
inclined
and
giuen
by
his
owne
nature
to
clemencie
and
mercie
.
Esay
Chap.
1.
ver.
18.
Though
your
sinnes
were
as
Crimsin
,
they
shal
be
made
white
as
Snowe
:
though
they
were
made
red
like
Skarlet
,
they
shal
be
as
wooll
.
THis
is
an
excellent
and
comfortable
promise
,
which
God
hath
made
to
his
auncient
people
,
that
of
his
mercie
he
hath
put
all
their
sinnes
out
of
accompt
,
euen
as
though
they
had
neuer
bene
committed
:
were
they
neuer
so
great
and
filthie
,
yet
Gods
mercie
is
greater
:
&
therfore
they
ought
not
to
dispayre
.
The
Prophet
declareth
the
small
honor
they
shewed
to
God
,
and
their
wonderfull
imperfections
,
when
he
giueth
vnto
them
such
opprobrius
titles
,
calling
them
rebellious
Children
,
a
generation
of
Vipers
,
a
people
altogether
giuen
to
iniquitie
,
a
wicked
seede
,
base
borne
,
corrupt
children
,
yea
,
sparing
none
,
no
not
one
:
he
sayth
that
they
are
all
naught
,
from
the
greatest
to
the
lowest
,
from
the
head
to
the
foote
,
both
Priest
and
people
,
Magestrate
and
subiect
are
like
to
them
of
Zodome
,
and
as
the
inhabitaunce
of
Gomorra
,
all
defiled
with
murther
,
&
shedding
of
innocent
blood
:
yet
GOD
doth
promise
that
he
will
neuer
bring
their
sinnes
to
accompt
,
bee
their
iniquities
neuer
so
greeuous
and
monstrous
,
as
the
comparison
of
colours
,
euen
of
the
red
and
bloudy
colour
,
of
the
Skarlet
and
Purple
dye
sheweth
:
yet
the
Lord
will
make
them
as
wooll
,
yea
,
as
white
as
the
driuen
snowe
,
then
the
which
,
what
can
be
whiter
?
Therefore
the
Lord
setteth
downe
these
wordes
,
to
assure
vs
,
by
fit
and
probable
similitudes
,
that
although
their
sinnes
were
ripe
,
and
as
it
were
dyed
in
graine
,
which
will
not
easily
alter
or
chaunge
the
colour
:
yet
they
shall
be
no
more
remembred
,
nor
once
appeare
again
before
him
,
no
more
then
the
olde
colour
is
knowne
which
hath
taken
on
it
a
newe
dye
:
So
all
the
filthinesse
and
infamie
that
was
found
in
them
shall
bee
made
very
pure
,
and
very
cleane
.
And
after
this
sort
doth
the
Prophet
pray
,
that
if
God
would
wash
,
purifie
,
and
make
him
cleane
againe
from
his
sinne
,
then
he
should
bee
whiter
then
Snowe
,
and
clearer
,
yea
farre
clearer
then
the
Christall
glasse
.
Psal.
51.
ver.
9.
And
although
it
may
seeme
,
that
this
promise
was
made
particulary
to
the
Iewes
:
yet
notwithstanding
it
doth
appertaine
to
vs
also
,
that
hereby
wee
might
knowe
,
that
the
mercie
of
God
is
no
lesse
towardes
vs
,
nor
his
arme
shortned
in
our
daies
:
but
rather
more
amply
declared
,
and
shewed
by
the
comming
of
his
Sonne
,
and
our
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
Esay
Chap.
43.
ver.
25.
I
,
euen
I
am
he
that
putteth
away
thyne
iniquities
for
myne
owne
sake
,
and
will
not
remember
thy
sinnes
.
ALthough
our
sinnes
be
as
thei
were
written
with
a
pen
of
Iron
,
&
with
a
diamond
poynt
,
and
profoundly
engrauen
in
the
tables
of
our
harts
,
and
in
our
soules
,
&
noted
by
too
much
apparance
:
neuerthelesse
the
Lord
our
God
doth
certifie
vs
here
,
of
the
forgiuenesse
of
them
,
saying
that
it
is
himselfe
,
which
doth
blot
,
put
out
,
&
rayse
them
in
such
sort
,
that
they
are
not
to
be
perceiued
any
more
,
neither
doe
they
appeare
at
any
time
before
his
face
,
no
otherwise
than
if
they
had
neuer
bene
committed
,
hee
I
say
blotteth
them
out
,
not
for
one
day
,
nor
for
certaine
monethes
or
yeres
,
or
for
some
space
of
time
prescribed
or
limited
,
but
continually
and
to
the
last
gaspe
,
which
is
shewed
by
this
phrase
of
speaking
,
for
this
word
to
blot
out
,
is
a
perpetuall
extinguishing
of
that
,
which
hath
bin
manifested
neuer
to
be
in
the
like
state
againe
,
whereby
we
may
learne
,
that
we
haue
al
neede
of
his
great
grace
,
not
for
a
time
,
but
vnto
the
end
of
our
life
,
yea
so
long
as
sinne
shal
remaine
in
vs
,
for
wee
are
euer
molested
and
greeued
,
and
therforefore
haue
neede
of
mercie
,
as
it
is
declared
in
the
Romans
.
Chap.
7.
vers.
23.24
.
and
in
that
hee
saith
,
that
it
is
he
himselfe
,
which
blotteth
out
our
iniquities
,
he
sheweth
none
other
can
do
it
but
he
,
neither
is
there
any
creature
either
in
heauen
or
in
earth
,
that
hath
such
power
either
in
themselues
,
or
from
themselues
.
Now
then
we
must
learne
,
how
this
can
be
true
,
seeing
it
is
sayd
,
that
the
Apostles
and
Shepherds
of
the
Church
of
God
haue
receiued
such
authoritie
to
forgiue
sinnes
,
as
in
S.
Math.
Chap.
18.
vers.
18.
and
S.
Iohn
.
Chap.
20.
vers.
23.
but
this
is
by
reason
of
their
charge
and
ministry
,
and
not
that
it
belongeth
to
them selues
properly
,
they
may
in
deede
remit
the
offences
committed
,
but
by
and
in
the
name
of
the
Lorde
,
to
whome
they
be
Herraltes
and
Ambassadours
,
it
then
belongeth
vnto
God
onely
to
remit
sinnes
,
for
the
which
he
will
haue
vs
to
be
fully
assured
,
in
considering
that
it
is
himselfe
which
doth
speake
it
,
and
which
maketh
this
promise
,
euen
he
,
which
is
eternall
and
euerlasting
:
euen
he
,
which
is
good
and
full
of
mercie
:
this
repetition
and
maner
of
speaking
belongeth
to
him
,
in
that
it
is
sayde
:
I
my
selfe
forgiue
sinnes
to
this
end
,
that
we
may
not
in
any
wise
doubt
,
but
therein
wholy
be
perswaded
by
what
meanes
he
is
moued
and
stirred
vp
,
for
in
blotting
out
our
sinnes
,
hee
declareth
that
it
is
for
his
name
sake
,
it
is
not
then
for
any
worthinesse
in
vs
,
nor
in
consideration
of
any
deserts
of
ours
:
Neither
obtained
by
any
Saints
or
indulgences
found
out
by
mans
imagination
,
but
by
his
free
bountie
,
according
to
that
which
Dauid
doth
desire
of
the
Lord
,
that
according
to
his
great
compassion
,
hee
would
blot
out
our
iniquities
.
Psalme
.
51.
vers.
3.
He
addeth
also
for
the
confirmation
of
this
,
that
which
is
spoken
before
,
that
he
will
not
bring
our
sinnes
to
account
,
not
that
he
is
forgetfull
,
for
wee
must
knowe
,
that
all
things
be
present
vnto
him
,
and
before
his
eyes
:
but
this
is
to
shew
,
that
he
will
not
bring
them
to
account
,
for
to
make
punishment
of
them
againe
.
Esay
.
Chap.
44.
vers.
22.
I
haue
put
away
thy
transgressions
like
a
cloude
,
and
thy
sinnes
like
a
Mist
,
turne
vnto
mee
for
I
haue
redeemed
thee
.
FOrasmuch
as
sinne
is
nothing
but
filth
and
durt
,
wherewith
we
be
all
infected
and
abhominably
polluted
,
behold
God
which
saith
that
hee
himselfe
blotteth
them
out
,
not
in
halfe
,
nor
in
some
part
,
but
wholy
,
and
altogether
:
neither
more
,
nor
lesse
,
but
as
a
very
thicke
and
darke
cloude
,
which
by
the
abundance
and
force
of
raine
,
and
ouerflowing
waters
doe
take
and
carry
away
with
them selues
the
filthines
of
the
earth
:
so
we
when
we
be
washed
,
and
purified
from
such
filthines
,
and
faultes
,
hee
will
not
haue
vs
returne
backe
againe
vnto
the
mud
,
there
to
defile
our selues
,
but
willeth
vs
to
continue
with
him
,
setting
vs
in
the
faire
way
and
obedience
,
which
doth
appertaine
vnto
him
,
not
onely
by
nature
&
creation
,
but
also
by
right
of
redemption
,
for
he
is
our
redeemer
,
and
our
pledge
,
which
hath
redemed
vs
,
and
keepeth
vs
against
all
enimies
.
Mich.
Chap.
7.
vers.
18.
Who
is
a
God
like
vnto
the
Lord
,
that
taketh
away
iniquitie
,
&
passeth
by
the
transgressions
of
the
remnant
of
his
heritage
,
he
retaineth
not
his
wrath
for
euer
,
because
mercy
pleaseth
him
,
hee
will
turne
againe
and
haue
compassion
,
he
will
subdue
our
iniquities
,
and
cast
all
our
sinnes
into
the
bottom
of
the
sea
,
thou
wilt
performe
thy
trueth
to
Iacob
,
and
mercie
to
Abraham
,
as
thou
hast
sworne
to
our
fathers
in
old
time
.
TRuely
there
is
none
that
may
bee
compared
vnto
God
,
either
in
gentlenes
,
or
in
power
:
for
he
and
none
other
remitteth
sinne
,
and
although
he
met
a
sinner
in
the
way
,
(
because
all
thinges
bee
present
vnto
him
)
yet
he
will
not
stay
himselfe
to
punish
,
but
depart
farther
of
,
as
though
he
took
no
heede
what
is
done
,
and
leaue
behind
him
the
offence
committed
.
By
this
maner
of
speech
it
is
sayd
,
that
God
casteth
our
sinnes
backe
from
him
.
Esay
Chap.
38.
ver.
17.
yet
onely
to
those
which
do
properly
appertaine
vnto
him
,
whom
he
doth
auouch
&
acknowledge
for
his
inheritance
,
and
peculiar
people
,
who
are
of
that
Church
,
to
whome
hee
graunteth
grace
,
from
which
all
others
bee
sequestred
.
And
be
it
,
that
sometymes
he
doth
anger
himselfe
,
and
his
wrath
be
mooued
against
his
owne
iustly
:
yet
it
is
not
of
long
continuaunce
,
in
so
much
that
hee
is
rather
prone
to
mercie
and
clemencie
,
then
to
seueritie
and
rigor
.
And
although
he
seeme
by
our
offences
and
vices
to
turne
himself
back
from
vs
,
and
to
afflict
vs
,
as
we
deserue
:
yet
he
will
returne
againe
,
and
wil
shewe
vs
the
cherefull
and
comfortable
light
of
his
countenance
,
in
shewing
compassion
on
vs
,
he
forgiueth
all
our
sinnes
,
by
putting
downe
and
destroying
all
the
violence
and
force
of
death
:
so
that
we
are
no
more
houlden
in
captiuitie
and
bondage
,
but
made
free
,
and
set
at
libertie
by
him
,
not
by
casting
them
on
the
ground
onely
,
but
by
destroying
,
and
deliuering
vs
from
them
,
by
throwing
them
into
the
bottome
of
the
Sea
,
that
they
may
appeare
no
more
,
but
the
memorie
of
them
passe
away
,
as
a
thing
which
is
bound
vp
and
cast
into
the
deepest
Sea
.
