GOOD
NEWS
For
the
Vilest
of
Men
.
OR
,
A
Help
for
Despairing
Souls
.
Luke
xxiv
.
47.
—
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
THe
whole
Discourse
runs
thus
:
And
that
repentance
and
remission
of
Sins
should
be
preached
in
his
Name
among
all
Nations
,
beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
The
Words
were
spoken
by
Christ
,
after
he
rose
from
the
Dead
,
and
they
are
here
rehearsed
after
an
Historical
manner
,
but
do
contain
in
them
a
formal
Commission
,
with
a
special
Clause
therein
.
The
Commission
is
,
as
you
see
,
for
the
Preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
and
is
very
distinctly
incerted
in
the
Holy
Record
by
Matthew
and
Mark
.
Go
teach
all
Nations
,
&c.
Go
ye
into
all
the
World
and
preach
the
Gospel
unto
every
Creature
,
Matt
.
28.19
.
Mark
16.15
.
Only
this
Clause
is
in
special
mentioned
by
Luke
,
who
saith
,
That
as
Christ
would
have
the
Doctrine
of
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sins
preached
in
his
Name
among
all
Nations
,
so
he
would
have
the
People
of
Jerusalem
to
have
the
first
proffer
thereof
.
Preach
it
,
saith
Christ
,
in
all
Nations
:
but
begin
at
Jerusalem
.
The
Apostles
then
,
though
they
had
a
Commission
so
large
as
to
give
them
Warrant
to
go
and
preach
the
Gospel
in
all
the
World
,
yet
by
this
Clause
they
were
limitted
,
as
to
the
beginning
of
their
Ministry
:
They
were
to
begin
this
Work
at
Jerusalem
.
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
Before
I
proceed
to
an
Observation
upon
the
Words
,
I
must
(
but
briefly
)
touch
upon
two
things
:
Namely
,
-
1.
Shew
you
what
Jerusalem
now
was
.
-
2.
Shew
you
what
it
was
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
them
.
For
the
first
,
Jerusalem
is
to
be
considered
of
,
either
,
1.
With
respect
to
the
descent
of
her
People
:
Or
,
2.
With
respect
to
her
Preference
and
Exaltation
:
Or
,
3.
With
respect
to
her
present
State
,
as
to
her
Decays
.
First
,
As
to
her
descent
:
She
was
from
Abraham
,
the
Sons
of
Jacob
,
a
People
that
God
singled
out
from
the
rest
of
the
Nations
to
set
his
love
upon
them
.
Secondly
,
As
to
her
Preference
,
or
Exaltation
,
she
was
the
place
of
Gods
Worship
,
and
that
which
had
in
,
and
with
her
,
the
special
Tokens
and
Signs
of
Gods
favour
and
presence
,
above
any
other
People
in
the
World
.
Hence
the
Tribes
went
up
to
Jerusalem
to
Worship
,
there
was
Gods
house
,
Gods
high
Priest
,
Gods
Sacrifices
accepted
,
and
Gods
Eye
,
and
Gods
Heart
perpetually
,
Psal
.
76.1
,
2.
Psal
.
122.1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8.
1
King
.
9.3
.
But
Thirdly
,
We
are
to
consider
Jerusalem
also
in
her
Decays
,
for
as
she
is
so
considered
,
she
is
the
proper
object
of
our
Text
,
as
will
be
further
shewed
by
and
by
.
Jerusalem
,
as
I
told
you
,
was
the
place
and
seat
of
Gods
Worship
,
but
now
decayed
,
degenerated
,
and
apostatized
.
The
Word
,
the
Rule
of
Worship
,
wa●
rejected
of
them
,
and
in
its
place
the●
had
put
and
set
up
their
own
Traditions
▪
They
had
rejected
also
the
most
weighty
Ordinances
,
and
put
in
the
room
thereof
their
own
little
things
,
(
Matt
.
15.
Mark
7.
)
Jerusalem
was
therefore
now
greatly
backslidden
,
and
become
the
place
where
Truth
and
true
Religion
was
much
defaced
.
It
was
also
now
become
the
very
sink
of
Sin
,
and
seat
of
Hypocrisie
,
and
gulf
where
true
Religion
was
drowned
.
Here
also
now
reigned
Presumption
,
and
groundless
Confidence
in
God
,
which
is
the
bane
of
Souls
.
Amongst
its
Rulers
,
Doctors
,
and
Leaders
,
Envy
,
Malice
,
and
Blasphemy
vented
it self
against
the
Power
of
Godliness
,
in
all
places
where
it
was
espied
:
As
also
against
the
Promoters
of
it
;
yea
,
their
Lord
and
Maker
could
not
escape
them
.