And
in
this
we
see
,
that
he
is
not
mooued
for
any
worthinesse
that
is
in
vs
,
but
of
his
onely
bountie
and
clemencie
,
being
gentle
and
full
of
mercie
,
slowe
to
anger
,
and
of
great
goodnesse
by
nature
,
faithfull
in
his
promises
which
he
made
vnto
the
fathers
,
and
confirmed
by
his
oth
,
and
in
these
latter
tymes
fulfilled
the
bountifulnesse
of
his
mercie
in
his
onely
Sonne
:
who
is
the
onely
pledge
to
assure
vs
of
the
forgiuenesse
of
our
sinnes
.
And
wheras
the
Prophet
saith
that
God
doth
not
onely
forgiue
our
sinnes
,
but
passeth
them
ouer
,
not
by
putting
them
downe
onely
,
but
casting
them
into
the
bottome
of
the
Sea
,
for
to
abolish
them
wholly
:
it
cannot
be
more
plainly
expressed
or
declared
,
how
God
forgiueth
vs
.
Then
,
if
in
the
tyme
of
the
lawe
and
shadowes
,
his
promise
was
not
in
vaine
:
how
much
ought
we
now
to
be
more
certaine
of
it
vnder
the
kingdome
of
Christ
,
by
whome
wee
obtaine
trueth
and
grace
?
The
grace
of
GOD
towardes
vs
,
by
meanes
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
.
Ieremy
Chap.
31.
ver.
31.
Beholde
the
day
is
come
,
sayth
the
Lord
,
that
I
will
make
a
new
couenant
with
the
house
of
Jsrael
,
and
with
the
house
of
Iuda
.
J
will
put
my
law
in
their
inward
parts
,
&
write
it
in
their
hearts
,
and
wil
be
their
God
,
and
they
shall
be
my
people
:
I
will
pardon
their
iniquities
,
and
will
remember
their
sinnes
no
more
.
THis
is
the
holy
and
happie
alliaunce
,
that
wee
obtaine
with
God
by
Iesus
Christ
his
Sonne
,
by
whome
,
albeit
we
bee
sufficiently
taught
,
and
instructed
in
the
knowledge
of
his
trueth
,
both
in
wil
and
affection
to
obey
him
,
according
to
his
commandements
,
yet
we
goe
oftentimes
astray
,
and
doe
against
his
deuine
precepts
,
by
the
wickednesse
and
imperfections
which
remaynes
in
vs
:
wherefore
we
haue
alwayes
neede
of
his
grace
,
for
the
remission
of
our
sinnes
,
in
the
promise
which
hee
hath
made
vnto
vs
,
as
wee
are
taught
in
this
place
of
Scripture
:
which
although
it
was
made
in
the
auncient
couenant
of
the
lawe
wherein
al
things
also
are
included
,
yet
it
partaineth
properly
vnto
the
newe
promise
,
obtained
by
Iesus
Christ
the
very
Sonne
of
GOD
,
the
sure
foundation
and
perfect
substance
of
our
saluation
:
for
he
is
the
mediator
of
the
newe
Testament
,
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
Epistle
to
the
Heb.
Chap.
9.
It
is
he
by
whose
desert
all
our
sinnes
are
forgiuen
,
which
could
not
bee
remitted
by
the
outward
figures
,
and
vaine
shadowes
of
the
lawe
.
Esay
Chap.
53.
ver.
4.
Surely
he
hath
borne
our
infirmities
,
and
caried
our
sorrowes
:
he
was
wounded
for
our
transgressions
,
&
broken
for
our
iniquities
:
the
chastisment
of
our
peace
was
vpon
him
,
and
with
his
stripes
wee
are
healed
.
The
Lord
hath
layd
vpon
him
the
iniquities
of
vs
all
,
by
his
knowledge
shall
my
iust
seruant
iustifie
many
,
for
he
shall
beare
their
sinnes
.
AS
God
is
by
nature
gentle
and
mercifull
,
so
is
he
a
seuere
and
iust
Iudge
:
for
he
leaueth
not
sinne
vnpunished
,
but
layeth
the
punishment
of
it
vpon
his
onely
Sonne
,
who
in
the
fulnesse
of
time
deliuered
him
for
vs
vnto
the
shamefull
and
accursed
death
of
the
Crosse
,
wherein
his
iustice
and
mercie
is
founde
by
ioyning
both
together
in
an
inseperable
bond
of
vnitie
.
And
first
in
that
,
that
Iesus
Christ
suffered
for
our
iniquities
:
the
other
in
that
,
that
he
was
well
pleased
to
suffer
his
Sonne
to
be
a
pledge
,
and
an
attonement
for
vs
.
This
then
the
Prophet
teacheth
in
this
place
,
that
Christ
hath
suffered
for
vs
an
infinite
number
of
greefes
,
torments
,
and
punishments
,
as
touching
his
soule
:
he
suffered
a
death
full
of
shame
and
reproch
in
the
worlde
,
to
iustifie
and
deliuer
vs
from
damnation
and
eternal
death
,
acquiting
vs
from
the
wrath
of
God
.
Seeing
then
,
that
in
hart
and
affection
wee
acknowledge
him
for
our
tru●
Sauiour
and
Redeemer
,
we
neede
not
to
feare
,
although
we
shall
perceiue
,
and
acknowledge
our selues
to
be
guiltie
:
yet
wee
may
bee
assured
,
that
wee
are
in
peace
with
God
,
because
Iesus
Christ
our
Redeemer
hath
borne
the
paines
due
for
our
iniquities
.
If
Sathan
then
doe
assaile
vs
by
terrible
imaginations
of
the
paines
and
torments
,
which
we
haue
iustly
deserued
in
respect
of
our
iniquities
,
let
vs
present
our selues
in
the
rightuousnesse
and
holinesse
of
Iesus
Christ
:
for
he
hath
borne
our
greefes
,
&
layde
our
sorowes
on
him
:
he
hath
bene
wounded
,
hurt
,
and
murthered
:
he
died
for
vs
which
are
vniust
,
and
rose
againe
for
our
sanctification
,
to
the
end
he
might
iustifie
and
absolue
vs
.
Zach.
Chap.
12.
ver.
1.
In
that
day
there
shal
be
a
fountaine
opened
to
the
house
of
Dauid
,
and
to
the
inhabitants
of
Ierusalem
for
sinne
,
and
for
vncleannes
.
THis
is
the
fayre
and
cleare
fountaine
of
grace
,
the
liuely
water
that
floweth
to
vs
by
Iesus
Christ
,
by
the
shedding
of
his
precious
blood
,
which
is
opened
to
all
those
which
are
of
the
houshold
of
God
,
and
made
Citizens
of
the
heauenly
and
spirituall
Ierusalem
,
which
is
the
true
Church
wherein
they
wash
and
purge
their
sinnes
.
Let
vs
therefore
goe
vnto
this
liuely
water
,
and
into
this
life
euerlasting
,
where
the
one
neuer
stayeth
running
,
and
cannot
be
dryed
vp
,
nor
the
possessors
of
the
other
shall
euer
taste
of
the
second
death
:
for
this
spring
floweth
in
great
aboundance
,
so
that
we
shal
be
washed
faire
and
cleane
,
bee
our
iniquities
neuer
so
foule
and
polluted
.
Math.
Chap.
11.
ver.
18.
Come
vnto
me
all
ye
that
are
wearie
and
heauie
laden
,
and
J
will
refresh
you
.
THe
admirable
and
bountifull
loue
of
the
Lorde
Iesus
is
in
this
place
shewed
,
in
that
he
vouchsafeth
to
helpe
and
succour
those
,
which
be
poore
and
in
miserie
,
he
will
not
cast
them
away
,
neither
send
them
to
others
to
make
their
mone
and
complaints
:
but
he
calleth
them
himself
vnto
him
,
I
say
he
,
which
is
the
very
Sonne
of
God
,
the
Lord
of
glory
,
calleth
those
vnto
him
which
are
oppressed
,
&
troubled
in
their
consciences
by
the
feeling
of
their
sinnes
,
and
therefore
promiseth
to
ayde
them
,
and
giue
them
rest
,
the
true
tranquilitie
and
happie
quietnesse
of
the
soule
:
Let
vs
goe
therefore
to
Iesus
Christ
our
onely
Sauiour
and
redeemer
:
let
vs
goe
in
a
true
faith
,
and
earnest
repentance
,
seeing
he
stretcheth
forth
his
armes
to
receiue
vs
:
seing
he
is
sweet
,
gentle
,
mercifull
,
of
great
goodnesse
.
Are
we
therefore
heauy
loden
with
the
burthen
of
our
sinnes
?
he
will
deliuer
vs
from
the
yoke
and
seruitude
of
the
house
of
bondage
.
Are
we
ouer
hayled
,
and
tyed
by
the
tyrannie
of
sinne
and
death
?
he
will
preserue
vs
from
the
seruitude
of
the
one
,
and
from
the
deadly
sting
of
the
other
.
Iohn
Chap.
1.
ver.
29.
Behold
the
Lambe
of
God
,
which
taketh
away
the
sinnes
of
the
world
.
THis
is
the
testimonie
that
Iohn
the
Baptist
witnesseth
openly
of
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
who
was
ordayned
and
sent
of
God
to
be
the
Lambe
(
without
fault
,
without
spotte
)
which
in
former
times
was
figured
in
sundry
Sacrifices
of
the
law
,
yet
more
especially
in
the
Passouer
or
Lambe
,
which
was
offred
euery
day
,
morning
,
and
euening
for
the
sinnes
of
the
Priest
,
and
people
:
but
this
Lambe
,
when
none
was
worthy
to
offer
him
vp
to
his
father
,
hath
willingly
offered
himselfe
,
that
by
dying
once
for
al
,
he
might
obtaine
forgiuenes
of
sinnes
for
all
:
and
by
this
meanes
he
hath
brought
vs
vnto
God
the
father
,
that
he
might
continually
,
not
for
once
acquite
,
and
deliuer
vs
from
our
sinnes
,
which
is
shewed
more
forceable
,
if
wee
marke
the
worde
which
he
vseth
(
he
doth
take
away
)
which
is
declared
in
the
tyme
present
,
and
that
by
the
merite
of
his
death
,
which
is
alwaies
of
one
and
the
same
vertue
,
and
perpetual
efficacie
,
whereby
we
obtaine
our
eternall
redemption
:
as
it
is
sayd
by
the
author
to
the
Heb.
Chap.
9.
And
this
benefite
being
so
precious
&
great
,
serueth
not
for
one
,
or
two
onely
,
neither
for
one
onely
Nation
,
but
reacheth
ouer
al
people
,
and
euery
Nation
of
the
earth
,
as
this
word
(
world
)
proueth
.
Let
vs
not
then
doubt
that
our
sinnes
are
remitted
by
the
death
of
Christ
,
whose
death
should
nothing
auayle
vs
,
if
we
should
not
receiue
the
fruite
of
it
by
faith
in
his
promises
,
seeing
that
sinne
dwelleth
in
vs
continually
,
as
it
is
prooued
in
the
7.
Chapter
to
the
Romaines
.
Therefore
we
receiue
pardon
for
them
continually
by
him
,
who
hath
brought
vs
to
the
throne
of
grace
,
where
with
boldnesse
we
may
call
his
father
abba
our
father
.
Acts
Chap.
5.
ver.
31.
This
is
that
Jesus
,
which
God
hath
lifted
vp
with
his
right
hand
,
to
bee
a
Prince
and
a
Sauiour
,
to
giue
repentaunce
to
Israel
,
and
forgiuenes
of
sinnes
.
THe
Empyre
and
soueraigne
dominion
of
Christ
is
here
shewed
vnto
vs
by
S.
Peter
,
to
the
ende
,
he
might
declare
vnto
vs
the
power
&
spirituall
libertie
,
which
he
bestoweth
on
his
Church
,
meaning
his
people
of
Israel
:
that
is
to
say
,
that
by
him
our
sinnes
are
remitted
,
with
chaunge
of
newnesse
of
life
,
promised
to
our
eternall
saluation
.
These
two
graces
then
being
ioyned
together
,
can
neuer
bee
seperated
,
that
thereby
none
may
doubt
of
the
obtayning
of
this
excellent
benefite
purchased
by
the
Lord
Iesus
:
which
otherwise
would
pull
back
from
his
highnes
,
and
debate
his
power
,
who
will
for
these
benefites
be
honoured
in
word
,
and
glorified
in
deede
.
Acts
Chap.
13.
ver.
38.
Be
it
knowne
vnto
you
,
that
through
this
man
(
our
Sauiour
Christ
)
is
preached
vnto
you
forgiuenes
of
sinnes
.
THis
place
is
like
vnto
the
former
,
concerning
the
benefite
purchased
by
Christ
,
by
whom
we
obtayne
forgiuenes
of
our
sinnes
:
a
thing
worthy
of
all
men
to
bee
had
in
memorie
,
of
the
which
euery
man
ought
to
bee
certaine
,
and
resolued
in
the
assurance
of
his
saluation
.
Rom.
Chap.
5.
ver.
8.
God
sheweth
his
loue
towards
vs
,
seeing
that
while
wee
were
yet
sinners
Christ
dyed
for
vs
,
much
more
now
being
iustified
by
his
blood
:
we
shal
be
saued
from
wrath
through
him
,
for
if
when
we
were
enemies
we
were
reconciled
to
God
by
the
death
of
his
sonne
,
much
more
being
reconciled
,
shal
be
saued
by
his
life
,
and
not
onely
so
,
but
also
reioyce
in
God
through
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
,
by
whom
we
haue
obtayned
reconciliation
.
THis
is
to
assure
vs
of
the
loue
and
mercie
of
God
towardes
vs
,
and
of
our
saluation
,
when
we
consider
what
Christ
Iesus
hath
done
for
vs
,
who
beeing
the
Sonne
of
God
,
iust
,
and
innocent
,
suffered
so
many
torments
for
vs
vniust
,
and
guiltie
,
so
that
now
wee
are
purged
,
and
made
cleare
of
al
our
faults
and
iniquities
:
yea
,
we
are
acquited
and
absolued
from
the
wrath
and
anger
of
GOD
:
who
is
wholly
quieted
,
peace
being
made
betweene
him
and
vs
by
the
reconciliation
of
the
Lord
Iesus
,
who
is
the
meanes
,
by
the
vertue
of
his
death
,
and
preseruer
of
our
life
by
the
vertue
and
power
of
his
dietie
:
for
our
life
is
hid
in
him
,
&
our
death
is
buried
in
him
:
in
him
therefore
all
our
glory
consisteth
,
for
there
is
nothing
wherein
wee
may
glory
our selues
,
nor
our
works
,
but
onely
in
the
great
fauour
and
mercie
of
our
God
,
and
in
the
grace
and
mercie
of
our
Lorde
and
Sauiour
Iesus
Christ
.
Iohn
1.
Epist.
1.
Chap.
ver.
7.
The
blood
of
Jesus
Christ
cleanseth
vs
from
all
our
sinnes
.
ALthough
we
bee
guiltie
,
and
polluted
with
many
sinnes
,
which
are
in
the
eyes
of
the
Lorde
stayned
and
filthie
:
yet
the
holy
Apostle
doth
assure
vs
,
that
wee
are
washed
and
purified
from
them
,
not
by
any
counterfeite
water
of
mans
fancie
,
nor
by
a
fayned
imagination
of
fire
in
Purgatorie
,
in
any
other
worlde
,
neither
by
the
blood
of
Martyrs
,
as
some
haue
falsly
taught
,
but
only
by
the
precious
blood
of
the
Sonne
of
God
:
which
is
of
such
efficacie
,
and
continuall
vertue
,
that
he
can
blot
out
our
sinnes
perticularly
how
many
soeuer
they
be
.
Iohn
1.
Epist.
Chap.
2.
ver.
1.
If
any
man
sinne
,
wee
haue
an
aduocate
with
the
father
Iesus
Christ
the
rightuous
,
and
he
is
the
reconciliation
for
our
sinnes
,
and
not
for
ours
onely
,
but
also
the
sinnes
of
the
whole
world
.
THere
is
none
without
sinne
,
and
consequently
al
are
guiltie
before
GOD
:
yet
behold
the
Apostle
witnesseth
,
that
the
Lord
Iesus
Christ
doth
pray
,
and
make
request
for
vs
:
as
it
is
sayd
in
the
Epistle
to
the
Romaines
Chap.
8.
and
to
the
Heb.
Chap.
7.
which
intercession
betweene
God
and
man
was
of
such
force
and
vertue
,
that
no
others
but
he
was
found
worthie
and
able
to
make
vs
vnderstande
the
gentle
and
fauourable
goodwill
of
God
the
father
:
for
he
dyed
for
our
sinnes
,
&
vndertooke
to
make
an
agreement
and
reconciliation
for
our
misdeedes
to
God
:
which
excellent
and
worthy
desert
is
not
onely
restrayned
to
some
particuler
person
,
but
reacheth
to
all
generally
,
that
all
might
perceiue
the
loue
of
their
Redeemer
.
Iohn
1.
Epist.
Chap.
3.
ver.
10.
In
this
are
the
children
of
God
knowne
,
and
the
children
of
the
deuill
:
whosoeuer
doth
not
rightly
is
not
of
God
,
neither
he
that
loueth
not
his
brother
:
and
this
is
appoynted
a
reward
for
sinnes
.
THis
place
is
like
vnto
the
place
afore
rehearsed
,
contayning
more
fully
the
loue
,
and
mercifulnesse
of
GOD
towards
vs
,
in
that
he
hath
brought
vs
againe
vnto
him
by
his
welbeloued
Sonne
,
who
gaue
himselfe
for
vs
.
Of
faith
in
Christ
,
Ioh.
Cap.
3.
ver.
16.
God
so
loued
the
world
,
that
he
hath
giuen
his
onely
begotten
sonne
,
that
whosoeuer
beleeueth
in
him
should
not
perish
,
but
haue
life
euerlasting
.
THe
beginning
and
first
cause
of
our
saluation
is
in
GOD
,
who
in
his
mercie
and
fatherly
loue
saued
vs
.
The
second
is
in
Christ
,
who
by
the
merite
of
his
death
&
passion
redeemed
vs
:
the
onely
instrument
and
meanes
to
obtain
such
great
good
is
by
faith
in
Iesus
Christ
,
which
is
of
such
vertue
and
efficacie
,
that
by
it
man
is
reconciled
vnto
God
by
the
free
remission
of
sinne
:
wherfore
he
cannot
fall
vtterly
in
as
much
as
he
is
deliuered
from
eternall
death
,
and
made
partaker
of
an
happie
life
.
Iohn
.
Chap.
5.
vers.
24.
Verely
,
verely
I
say
vnto
you
,
he
that
heareth
my
words
and
beleeueth
in
him
that
sent
me
,
hath
euerlasting
life
:
and
shal
not
come
into
condemnation
,
but
passeth
from
death
to
life
.
THis
is
to
confirme
our selues
in
the
assurance
wee
haue
in
Christ
,
and
in
the
certaine
perswasion
of
his
doctrine
,
when
as
wee
doe
vnderstand
that
our
faith
resting
in
him
,
is
not
founded
vppon
a
mortall
man
,
but
on
the
very
and
true
sonne
of
God
,
wherefore
it
is
sayde
that
we
are
iustified
:
that
wee
are
sanctified
in
and
by
the
bloud
of
Christ
Iesus
.
Rom.
Chap.
3.
vers.
27.
we
be
absolued
from
our
sinnes
,
neither
can
bee
condemned
any
wise
,
beeing
so
warranted
by
him
,
which
is
eternall
,
by
whome
we
obtaine
life
and
felicitie
,
which
continueth
for
euer
.
Rom.
Chap.
10.
vers.
9.
If
thou
shalt
confesse
with
thy
mouth
the
Lord
Iesus
,
and
shalt
beleeue
in
thy
heart
that
God
raysed
him
vp
from
death
,
thou
shalt
be
saued
.
HOw
easie
the
way
of
saluation
is
vnto
vs
,
S.
Paule
sheweth
in
this
place
,
not
vsing
many
words
,
neither
sending
vs
backe
to
the
profound
and
deepe
secrets
of
almightie
God
,
but
giueth
vs
to
vnderstand
,
that
by
the
grace
of
God
which
is
in
vs
,
we
are
saued
if
so
be
we
hould
fast
the
faith
,
not
lightly
in
the
Braine
,
but
rooted
profoundly
in
the
heart
,
apprehending
perfectly
Iesus
Christ
:
which
once
died
for
our
sinnes
,
and
rose
againe
for
our
iustification
,
as
it
is
in
the
4.
Chap.
of
this
Epistle
.
And
although
the
confession
of
the
mouth
bee
required
:
which
principally
serueth
for
an
outward
testimony
,
and
a
manifest
declaration
of
the
hope
which
is
in
vs
,
yet
especially
wee
must
haue
the
heart
lyne
lye
touched
with
a
sure
perswasion
of
faith
,
whose
mouth
will
not
bee
stopped
.
Seeing
that
with
the
heart
we
beleeue
:
and
with
the
mouth
declare
our
iustification
,
&
as
the
Prophet
saith
in
116.
Psalme
.
vers
.
10.
I
haue
beleeued
,
and
therefore
I
haue
spoken
.
Acts
Chap.
10.
ver.
43.
To
him
do
all
the
Prophets
giue
witnesse
,
that
through
his
name
all
that
beleeue
in
him
might
receiue
remission
of
sinne
.
IT
is
then
by
the
meanes
of
faith
in
Christ
,
that
we
doe
obtaine
forgiuenesse
of
sinne
if
so
be
we
assure
and
rest
our selues
wholy
vppon
the
merrit
and
intercession
of
him
,
following
the
predictions
and
writings
not
only
of
the
Prophets
,
but
of
those
also
which
haue
Prophesied
in
the
vnitie
of
the
same
spirite
,
whereby
we
attaine
fully
all
the
promises
of
eternall
life
,
by
and
through
the
meanes
of
Christ
Iesus
,
and
let
this
be
for
a
full
confirmation
of
this
Article
.
Of
Repentance
.
FOr
so
much
as
the
grace
of
God
and
saluation
hath
appeared
to
al
men
,
to
the
end
we
might
giue
ouer
al
vnfaithfulnesse
and
worldly
desires
,
and
that
we
should
liue
iustly
in
all
christianitie
,
seeing
we
be
bought
by
the
bloud
of
the
immaculate
Lambe
Iesus
Christ
,
and
therefore
ought
to
bee
vnto
him
a
peculiar
people
,
giuen
vnto
all
good
workes
,
for
this
cause
we
must
take
great
heede
,
that
we
abuse
not
the
great
benignitie
and
long
sufferance
of
God
,
by
continuing
in
sinne
and
iniquitie
,
which
is
the
only
meanes
to
heape
vppon
vs
his
wrath
and
vengeaunce
to
our
condemnation
.