In
a
Word
,
Jerusalem
was
now
become
the
Shambles
,
the
very
Slaughtershop
for
Saints
.
This
was
the
place
wherein
the
Prophets
,
Christ
,
and
his
People
,
were
most
horribly
persecuted
and
murdered
.
Yea
,
so
hardened
at
this
time
was
this
Jerusalem
in
her
Sins
,
that
She
feared
not
to
commit
the
biggest
,
and
to
bind
her self
by
Wish
under
the
guilt
and
damning
evil
of
it
;
Saying
,
when
●he
had
murdered
the
Son
of
God
,
His
Blood
be
upon
us
and
our
Children
.
And
though
Jesus
Christ
did
both
by
Doctrine
,
Miracles
,
and
Holiness
of
life
,
seek
to
put
a
stop
to
their
Villanies
;
yet
they
shut
their
eyes
,
stopt
their
ears
,
and
rested
not
,
till
as
was
hinted
before
,
they
had
driven
him
out
of
the
World
.
Yea
,
that
they
might
,
if
possible
,
have
extinguished
his
Name
,
and
exploded
his
Doctrine
out
of
the
World
,
they
against
all
argument
,
and
in
despite
of
Heaven
,
its
mighty
hand
,
and
undeniable
proof
of
his
Resurrection
,
did
hire
Souldiers
to
invent
a
lye
,
saying
,
His
Disciples
stole
him
away
from
the
Grave
;
on
purpose
that
men
might
not
count
him
the
Saviour
of
the
World
,
nor
trust
in
him
for
Remission
of
Sins
.
They
were
,
saith
Paul
,
contrary
to
all
men
.
For
they
did
not
only
shut
up
the
door
of
Life
against
themselves
,
but
forbad
that
it
should
be
opened
to
any
else
.
Forbidding
us
,
saith
he
,
to
preach
to
the
Gentiles
,
that
they
might
be
saved
,
to
fill
up
their
sin
alway
,
Matt
.
23.35
.
chap.
15.7
,
8
,
9.
Mar.
7.6
,
7
,
8.
Matt
.
3.7
,
8
,
9.
Joh
.
8.33
,
41.
Matt
.
27.18
.
Mar.
3.30
.
Luk
.
2.65
.
Matt
.
23.37
,
Luk
.
13.33
,
34.
Psal
.
2.22
,
23.
chap
▪
4.10
.
Matt
.
27.25
.
chap.
20.11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
15.
1
Thess.
2.14
,
15
,
16.
This
is
the
City
,
and
these
are
the
People
:
This
is
their
Character
,
and
these
are
their
Sins
.
Nor
can
there
be
produced
their
parallel
in
all
this
World●…
Nay
,
what
World
!
what
People
!
what
Nation
,
for
Sin
,
and
Transgression
,
could
,
or
can
be
compared
to
Jerusalem
?
Especially
if
you
join
to
the
matter
of
fact
,
the
Light
they
sinned
against
,
and
the
Patience
which
they
abused
.
Infinite
was
the
Wickedness
upon
this
account
which
they
committed
.
After
all
their
abusings
of
Wise
Men
,
and
Prophets
,
God
sent
unto
them
John
Baptist
,
to
reduce
them
,
and
then
his
Son
to
redeem
them
;
but
they
would
be
neither
reduced
nor
redeemed
,
but
persecuted
both
to
the
Death
.
Nor
did
they
,
as
I
said
,
stop
here
,
the
Holy
Apostles
they
afterwards
persecuted
also
to
death
,
even
so
many
as
they
could
,
the
rest
they
drove
from
them
unto
the
utmost
Corners
.
Secondly
,
I
come
now
to
shew
you
what
it
was
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
them
.
It
was
,
saith
Luke
,
to
preach
to
them
Repentance
and
remission
of
Sins
in
Christs
Name
.
Or
as
Mark
has
it
,
to
●…
d
them
repent
and
believe
the
Gospel
,
Mar.
1.15
.
Not
that
Repentance
is
a
●…
ause
of
Remission
,
but
a
sign
of
our
●…
earty
reception
thereof
.
Repentance
●…
s
therefore
here
put
to
intimate
,
that
●…
o
pretended
Faith
of
the
Gospel
is
good
,
that
is
not
accompanied
with
it
.
And
this
he
doth
on
purpose
'cause
he
would
not
have
them
deceive
themselves
:
For
with
what
Faith
can
he
expect
remission
of
Sins
in
the
Name
of
Christ
,
that
is
not
heartily
sorry
for
them
?