For
whensoeuer
we
erre
or
fall
into
sinne
,
whether
it
be
by
the
imperfection
of
our
nature
,
or
frailtie
of
our
flesh
(
sufficient
meanes
to
heape
the
burning
coles
of
Gods
seueritie
vpon
vs
,
if
in
iudgement
hee
should
stand
against
vs
)
yet
we
must
not
deferre
from
day
to
day
:
but
rent
our
heartes
not
our
garments
,
and
in
earnest
contrition
of
our
soules
,
and
sincere
repenting
by
confessing
our
miserable
estate
,
and
desirous
to
bee
loosed
from
the
heauie
burden
of
our
sinnes
,
shewe
all
duetie
and
amendement
of
life
.
For
as
saint
Cyprian
saith
,
that
the
first
degree
of
our
felicitie
,
is
to
commit
no
sinne
:
so
the
second
is
to
acknowledge
our
sinne
committed
.
Therefore
whensoeuer
we
fall
(
as
who
is
not
vncleane
in
the
eyes
of
his
Creator
:
And
the
righteous
man
sinneth
seauen
times
aday
)
yet
we
must
not
lye
groueling
on
the
ground
,
but
rayse
vp
our selues
by
faith
in
the
promises
of
God
,
&
in
the
hope
of
eternall
life
,
assuring
our selues
,
that
he
will
receiue
vs
to
mercie
,
and
spred
vpon
vs
his
grace
:
for
he
is
our
Shepheard
,
and
wee
shall
not
want
:
he
hath
placed
vs
as
a
signet
on
his
finger
,
and
printed
vs
in
the
palme
of
his
right
hand
,
so
that
none
shall
be
able
to
plucke
vs
of
,
or
blot
vs
out
of
his
remembrance
,
but
of
his
mercie
he
hath
regenerated
vs
,
and
made
vs
partakers
of
the
inward
washing
sealed
into
vs
in
the
outward
Baptisme
,
and
grafting
vs
into
the
bodie
of
Christ
by
receiuing
vs
into
his
Church
,
neuer
to
be
hereafter
excluded
from
his
grace
,
and
forgiuenesse
of
sinne
,
though
wee
fall
by
infirmitie
into
the
same
sinne
againe
:
which
may
bee
a
confutation
of
the
irronious
and
detestable
opinion
of
the
Nouations
,
renewed
by
certaine
Heritickes
in
our
time
,
but
sufficiently
reproued
and
condemned
by
the
fathers
out
of
the
word
of
God
:
For
seeing
the
promises
of
God
bee
made
onely
for
his
people
and
his
Church
,
through
grace
and
mercie
vnto
them
,
which
may
appeare
in
the
effects
of
the
same
,
by
notable
example
of
worthy
memorie
hereafter
declared
,
that
if
in
the
tyme
of
the
Law
and
old
Testament
,
GOD
hath
shewed
himselfe
fauourable
towards
those
,
which
of
good
wil
haue
drawne
themselues
towardes
him
:
how
much
more
will
hee
spred
abroade
the
bright
beames
of
his
mercie
to
vs
,
vnder
the
raigne
of
his
sonne
Iesus
Christ
,
by
whom
and
through
whom
he
maketh
vs
free
inheritours
of
the
treasures
of
his
grace
.
Let
vs
see
now
what
declaration
wee
haue
of
these
thinges
in
holy
Scripture
.
Deut.
Chap.
4.
ver.
30.
When
thou
art
in
tribulation
,
and
all
these
things
are
come
vpon
thee
,
if
thou
returne
to
the
Lord
thy
God
,
and
be
obedient
to
his
voyce
,
for
the
Lord
thy
God
is
a
mercifull
God
,
he
will
not
forsake
thee
,
neither
destroy
,
nor
forget
he
sware
to
thy
fathers
to
performe
it
.
MOses
speaketh
in
this
place
vnto
vs
vnder
the
person
of
the
people
of
Israel
,
that
thereby
wee
might
make
our selues
sure
,
that
if
by
the
vanities
of
our
mynde
wee
commit
Idolatrie
,
and
worship
strange
Gods
,
therby
corrupting
our selues
,
and
deseruing
the
wrath
of
our
God
vpon
vs
,
by
falling
into
diuers
euilles
and
calamities
:
yet
if
wee
repent
,
and
bee
displeased
with
our selues
in
hauing
offended
such
a
mercifull
GOD
,
and
desiring
to
serue
him
hereafter
in
holinesse
and
rightuousnesse
all
the
daies
of
our
life
,
he
will
cease
from
punishing
,
and
performe
his
promises
made
in
and
by
the
meditation
of
his
Sonne
Christ
Iesus
.
Psalm.
51.
ver.
19.
The
sacrifice
of
God
is
a
holy
spirite
,
a
contrite
and
broken
heart
,
O
Lorde
thou
wilt
not
despise
.
THese
are
the
wordes
of
Dauid
,
which
he
setteth
downe
as
a
patterne
and
example
of
a
true
penitent
man
,
strucken
by
the
spirit
of
God
,
who
declareth
vnto
vs
,
that
in
the
feeling
of
his
weakenes
and
vnworthines
,
he
is
ouercome
,
he
is
afflicted
in
his
soule
,
and
sorowfull
in
his
heart
,
complayning
for
his
sinnes
,
watering
his
couch
with
his
teares
,
greeuously
pained
lyeth
groning
all
the
day
long
,
he
repenteth
that
he
hath
done
amisse
,
he
humbleth
himselfe
before
his
God
in
Sackcloth
and
Ashes
:
This
is
the
man
whose
Sacrifice
the
Lorde
receiueth
,
whose
broken
and
contrite
hart
he
neuer
despiseth
:
who
pleaseth
him
more
then
all
the
Sacrifices
of
the
Beasts
that
haue
hornes
and
houfes
,
then
the
offrings
of
their
newe
Monies
,
and
the
giftes
of
high
and
proude
hippocrites
,
then
all
the
vanities
of
the
supersticious
Idolatours
,
which
thinke
to
honour
and
serue
him
with
any
faith
and
repentance
.
Prouer.
Chap.
28.
ver.
13.
He
that
hideth
his
sinnes
shall
not
prosper
,
but
he
that
confesseth
and
forsaketh
them
,
shall
haue
mercie
.
THe
holy
Ghost
doth
certifie
vs
here
,
that
although
there
can
no
euill
happen
vnto
him
,
which
humbleth
himself
before
God
by
acknowledging
his
sinne
,
and
that
there
is
grace
,
forgiuenesse
&
mercie
offered
to
those
which
feele
themselues
guilty
,
and
acknowledge
their
transgressions
,
asking
absolution
and
deliuerance
by
a
true
amendment
of
life
.
I
doe
thinke
this
place
of
Scripture
principally
to
be
touched
among
the
rest
,
because
the
holy
Ghost
of
purpose
setteth
it
downe
to
comfort
the
penitent
Sinner
,
which
are
very
sorie
that
they
haue
offended
so
heauenly
a
father
,
who
is
of
long
suffring
and
compassion
,
who
is
in
Scripture
named
the
God
of
all
comfort
and
consolation
:
and
therefore
they
will
not
hide
their
sinne
,
but
confesse
it
vnto
the
Lord
,
who
will
heale
all
their
infirmities
,
and
cleanse
them
from
their
sinnes
:
for
the
Lord
is
mercifull
vnto
al
such
as
call
vpon
him
,
yea
,
al
such
as
call
vpon
him
faithfully
.
Hast
thou
then
bene
a
blasphemer
,
a
robber
,
a
lyer
?
Hast
thou
giuen
thy selfe
to
Vsurie
?
Art
thou
couetous
?
Hast
thou
bene
a
Fornicator
?
an
Adulterer
?
If
thou
leaue
thy
blasphemie
,
forsake
thy
euill
doing
,
shun
couetousnes
as
a
Serpent
:
if
thou
flye
from
the
paths
of
the
strange
woman
,
and
the
delicious
pampering
of
the
belly
:
if
thou
flyest
from
euill
,
and
doest
the
thing
that
is
good
:
if
thou
abhorrest
the
bosome
of
the
light
woman
,
&
the
alluring
bed
of
the
Harlot
:
doubt
not
,
but
thy
sinnes
be
forgiuen
,
the
debt
payd
,
the
wrath
of
God
against
thee
is
pacified
by
the
sight
of
the
Lambe
which
standeth
on
the
Mount
.
Heare
the
wisedome
of
God
,
which
sayth
,
he
that
leaueth
his
sinne
shall
obtaine
mercie
:
Hast
thou
then
left
thy
wickednesse
?
Art
thou
become
a
newe
man
?
Hast
thou
amended
thy
euill
life
?
God
will
shewe
thee
mercie
and
compassion
:
we
neede
not
to
goe
farre
to
seeke
proofes
and
testimonies
of
the
grace
of
God
towards
vs
,
the
very
amendement
of
our
life
is
an
euident
demonstration
of
the
same
,
which
the
Prophet
Dauid
felt
in
the
32.
Psal:
when
he
sayth
,
then
I
acknowledged
my
sinne
vnto
thée
,
neither
did
I
hide
myne
iniquitie
:
for
I
thought
,
I
will
confesse
against
my selfe
my
wickednesse
vnto
the
Lord
,
and
thou
forgauest
the
punishment
of
my
fault
.
Therefore
shall
euery
one
that
is
godly
make
his
praier
vnto
thee
in
a
time
when
thou
maist
be
found
:
surely
the
flood
of
great
water
shall
not
come
nere
him
.
Thou
art
my
secret
place
,
thou
preseruest
me
from
my
trouble
,
and
compasses
me
about
with
ioyfull
deliuerance
.
Esay
Chap.
55.
ver.
7.
Seeke
ye
the
Lord
while
he
may
be
found
,
call
vpon
him
while
he
is
neere
.
Let
the
wicked
forsake
his
owne
waies
,
and
the
vnrightuous
his
owne
imaginations
,
and
returne
vnto
the
Lord
,
&
he
will
haue
mercie
vpon
him
,
for
he
is
ready
to
forgiue
.
For
my
thoughtes
are
not
as
your
thoughtes
,
neither
are
your
waies
as
my
waies
saith
the
Lorde
.
For
as
the
heauens
are
higher
then
the
earth
:
so
are
my
waies
higher
then
your
waies
,
and
my
thoughts
aboue
your
thoughts
.
ALthough
by
our
offences
we
estrange
and
withdrawe
our selues
greatly
from
God
,
he
is
neuerthelesse
nere
at
hand
if
we
draw
our selues
from
our
euill
and
sinfull
life
:
if
we
be
touched
with
a
true
repentance
:
if
wee
commit
our selues
vnto
him
:
if
we
call
vpon
him
with
all
our
hearts
,
&
with
all
our
soules
,
we
may
be
sure
he
wil
be
mercifull
vnto
vs
,
as
the
Prophet
sayth
.
And
although
our
sinnes
abound
,
yet
his
mercie
aboundeth
much
more
:
though
our
iniquities
(
as
we
thinke
)
are
infinite
,
and
without
pardon
,
not
esteeming
the
goodnes
and
clemencie
of
God
,
according
to
his
greatnesse
and
infinite
mercies
,
but
according
to
the
weaknesse
and
frailtie
of
our
vnderstanding
:
yet
wee
see
that
the
Lorde
sheweth
by
his
Prophet
,
that
his
thoughtes
and
his
workes
doe
surpasse
all
that
is
in
vs
,
or
can
come
from
vs
.
For
although
our
sinnes
were
in
number
as
the
sande
of
the
Sea
,
or
as
the
starres
of
Heauen
:
yet
we
know
that
he
holdeth
the
Sea
in
his
hand
,
and
calleth
the
Starres
by
their
names
:
for
as
the
Heauen
is
in
comparison
of
the
Earth
,
so
are
his
mercies
towards
all
that
call
vpon
him
.
Why
should
any
then
mistrust
the
benignitie
of
GOD
,
seeing
he
is
so
carefull
to
assure
vs
of
the
forgiuenesse
of
our
sinnes
,
whensoeuer
we
doe
call
vpon
him
.
Exech
.
Chap.
18.
ver.
21.
If
the
wicked
will
turne
from
his
sinnes
,
that
he
hath
committed
,
and
keepe
all
my
statutes
,
and
doe
all
that
is
lawfull
and
right
,
he
shal
surely
liue
,
and
not
dye
:
al
his
transgressions
which
he
hath
committed
shall
not
be
mentioned
vnto
him
.
Haue
J
any
desire
that
the
wicked
should
dye
,
saith
the
Lord
,
or
shall
hee
not
liue
if
he
retourne
from
his
waies
?
Therfore
returne
and
repent
you
for
your
transgressions
,
so
iniquitie
shall
not
bee
your
destruction
.
Cast
away
from
you
all
your
transgressions
,
wherby
you
haue
transgressed
,
and
make
you
a
newe
heart
,
and
a
newe
spirite
:
for
why
will
you
dye
O
house
of
Israel
.
THe
Lord
in
this
place
speaketh
not
directly
vnto
the
sinner
,
which
falleth
by
frailtie
and
weakenesse
of
flesh
,
but
to
the
wicked
,
which
of
mallice
and
crueltie
hath
robbed
and
shed
innocent
blood
,
who
hath
oppressed
the
needie
,
and
solde
the
poore
for
olde
shooes
,
who
hath
whined
after
his
neighbours
wife
,
&
hath
bene
partakers
with
the
Adulterers
:
which
haue
runned
from
Bethel
to
Dan
,
and
from
Dan
to
Bethel
to
serue
straunge
Gods
:
which
haue
sacrificed
of
their
owne
flesh
to
Molocke
,
and
haue
eaten
the
offringes
of
the
dead
:
to
these
which
●●●nke
sinne
as
water
,
and
drawe
iniquitie
with
cords
:
to
these
I
say
speaketh
the
Lord
,
and
telleth
them
,
that
if
they
doe
truely
repent
them
of
all
their
misdeedes
which
they
haue
committed
,
they
shal
neuer
be
imputed
to
them
againe
,
they
shall
be
deliuered
from
them
,
and
made
partakers
of
eternall
life
,
if
his
repentance
be
true
,
not
fained
,
but
yeelds
himself
wholly
to
serue
his
God
,
though
his
obedience
be
imperfect
,
and
there
bee
some
want
in
him
:
yet
hee
shall
bee
washed
in
the
blood
of
the
Lambe
,
by
his
woundes
he
shall
be
healed
,
and
in
his
weakenesse
he
shall
bee
made
strong
:
he
shal
be
holy
,
because
he
which
hath
called
him
is
holy
.
And
in
this
respect
are
Christians
called
oftentymes
iust
in
holy
Scripture
,
though
there
bee
some
imperfections
in
them
daylie
to
bee
seene
,
yet
this
is
shewed
to
declare
the
wonderful
and
great
bountie
and
clemencie
of
God
towards
vs
,
that
hauing
offended
him
in
breaking
his
ordinaunces
,
and
so
made
guiltie
of
eternall
death
:
yet
that
he
vouchsafeth
to
call
vs
againe
vnto
him
,
and
to
stretch
forth
his
arme
all
the
day
long
to
take
vs
vp
when
we
were
fallen
,
and
exhorteth
vs
to
repentaunce
,
and
to
newnesse
of
life
,
which
is
the
token
and
euident
testimonie
of
a
true
conuersion
and
newe
regeneration
by
the
holy
Ghost
.
And
whereas
he
commaundeth
vs
to
repent
,
adding
a
promise
of
life
and
saluation
,
he
sheweth
that
hee
would
haue
vs
touched
to
the
quicke
,
and
truely
sorie
for
our
faultes
committed
,
with
firme
and
stedfast
purpose
to
liue
better
in
time
to
come
:
so
that
here
wee
may
knowe
what
kinde
of
man
he
is
,
which
shall
not
perish
,
but
shall
haue
eternall
life
,
according
to
this
promise
.
Zach.
Chap.
1.
ver.
3.
Returne
you
vnto
me
saith
the
Lord
of
hosts
,
and
J
will
returne
vnto
you
.
HEre
is
an
other
exhortation
to
repentance
ioyned
with
the
promise
and
reconciliation
to
God
,
very
like
vnto
that
before
.
Math.
Chap.
4.
ver.
17.
Amend
your
liues
for
the
kingdome
of
heauen
is
at
hand
.
THis
is
the
first
exhortation
that
the
Lord
made
to
the
people
of
Israel
,
agreeable
to
that
where
Iohn
Baptist
admonisheth
euery
one
to
repentance
and
amendement
of
life
:
which
that
they
may
the
better
performe
,
he
addeth
this
reason
and
promise
,
that
the
grace
of
God
,
the
remission
of
sinnes
,
and
the
reconciliation
with
God
,
is
present
and
neere
to
them
by
the
preaching
of
the
Gospell
,
which
is
here
called
the
kingdome
of
God
:
for
by
this
meanes
the
tyranny
of
Sathan
is
destroyed
and
ouerthrowne
:
the
force
of
sinne
dead
:
the
kingdome
of
Christ
gloriously
extolled
and
lift
vp
on
hye
,
raigning
in
the
hearts
of
those
,
which
by
his
spirite
haue
felt
the
vertue
vnto
newnesse
of
life
,
a
sufficient
token
to
assure
vs
in
this
life
to
be
made
partakers
of
his
inheritaunce
in
the
life
to
come
.
Math.
Chap.
9.13
.
J
am
not
come
to
call
the
rightuous
,
but
sinners
to
repentaunce
.
THis
is
the
answer
of
our
Sauiour
made
to
the
Pharisies
,
who
finding
themselues
offended
that
he
and
his
companie
did
eate
with
Publicanes
and
Harlots
,
with
sinfull
and
leaud
liuers
,
thought
him
a
glutton
and
lose
fellowe
.
For
these
men
counting
them selues
onely
the
people
of
GOD
,
erred
and
corrupted
themselues
,
in
such
a
sorte
,
that
they
accounted
all
other
vtterly
profayne
.
Whereupon
our
Sauiour
Christ
sheweth
wherefore
he
leaueth
their
companies
,
who
so
much
iustified
themselues
,
and
betaketh
himselfe
and
all
his
to
poore
sinners
,
though
they
were
wicked
and
euill
in
life
,
that
by
this
meanes
he
might
drawe
them
from
their
vice
and
iniquities
,
and
bring
them
into
the
right
way
.
To
those
then
,
which
doe
repent
of
their
sinnes
,
appertayneth
the
grace
of
God
,
for
repentance
is
the
very
effect
of
the
sonne
of
God
,
which
bringeth
saluation
vnto
all
people
.
Acts
3.
ver.
19.
Amend
your
liues
therefore
and
turne
,
that
your
sinnes
may
be
put
away
.
THose
to
whom
Peter
spake
in
this
place
,
had
put
and
deliuered
to
death
the
holie
and
the
iust
,
the
Prince
of
life
,
that
is
to
say
,
our
Lorde
Iesus
Christ
:
yet
he
exhorteth
them
to
a
godly
conuersation
of
life
,
promising
that
their
sinnes
shall
bee
forgiuen
them
,
so
that
the
grace
of
God
is
shewed
forth
to
all
men
,
whom
the
Lorde
counteth
by
putting
from
them
their
iniquities
.
Acts
Chap.
5.
ver.
31.
This
is
that
Jesus
whome
GOD
hath
lift
vp
with
his
right
hand
to
bee
a
Prince
and
a
Sauiour
,
to
giue
repentaunce
of
sinnes
to
Jsrael
,
and
forgiuenes
of
sinnes
.
THis
is
spoken
to
this
ende
,
that
the
Lord
Iesus
hath
brought
vs
vnto
saluation
by
repentaunce
,
which
is
neuer
seperated
from
the
forgiuenes
of
sinne
.
1.
Cor.
Chap.
7.
ver.
10.
Godly
sorowe
causeth
repentance
to
saluation
.
THe
profayne
and
wicked
men
continually
doe
reioyce
in
their
wickednesse
,
and
harden
their
harts
in
their
sinnes
,
neuer
ceasing
till
their
accursed
ioye
bee
turned
into
weeping
and
gnashing
of
teeth
,
by
the
iust
and
feareful
iudgement
of
God
,
who
casteth
all
such
into
vtter
perdition
:
but
they
,
which
haue
the
feare
of
God
,
after
that
they
haue
done
amisse
in
any
sorte
bee
greatly
sorie
in
heart
,
weeping
and
lamenting
that
haue
offended
such
a
gracious
God
,
and
alwaies
suffer
extreme
greifes
because
they
offended
him
,
in
breaking
his
commandements
.
The
rulers
which
had
the
ouersight
of
the
church
of
Corinth
,
beeing
reprehended
by
S.
Paule
for
their
slouthfulnes
and
slownes
,
in
not
acquitting
themselues
from
the
slaunders
,
which
was
reported
of
them
,
had
for
this
thing
such
a
displeasure
and
sorowe
in
themselues
,
that
the
Apostle
thought
it
commodious
&
profitable
for
their
saluation
.
On
which
example
he
draweth
this
excellent
and
notable
sentence
,
that
the
sorowe
,
which
is
according
to
the
will
of
God
for
offending
him
in
neglecting
the
charge
committed
to
vs
,
is
profitable
.
And
this
is
drawne
by
an
vsuall
fashion
,
to
bring
the
offendor
to
repentaunce
,
and
to
induce
a
man
into
an
ardent
desire
to
do
better
in
tyme
to
come
:
which
is
the
way
and
perfect
meanes
to
come
into
the
porte
of
saluation
:
for
such
a
kinde
of
repentaunce
none
ought
to
bee
displeased
,
but
rather
bee
glad
and
reioyce
for
it
.
Ioh.
1.
Epist.
Chap.
1.
ver.
9.
If
wee
acknowledge
our
sinnes
,
he
is
faithfull
and
iust
to
forgiue
vs
,
&
to
cleanse
vs
from
all
our
vnrightuousnesse
.
AS
the
poore
sicke
man
ought
to
declare
his
disease
to
the
Phisition
,
therby
to
receiue
helpe
of
his
griefe
:
euen
so
ought
wee
in
like
maner
to
acknowledge
the
spirituall
desire
of
the
soule
before
God
,
not
that
hee
is
ignorant
of
them
,
or
that
hee
hath
neede
of
any
aduertisement
:
but
to
this
ende
,
that
we
may
beare
witnesse
of
our
sorrowfull
repentaunce
and
humilitie
,
which
shall
neuer
be
without
forgiuenes
of
sinnes
,
apprehending
the
promises
of
God
,
who
infallably
will
fulfill
his
workes
,
beeing
true
and
iust
in
all
his
promises
.
Of
Prayer
.
THe
great
and
wonderfull
bountie
of
God
is
shewed
,
when
he
vouchsafeth
to
open
the
heauens
vnto
vs
poore
wretched
creatures
of
the
earth
,
making
vs
fit
to
enter
into
his
glorious
kingdome
,
laying
downe
his
eare
to
heare
and
vnderstand
our
desires
and
requestes
,
and
exalting
the
prayers
which
we
make
to
him
in
our
need
,
at
such
tyme
as
we
be
most
poore
and
miserable
,
and
in
greatest
daunger
:
but
the
care
he
hath
of
vs
,
and
how
much
he
loueth
vs
is
seene
in
this
,
that
hee
himselfe
warneth
and
stirreth
vs
vp
,
by
teaching
vs
to
pray
,
with
assurance
that
he
will
graunt
vs
our
requests
,
which
he
fulfilleth
when
wee
truely
require
him
of
his
grace
,
goodnesse
,
&
mercie
,
wherof
wee
haue
manifould
testimonies
in
the
word
of
GOD
,
which
we
will
set
downe
as
worth
the
noting
.
Psal.
50.
ver.
15.
Call
vppon
me
in
tyme
of
trouble
,
and
I
will
helpe
thee
,
and
thou
shalt
honor
me
.
ALthough
the
time
when
in
our
soules
we
are
afflicted
by
feeling
our
sinne
,
or
otherwise
be
in
tribulation
or
payne
,
or
some
perrill
or
daunger
:
may
threaten
vs
that
our
God
is
offended
with
vs
,
and
will
destroye
vs
:
yet
he
promiseth
vs
by
the
Prophet
Dauid
to
deliuer
vs
from
all
euill
,
if
so
wee
honor
him
,
and
earnestly
desire
in
our
prayers
to
haue
him
our
aide
,
and
refuge
in
our
trouble
.
Psal.
145.
ver.
18.
The
Lord
is
neere
to
all
that
call
vppon
him
,
yea
to
all
that
call
vppon
him
in
trueth
,
he
will
fulfill
the
desire
of
those
that
feare
him
,
and
will
heare
their
crye
and
saue
them
.
ALbeit
sometyme
it
may
seeme
that
God
should
bee
farre
from
vs
,
in
that
he
doth
not
so
visibly
appeare
vnto
vs
,
as
he
is
wont
,
yet
we
may
be
sure
that
he
is
not
farre
of
,
if
with
our
whole
heart
and
affection
we
pray
vnto
him
,
if
wee
bee
moued
by
the
feare
and
reuerence
of
his
name
,
to
obeye
him
:
if
wee
call
vpon
him
in
this
sorte
,
he
will
exalt
vs
,
and
will
deliuer
vs
from
all
our
sinnes
.
Psal.
6.
ver.
1.
O
Lord
rebuke
me
not
in
thine
anger
,
neither
chasten
me
in
thy
heauie
displeasure
:
haue
mercie
vpon
me
for
I
am
weake
,
O
Lorde
heale
me
for
my
bones
are
brused
:
my
soule
is
sore
troubled
,
but
Lorde
how
long
wilt
thou
delay
.
Returne
O
Lorde
deliuer
my
soule
,
saue
me
for
thy
mercie
sake
:
for
in
death
there
is
no
remembrance
of
thee
,
and
in
the
graue
who
shall
praise
thee
.
FOr
as
much
as
Dauid
sayth
in
the
34.
Psalme
,
that
the
eyes
of
the
Lorde
are
vpon
the
iust
,
and
his
eares
are
readie
to
heare
their
mone
,
in
harkening
vnto
them
when
they
crye
,
and
deliuering
them
from
al
their
tribulations
:
and
least
some
men
might
thinke
,
that
poore
sinners
are
cast
away
from
God
,
and
he
wil
not
vouchsafe
to
heare
their
requestes
,
wee
heare
the
Prophet
Dauid
praying
vnto
him
,
not
as
a
iust
man
,
but
as
one
feeling
himselfe
greatly
guiltie
of
his
infirmities
,
as
it
is
plainly
shewed
in
the
38.
Psalm
:
of
the
like
sort
also
is
it
when
he
confesseth
his
iniquities
to
haue
ouerwhelmed
him
,
which
like
a
burthen
is
heauier
then
he
is
able
to
beare
:
For
all
this
,
yet
he
testifieth
that
although
he
were
poore
and
miserable
,
by
reason
of
his
sinnes
,
yet
God
had
accepted
his
prayers
,
and
taken
pitie
and
compassion
on
him
.
Psalm.
86.
ver.
3.
Be
mercifull
vnto
me
O
Lord
,
for
J
crye
vnto
thee
continually
,
reioyce
the
soule
of
thy
seruant
,
for
vnto
thee
O
Lord
do
I
lift
vp
my
head
.
For
thou
O
Lord
art
good
,
mercifull
,
and
of
great
kindnesse
to
all
them
that
call
vpon
thee
.
DAuid
beeing
in
calamitie
,
desired
of
God
to
bee
restored
in
his
soule
,
putting
the
assurance
of
his
prayers
vppon
the
naturall
loue
of
God
,
who
is
by
nature
gentle
,
and
mercifull
,
according
to
his
promise
:
yea
,
he
is
the
very
selfe
same
foundation
,
vpon
which
the
poore
afflicted
ought
to
comfort
and
reioyce
themselues
in
heart
and
soule
,
and
by
feruent
prayer
vnto
God
be
deliuered
from
their
iniquities
.
Ioel
Chap.
2.
ver.
32.
Whosoeuer
calleth
vpon
the
name
of
the
Lord
shall
be
saued
.
AS
faith
is
neuer
without
repentance
,
so
it
cannot
bee
without
helpe
,
goodnesse
,
and
soueraigne
power
of
God
,
by
calling
vpon
him
according
to
his
promises
,
to
the
ende
wee
may
get
his
fauour
and
grace
,
which
is
here
promised
vnto
vs
,
as
a
consolation
and
comforte
in
the
greatest
miserie
and
affliction
that
we
haue
:
whosoeuer
then
of
what
condition
or
estate
he
bee
,
whether
rich
or
poore
,
great
or
small
,
that
doth
acknowledge
his
omnipotent
and
infinite
power
,
if
he
humble
himselfe
before
his
Maiestie
,
and
heartely
pray
him
for
mercie
,
let
him
assure
himselfe
that
he
shall
bee
exalted
,
and
that
God
will
be
fauourable
vnto
him
.
Iohn
Chap.
16.
ver.
23.
Verely
,
verely
J
say
vnto
you
,
whatsoeuer
you
shall
aske
my
father
in
my
name
he
shall
giue
it
you
,
aske
and
you
shall
receiue
,
that
your
ioye
may
be
full
.
THis
is
the
Sonne
of
God
our
Sauiour
Christ
which
speaketh
,
and
maketh
vs
certaine
that
our
prayers
are
exalted
:
not
for
our
owne
worthinesse
,
but
by
his
fauour
:
not
by
the
desert
of
any
creature
either
in
heauen
or
earth
,
but
in
and
for
his
sake
onely
,
who
is
our
aduocate
and
redeemer
.
Vpon
this
confidence
he
doth
warne
and
teach
vs
to
pray
vnto
his
father
with
this
promise
,
that
we
shall
neuer
bee
sent
emptie
away
,
but
after
this
mortalitie
hath
put
on
immortalitie
,
this
corruption
shal
put
on
incorruption
:
we
shall
be
receiued
into
ioy
and
consolation
for
euer
.
Ion
1.
Epist.
Chap.
5.
ver.
14.
This
is
the
assurance
that
we
haue
of
GOD
,
that
if
wee
aske
any
thing
according
to
his
will
,
he
will
heare
vs
.
And
if
we
know
that
he
heareth
vs
,
whatsoeuer
we
aske
,
we
know
that
we
shal
obtaine
,
that
we
haue
desired
of
him
.
WE
cannot
be
in
doubt
when
we
come
to
God
in
our
prayers
grounded
on
his
commaundements
and
promise
,
but
that
we
shall
be
heard
and
receiue
such
things
as
we
want
,
which
condemneth
those
men
that
call
vpon
strange
Gods
:
yea
,
on
those
which
are
no
Gods
,
and
pray
to
those
which
are
departed
out
of
this
life
,
who
can
haue
no
certaintie
of
their
prayers
.
But
wee
must
bee
certaine
,
that
GOD
doth
hearken
vnto
vs
when
wee
pray
to
him
,
as
wee
are
taught
in
his
holy
worde
:
for
he
hath
promised
to
giue
and
graunt
vs
such
things
as
we
aske
him
,
being
necessary
and
conformable
vnto
his
will
,
which
are
the
meanes
whereby
he
vseth
to
doe
vs
good
,
and
to
giue
vs
his
grace
in
full
and
conuenient
tyme
.
Rom.
Chap.
8.
ver.
26.
Likewise
the
spirite
also
helpeth
our
infirmities
,
for
wee
knowe
not
how
to
pray
as
wee
ought
,
but
the
spirite
maketh
request
for
vs
with
sighings
,
which
cannot
bee
expressed
,
but
he
which
searcheth
knoweth
what
is
the
meaning
of
the
spirite
,
seing
he
maketh
requestes
for
the
Saincts
according
to
the
will
of
God
.
AS
by
the
holy
Ghost
wee
are
lead
to
the
true
knowledge
of
our
saluation
:
so
by
it
we
are
made
certaine
of
the
same
,
being
the
seale
and
earnest
of
our
inheritaunce
,
which
testifieth
with
our
Spirite
,
that
wee
be
the
sonnes
of
God
in
that
wee
hate
all
euill
,
and
on
the
contrary
take
pleasure
in
the
lawes
of
the
Lord
.
For
it
is
the
Spirit
which
comforteth
vs
in
our
affliction
,
and
strengthned
vs
in
our
weaknesse
,
in
making
vs
beare
paciently
the
burden
of
our
tribulation
and
aduersities
:
in
so
much
,
that
our
affections
being
at
variance
among
themselues
,
&
many
tymes
slowe
to
prayer
,
are
yet
stirred
vp
by
the
holy
Ghost
,
who
teacheth
vs
to
stay
our selues
vpon
the
promises
,
that
we
are
to
aske
of
God
with
desire
and
earnest
affection
of
heart
,
which
cannot
bee
declared
in
wordes
.
By
this
meanes
are
our
prayers
exalted
to
God
,
and
accoumpted
iust
and
reasonable
,
being
made
by
the
holy
Ghost
,
which
is
the
Spirite
of
God
,
God
who
acknowledgeth
and
accepteth
that
which
is
his
,
and
proceedeth
from
him
by
giuing
vs
deliuerance
,
and
adiudge
vs
vnto
saluation
.
Seing
then
that
our
prayers
ought
to
bee
ordered
according
vnto
the
will
of
God
,
and
done
in
such
sinceritie
and
singlenes
of
heart
,
we
may
comfort
our selues
in
the
vertue
of
his
grace
,
and
operation
of
the
holy
Ghost
.
To
this
is
added
that
,
which
the
Apostle
teacheth
in
this
Chapter
,
that
by
the
spirite
of
adoption
wee
may
boldly
crye
abba
father
.
In
this
maner
then
ought
wee
to
aske
in
faith
,
and
certaintie
without
doubting
,
(
as
S.
Iames
exhorteth
vs
)
being
founded
vpon
the
assuraunce
,
that
wee
haue
of
the
fatherly
goodnesse
of
God
towards
vs
,
by
the
holy
Ghost
.
Parables
,
&
similitudes
of
the
grace
&
mercie
of
God
towards
poore
sinners
,
which
do
repent
them selues
.
IT
is
manifest
not
onely
by
all
the
sayinges
which
heretofore
are
shewed
,
and
other
places
of
holy
Scripture
to
the
same
purpose
,
touching
the
grace
of
God
proffered
vnto
vs
by
the
forgiuenes
of
our
sinnes
:
but
also
by
certaine
Parables
and
Similitudes
,
which
serue
vs
as
promises
,
and
which
our
Sauiour
Christ
hath
vsed
for
our
comfort
:
as
we
may
reade
in
the
15.
of
S.
Luke
.
The
first
is
of
the
Sheepe
that
went
astray
,
and
was
lost
in
the
wildernes
,
whome
the
Sheepheard
seeketh
earnestly
,
and
finding
it
,
taketh
it
vpon
his
shoulders
,
bringeth
it
home
,
and
reioyceth
more
ouer
that
one
,
then
for
the
nintie
and
nine
which
he
had
:
in
like
sorte
(
saith
our
Sauiour
)
is
it
in
Heauen
,
for
one
sinner
that
repenteth
him selfe
.
Hath
sinne
then
deceiued
thee
?
hath
it
caried
thee
away
from
the
flocke
of
Christ
,
and
made
thee
stray
from
the
right
path
?
Art
thou
in
the
middest
of
a
Desert
,
in
daunger
of
a
roring
Lyon
,
the
enemie
to
thy
saluation
?
Withdrawe
thy selfe
betimes
,
and
recant
of
thy
straying
,
and
goe
to
thy
flocke
,
least
thou
perish
vtterly
:
returne
vnto
thy
soueraigne
Sheepheard
Iesus
Christ
,
which
will
bee
gentle
vnto
thee
,
neither
stande
in
doubt
but
that
he
wil
receiue
thee
,
if
thou
returne
to
him
,
seing
he
goeth
seeking
and
calling
those
which
goe
astraye
to
bring
them
into
his
fould
:
and
when
thou
art
returned
be
not
afrayde
,
but
be
sure
of
thy
saluation
,
and
reioyce
,
for
the
Angels
in
heauen
reioyce
for
thee
.
Luke
.
Chap.
16.
ver.
18.
As
a
woman
which
hath
lost
a
peece
of
siluer
,
after
she
hath
found
it
againe
reioyceth
:
so
doth
the
Angels
of
God
for
a
sinner
which
doth
repent
.
ALthough
we
lose
our selues
by
our
owne
fault
,
&
bee
guiltie
of
our
estraying
from
God
:
yet
for
all
this
he
houldeth
vs
so
deare
and
precious
,
and
hath
such
care
of
vs
,
that
he
will
neuer
forget
vs
,
but
prouideth
for
our
saluation
,
bringeth
vs
to
himselfe
,
keepes
vs
as
his
owne
,
euen
as
though
he
should
keepe
some
excellent
treasure
:
for
which
the
celestiall
and
heauenly
Angels
doe
sing
for
ioye
and
gladnesse
.
Luke
Chap.
15.
ver.
11.12
.
BY
the
goodnesse
of
the
father
towardes
his
prodigall
sonne
,
our
Sauiour
sheweth
the
great
clemencie
of
God
our
celestial
father
towards
poore
sinners
,
which
conuert
themselues
vnto
him
.
If
by
the
lightnes
and
foolishnesse
of
our
mindes
,
and
by
the
vanities
of
our
harts
we
haue
abused
the
goodnes
of
God
,
either
temporally
or
spiritually
,
&
by
our
owne
meanes
are
drawne
from
his
commaundements
in
slouthfull
and
dissolute
life
,
and
so
fallen
into
confusion
,
by
feeling
our
pouertie
and
miserie
?
let
vs
not
feare
to
turne
againe
to
our
God
with
true
humblenes
,
acknowledging
our
misdeedes
,
seeing
he
is
gentle
and
mercifull
,
he
will
receiue
vs
as
his
children
,
he
will
clothe
vs
with
his
benefites
and
spirituall
graces
,
with
all
ioye
and
mirth
.
By
the
Parable
and
Similitude
of
the
Publicane
,
acknowledging
himself
a
poore
sinner
,
standing
a
farre
of
,
and
thinking
him selfe
vnworthie
to
lift
vp
his
eyes
to
heauen
,
striking
his
breastes
,
and
bewayling
that
he
had
neglected
the
mercies
of
God
:
our
Sauiour
makes
vs
certaine
,
and
perswades
vs
of
the
iustification
and
mercie
for
our
sinnes
,
if
truely
we
feele
our selues
guiltie
:
if
we
be
beaten
and
humbled
in
our
harts
:
if
we
haue
a
true
displeasure
,
and
are
sorie
that
we
haue
offended
our
God
:
if
wee
be
so
touched
,
wee
shall
finde
him
gentle
and
quiet
towards
vs
.
Worthy
examples
touching
the
great
mercie
of
God
towards
poore
sinners
.
ALthough
many
promises
and
excellent
proofes
be
here
set
before
vs
,
as
sufficient
to
quiet
the
conscience
of
euery
one
:
notwithstanding
it
shall
be
needefull
to
set
forth
some
examples
,
for
more
certaintie
and
confirmation
of
the
same
,
seeing
that
such
examples
and
instructions
do
stirre
vs
vp
the
more
to
consider
better
of
the
matter
.
Wherefore
,
as
in
our
first
father
Adam
sinne
began
to
appeare
:
so
in
him
also
God
shewed
the
first
token
of
mercie
,
when
he
saw
him
lost
and
fallen
into
death
,
he
was
carefull
to
raise
him
and
set
him
vp
againe
,
his
clemencie
he
shewed
there
to
be
so
much
the
greater
,
and
his
goodnes
declared
it selfe
so
much
openly
:
for
after
he
had
done
so
much
good
,
and
shewed
him
such
fauour
to
create
him
after
his
own
likenesse
,
hauing
committed
to
him
the
sole
authoritie
and
dominion
of
all
things
which
are
vnder
heauen
,
onely
aduertising
him
to
obedience
,
which
he
ought
in
trueth
to
haue
performed
:
yet
among
all
these
things
so
easie
,
he
lendeth
his
eares
to
the
craftinesse
of
Sathan
,
rather
then
to
the
voyce
of
his
God
,
and
at
the
length
fell
into
infidelitie
and
vnthankfulnes
towards
him
:
yet
he
left
him
not
,
nor
gaue
him
ouer
in
such
euilles
,
but
goeth
after
him
,
although
he
had
despised
and
offended
him
so
much
,
neither
stayeth
he
till
Adam
came
to
seeke
him
:
yea
,
the
Lorde
goeth
first
to
finde
him
,
not
to
auenge
himself
,
or
to
chide
him
by
hard
reprehensions
,
as
in
good
right
he
might
doe
,
but
to
bring
him
to
the
knowledge
of
his
sinne
,
and
to
giue
him
helpe
for
his
saluation
.
Oh
the
goodnesse
of
God
,
how
marueilous
and
how
wonderfull
are
his
doinges
,
his
mercie
is
excellent
and
great
:
for
who
knoweth
not
that
where
iniquitie
aboundeth
,
there
his
grace
aboundeth
much
more
.
The
sinne
of
Lot
was
no
light
sinne
in
committing
incest
(
without
thinking
on
it
)
with
his
owne
daughters
,
yet
God
had
mercie
on
him
,
(
as
S.
Peter
testifieth
)
calling
him
a
iust
man
,
not
in
respect
of
the
abhominable
deede
,
but
because
of
the
grace
of
God
which
shewed
it self
in
him
,
for
the
iust
works
and
godlinesse
,
that
were
in
him
all
his
life
tyme
.
Iacob
hath
not
bene
guiltles
,
for
defiling
himselfe
by
incest
with
his
two
wiues
being
sisters
:
yet
God
ceased
not
to
continue
his
grace
and
fauour
towardes
him
,
following
the
promise
made
to
his
posteritie
for
euer
.
The
xij
.
Patriarks
the
children
of
Iacob
,
are
accused
for
many
diuers
great
faultes
and
misdeedes
:
as
Ruben
the
first
borne
defiled
his
fathers
bed
with
Bilha
one
of
his
Concubines
.
Iuda
did
the
like
with
Thamar
his
daughter
in
lawe
,
and
although
he
knewe
her
not
,
yet
he
is
not
excused
.
Simeon
and
Leuy
,
shewed
themselues
altogether
vnfaithfull
,
disloyall
,
cruell
,
and
bloodie
in
the
murther
of
the
Shechimites
.
The
other
brethren
mooued
with
wrath
,
and
fed
with
hatered
,
were
like
murthers
on
Ioseph
their
younger
brother
,
they
were
so
impudent
and
without
humanitie
,
that
they
cared
not
to
afflict
their
old
father
,
by
making
him
thinke
that
some
wild
beast
had
deuoured
his
sonne
and
their
brother
Ioseph
:
notwithstanding
,
for
all
their
misdeedes
,
God
hath
bene
mercifull
and
blessed
them
.
The
sinne
of
Aaron
is
in
no
wise
to
be
excused
,
although
he
had
this
honour
of
God
to
beare
his
worde
with
his
brother
Moses
to
the
people
of
Israel
,
and
before
the
King
of
Egipt
,
being
ordayned
an
high
Priest
,
a
ruler
of
his
Church
in
the
seruice
was
instituted
by
the
lawe
:
yet
he
became
so
slouthfull
of
so
small
courage
,
that
he
suffered
himselfe
to
bee
guided
by
the
affection
of
the
blinde
people
,
ignorant
,
and
supersticious
,
and
not
onely
consented
to
them
in
their
wicked
interprice
,
but
he
himselfe
became
a
workman
and
founder
of
their
Idoll
,
and
a
minister
to
their
Idolatrie
,
setting
vp
the
Alter
,
and
appoynting
a
feast
to
be
solemnized
for
the
seruice
of
their
Calfe
:
for
which
Moses
his
brother
reproued
him
very
sharply
,
as
though
he
had
bene
onely
the
cause
of
this
euill
:
for
he
had
by
this
meanes
destituted
,
and
disapointed
the
people
of
the
grace
of
God
,
who
was
readie
to
giue
them
ouer
into
the
handes
of
their
enemies
:
as
we
may
reade
in
Deut.
9.
Chap.
vers
.
22.
Yet
his
wrath
was
pacified
,
neither
ceased
he
to
continue
his
goodnesse
towards
him
,
but
raised
and
established
him
to
the
office
of
the
high
Priest
.
It
happened
also
that
afterward
he
committed
a
great
fault
,
when
he
contented
not
himselfe
with
the
great
office
of
the
high
Priest
,
which
was
graunted
him
and
his
sonnes
for
euer
,
but
enuied
his
brother
Moses
,
accusing
him
as
an
vsurper
,
in
taking
on
him
the
gouernement
of
the
people
,
for
which
hee
esteemed
himselfe
as
worthie
as
Moses
was
.
For
which
cause
,
though
the
Lord
was
angrie
against
him
,
and
his
Sister
,
and
stroke
them
with
Leaprosie
for
the
space
of
seauen
daies
,
(
a
iust
punishment
for
such
a
quarrell
)
yet
he
vsed
so
great
clemencie
towards
them
,
that
his
wrath
went
no
farther
,
and
healed
them
.
After
that
Dauid
had
concealed
his
flight
from
Saul
vnto
Abimilecke
,
and
reporting
not
the
trueth
,
was
some
cause
that
85
Priestes
were
put
to
death
by
the
commaundement
of
Saule
,
their
townes
were
destroyed
and
sacked
,
and
all
the
dwellers
therein
passed
on
the
edge
of
the
sworde
,
both
men
,
women
and
children
.
Afterward
being
placed
in
the
Crowne
by
the
singuler
grace
of
God
,
who
had
deliuered
him
from
so
many
daungers
,
and
made
him
happely
to
raigne
,
and
fought
so
many
worthie
victories
,
conquering
all
Gods
and
his
enemies
in
the
lande
,
made
them
tributaries
to
him
:
yet
when
the
Soldiours
fought
against
the
Ammonites
,
and
besieged
the
Citie
of
Rabba
,
the
Arke
of
the
Lorde
beeing
in
Campe
,
he
began
to
liue
in
ease
and
pleasure
,
remayning
quietly
in
Ierusalem
,
at
which
tyme
he
committed
adulterie
with
Bethsabeth
,
not
by
the
infirmitie
of
the
flesh
,
as
if
had
not
other
meanes
to
satisfie
his
incontinencie
,
and
to
quench
the
heate
of
his
lust
:
but
by
a
disordered
desire
,
which
made
him
commit
whoredome
with
his
Subiects
wife
:
and
this
also
made
his
sinne
much
more
greeuous
,
considering
the
tyme
wherein
he
should
haue
bestowed
him selfe
in
praier
for
the
good
estate
of
his
kingdome
,
and
the
Arke
of
God
:
neither
was
he
so
satisfied
,
(
but
cloked
sinne
with
sinne
)
for
he
caused
Vrias
his
faithfull
subiect
to
bee
murthered
by
the
enemies
of
God
,
thereby
to
couer
the
sinne
of
adulterie
:
but
after
hee
knewe
his
sinne
,
and
God
had
receiued
him
to
mercie
,
he
repented
him
of
his
misdeedes
,
and
receiued
grace
and
fauour
from
the
Lord
.
Great
and
filthie
were
the
sinnes
of
Manasse
the
King
of
Iuda
:
for
he
builded
vp
the
high
places
that
his
father
Ezechias
had
plucked
downe
,
and
worshipped
the
Planets
as
the
Sunne
,
the
Moone
,
and
the
Starres
,
and
prophaned
the
walles
of
the
Temple
with
the
Alters
that
he
caused
to
bee
built
,
following
al
the
abhominations
of
the
Gentiles
,
he
burnt
his
sonnes
in
the
fire
looking
himself
on
them
:
he
receiued
Sorcerers
,
and
familiar
Spirites
:
he
vsed
Witchcraft
,
and
set
vp
grauen
Images
in
the
house
of
God
,
expresly
against
the
commaundement
of
the
Law
:
neither
did
he
this
himselfe
,
but
caused
the
people
also
to
goe
astray
and
do
the
like
:
and
which
is
more
,
he
reiecteth
the
attonement
which
was
made
vnto
him
and
his
fathers
,
but
gaue
himselfe
more
and
more
vnto
euill
,
and
sold
himselfe
altogether
to
work
wickednesse
in
the
sight
of
the
Lord
:
he
shed
in
Ierusalem
much
innocent
blood
,
and
put
to
death
,
those
which
did
reprooue
him
,
because
they
would
not
frame
themselues
according
to
his
abhominations
.
For
these
thinges
the
wrath
of
GOD
was
kindled
against
him
,
in
so
much
that
he
was
ouercome
of
the
Asserians
,
and
lead
captiue
to
Babylon
bound
with
chaynes
:
but
being
there
in
anguish
,
he
humbled
himselfe
to
God
,
confessing
that
he
had
beene
wicked
,
cruell
,
and
abhominable
:
at
whose
complaint
God
had
mercie
on
him
,
deliuered
him
from
such
miserable
bondage
,
caused
him
to
returne
to
Ierusalem
,
and
set
him
in
his
kingdome
againe
,
who
beeing
thankfull
to
his
God
for
his
goodnes
,
tooke
away
the
strange
Gods
,
pulled
downe
the
Alters
,
and
established
the
pure
seruice
of
GOD
,
with
a
straight
commaundement
to
all
his
people
to
obserue
it
,
giuing
in
this
a
ful
testimonie
of
his
true
repentance
and
conuersion
to
God
:
by
this
we
haue
an
example
,
and
euident
apparant
signe
of
the
infinite
mercie
of
GOD
towards
vs
poore
and
miserable
sinners
,
to
this
end
,
that
none
dispayre
in
his
sinnes
how
great
and
filthie
soeuer
they
bee
:
for
(
as
I
haue
shewed
out
of
Gods
word
)
where
sinne
aboundeth
,
there
grace
aboundeth
much
more
.
It
was
a
great
and
filthie
offence
,
when
many
of
the
high
Priests
and
Leuites
in
the
tyme
of
the
Captiuitie
,
and
when
the
wrath
of
God
was
spred
ouer
them
,
and
ouer
al
the
people
because
of
their
iniquities
,
who
neuer
thought
on
their
transgressions
,
nor
sorie
for
their
sinnes
,
in
turning
to
the
Lord
by
a
true
repentaunce
,
but
forgat
what
he
had
commaunded
them
,
&
tooke
strange
wiues
,
lincking
themselues
to
straunge
people
,
betrothing
their
sonnes
and
daughters
in
mariage
,
and
mingling
by
this
meanes
the
holy
seede
with
prophane
people
,
a
thing
generally
forbidden
to
all
the
people
of
GOD
,
Deut.
7.3
.
but
especially
prohibited
in
Leuit.
21.14
.
Yet
when
Esdras
a
soueraigne
high
Priest
,
a
Scribe
of
the
law
,
a
rightuous
man
vnderstood
this
disorder
and
confusion
,
he
was
very
sorie
,
and
greatly
offended
,
making
lamentation
before
GOD
for
it
.
The
people
also
were
taken
with
feare
and
trembling
,
acknowledging
their
faultes
,
and
by
the
commaundement
of
Esdras
,
sent
awaye
their
strange
wiues
with
their
children
,
making
certaine
Offringes
in
respect
of
their
sinnes
,
and
so
the
bountie
and
mercifulnesse
of
God
remayned
among
them
.
There
was
a
woman
sayth
S.
Luke
in
the
7.
Chapter
of
the
Gospell
,
which
was
of
euill
life
,
who
hauing
cast
her self
at
the
feete
of
Iesus
Christ
weeping
,
receiued
of
him
such
ioye
and
consolation
,
to
assure
her selfe
that
her
sinne
was
forgiuen
her
though
they
were
neuer
so
great
.
There
was
also
sayth
the
selfe
same
Euangilist
in
the
19.
Chapter
,
a
man
called
Zacheus
,
who
was
a
principall
Maister
of
the
Custome
,
rich
,
and
of
a
wicked
life
:
yet
when
Iesus
promised
to
lodge
with
him
,
he
shewed
that
hee
was
come
to
seeke
and
saue
that
which
was
lo●●
,
by
which
meanes
this
poore
sinner
was
receiued
into
grace
,
with
a
true
repentaunce
,
and
goodwill
to
satisfie
againe
the
hurt
which
he
had
done
to
others
.
I
pray
you
beholde
the
fall
of
S.
Peter
,
it
is
an
example
to
euery
one
,
who
being
one
of
the
twelue
Apostles
and
Doctors
of
the
worlde
,
brought
vp
in
the
knowledge
of
the
Lord
,
by
seeing
his
wonderful
myracles
,
and
beeing
one
of
the
three
witnesses
which
saued
his
glorie
in
the
Mountaine
,
promised
neuer
to
forsake
him
,
neither
in
prison
or
in
death
:
yet
his
infirmitie
was
so
great
,
and
so
fearefull
,
that
he
not
onely
forsooke
him
,
but
forsware
him
three
tymes
:
yet
the
Lorde
in
mercie
had
compassion
on
him
,
and
behelde
him
though
he
had
made
himselfe
vnworthie
of
the
honorable
office
whereunto
he
was
ordayned
:
but
repenting
&
weeping
in
teares
,
was
one
of
the
first
which
was
called
vnto
his
office
,
and
fitted
with
the
giftes
of
the
holy
Ghost
,
to
be
a
seruaunt
and
faithfull
witnesse
,
a
couragious
and
valiaunt
Martyr
of
Iesus
Christ
.
The
vnhappie
and
wicked
man
,
which
for
his
misdeeds
was
hanged
on
the
Crosse
,
had
his
recourse
vnto
Iesus
Christ
in
the
tyme
of
death
,
and
was
not
cast
away
but
receiued
into
ioye
and
consolation
,
with
promise
,
that
after
his
death
,
not
after
many
yeeres
,
or
some
space
of
tyme
,
or
after
he
had
bene
in
the
forged
fire
of
Purgatorie
,
but
presently
when
he
should
end
this
mortal
life
,
he
should
be
with
Christ
in
Paradise
.
He
was
truely
execrable
,
which
was
cut
of
from
the
number
of
the
faithfull
by
the
Church
at
Corinth
,
because
against
all
honestie
and
ciuility
,
he
did
entertaine
and
vncouer
the
nakednesse
of
his
fathers
wife
:
for
which
cause
,
although
he
well
deserued
to
be
deliuered
to
Sathan
,
excommunicated
,
and
vtterly
cut
off
from
the
misticall
bodie
of
Christ
:
yet
the
Apostle
S.
Paule
seeing
his
repentaunce
,
and
vnderstanding
the
punishment
which
the
Church
had
layd
vpon
him
,
vsed
clemencie
&
compassion
,
neither
would
haue
the
man
to
suffer
any
greater
seueritie
,
but
to
haue
some
regard
in
comforting
him
,
for
feare
hee
should
bee
swallowed
with
too
great
sadnesse
.
See
here
what
examples
the
holy
Ghost
setteth
forth
in
holy
Scriptures
,
as
pure
&
cleare
testimonies
,
to
proue
the
great
and
inestimable
mercies
of
God
towardes
poore
sinners
,
which
doe
conuert
themselues
with
all
their
harts
,
without
dissimulation
vnto
him
,
by
a
true
repentaunce
and
amendement
of
life
.
These
examples
be
of
some
force
to
those
whom
God
hath
receiued
lately
vnto
the
communion
of
his
grace
,
when
as
he
made
a
way
vnto
the
Gentiles
,
and
called
them
vnto
his
Church
:
All
those
then
,
which
haue
bene
before
named
were
of
the
people
of
God
,
&
of
his
house
:
of
which
,
some
haue
sinned
against
the
first
Table
:
others
against
the
second
:
others
against
both
by
monstrous
misdeedes
:
some
haue
robbed
:
some
murthered
,
and
done
dissolutly
.
Some
haue
committed
Adultery
,
Fornication
,
and
Incest
.
Some
Apostaties
,
Idolators
,
and
reuolters
from
the
trueth
.
Some
giuen
vnto
Witchcraft
:
all
they
neuerthelesse
haue
bene
receiued
into
the
mercie
of
God
.
O
the
wonderfull
loue
of
the
Lord
,
how
excellent
and
full
of
compassion
is
he
?
Who
would
not
be
rauished
to
beholde
his
stedfastnesse
?
Who
would
not
trust
in
him
to
reioyce
and
comforte
himselfe
in
his
mercies
?
who
is
a
strong
hould
for
the
poore
afflicted
,
a
refuge
for
those
that
be
amased
and
desolate
,
a
comfort
to
those
which
are
in
calamitie
,
the
whole
hope
of
the
poore
.
It
is
thou
O
Lord
,
which
doest
surmount
all
our
iniquities
,
thou
swallowest
them
downe
,
and
bringest
them
to
nothing
,
by
acquitting
and
deliuering
vs
from
them
.
Is
there
any
then
that
feeleth
himself
guiltie
of
any
great
fault
,
or
any
sinne
committed
after
they
haue
bin
instructed
in
their
saluation
,
occupying
a
place
in
the
Sheepe-fould
of
the
Lord
?
let
him
not
dispayre
in
the
clemencie
of
God
,
seeing
he
hath
here
fayre
examples
before
his
eyes
to
followe
for
his
comfort
.
Seeing
then
it
is
so
by
so
many
places
of
holy
Scripture
,
and
by
the
promises
of
God
by
good
examples
,
liuely
exhortations
of
the
grace
and
mercie
of
God
offered
to
vs
presently
,
and
set
foorth
by
the
loue
of
his
beloued
sonne
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
:
let
vs
bee
certaine
and
full
assured
,
that
if
wee
beleeue
and
truely
repent
,
and
call
vpon
him
with
a
true
heart
and
affection
,
he
will
bee
pacified
with
vs
,
what
offence
soeuer
wee
haue
committed
,
he
will
wholly
forgiue
vs
.
This
is
then
the
consolation
in
myne
affliction
,
for
thy
word
O
Lord
hath
quickened
mee
.
Psalm.
119.
FINIS
.