Or
how
shall
a
man
be
able
to
give
to
others
a
satisfactory
account
of
his
unseigned
subjection
to
the
Gospel
,
that
yet
abides
in
his
impenitency
?
Wherefore
Repentance
is
here
joined
with
Faith
in
the
way
of
receiving
〈◇〉
Gospel
.
Faith
is
that
without
which
it
cannot
be
received
at
all
:
And
Repentance
that
without
which
it
cannot
be
received
unfeignedly
.
When
therefore
Christ
says
,
he
would
have
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sins
preached
in
his
Name
among
all
Nations
;
it
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
I
will
that
all
men
every
where
be
sorry
for
their
sins
,
and
accept
of
mercy
at
Gods
hand
thorow
me
,
last
they
fall
under
his
wrath
in
the
Judgement
.
For
as
I
said
,
without
Repentance
,
what
pretence
soever
men
have
of
Faith
,
they
cannot
escape
the
wrath
to
come
.
Wherefore
Paul
saith
,
God
commands
all
men
every
where
to
repent
(
in
order
to
their
Salvation
)
because
he
hath
appointed
a
day
in
the
which
he
will
Judge
the
World
in
Righteousness
by
that
man
whom
he
hath
ordained
,
Acts
17.30
.
And
now
to
come
to
this
Clause
,
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
:
That
is
,
that
Christ
would
have
Jerusalem
have
the
first
offer
of
the
Gospel
.
1.
This
cannot
be
so
commanded
,
because
they
had
now
any
more
right
of
themselves
thereto
than
had
any
of
the
Nations
of
the
World
;
for
their
Sins
had
divested
them
of
all
self-deservings
.
2.
Nor
yet
,
because
they
stood
upon
the
advance-ground
with
the
worst
of
the
Sinners
of
the
Nations
.
Nay
,
rather
the
Sinners
of
the
Nations
had
the
advance-ground
of
them
.
For
Jerusalem
was
long
,
before
she
had
added
this
Iniquity
to
her
sin
,
worse
then
the
very
Nations
that
God
cast
out
before
the
Children
of
Israel
,
2
Chron
.
33.
3.
It
must
therefore
follow
that
this
Clause
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
,
was
put
into
this
Commission
of
meer
Grace
and
Com●…
assion
;
Even
from
the
over-flowings
of
●…
he
bowels
of
Mercy
.
For
indeed
they
were
the
worst
,
and
so
in
the
most
deplorable
condition
of
any
People
under
the
Heavens
.
Whatever
therefore
their
relation
was
to
Abraham
,
Isaac
,
or
Jacob
,
however
they
formerly
had
been
the
People
among
whom
God
had
placed
his
Name
,
and
Worship
;
they
were
now
degenerated
from
God
,
more
than
the
Nations
were
from
their
Idols
,
and
were
become
guilty
of
the
highest
Sins
which
the
People
of
the
World
were
capable
of
committing
.
Nay
,
none
can
be
capable
of
committing
of
such
pardonable
sins
as
they
committed
against
their
God
,
when
they
slew
his
Son
,
and
persecuted
his
Name
and
Word
.
From
these
words
therefore
,
thus
explained
,
we
gain
this
Observation
;
That
Jesus
Christ
would
have
mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
.
That
these
Jerusalem-Sinners
were
the
biggest
sinners
that
ever
were
in
the
world
,
I
think
none
will
deny
,
that
believes
that
Christ
was
the
best
Man
that
ever
was
in
the
world
,
and
also
was
their
Lord
God
.
And
that
they
were
to
have
the
first
offer
of
his
grace
,
the
Text
is
as
clear
as
the
Sun
,
for
it
saith
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
Preach
,
saith
he
,
Repentance
and
remission
of
sins
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
;
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
in
the
first
place
.
One
would
a-thought
,
since
the
Jerusalem-sinners
were
the
worst
,
and
greatest
Sinners
,
Christ's
greatest
enemies
,
and
those
that
not
only
despised
his
Person
,
Doctrine
,
and
Miracles
,
but
that
a
little
before
had
had
their
hands
up
to
the
elbows
in
his
Heart-blood
,
That
he
should
rather
have
said
,
Go
into
all
the
World
and
preach
Repentance
and
remission
of
sins
among
all
Nations
;
and
after
that
,
offer
the
same
to
Jerusalem
.
Yea
,
it
had
been
infinite
grace
,
if
he
had
said
so
.
But
what
grace
is
this
?
or
what
Name
shall
we
give
it
,
when
he
commands
that
this
repentance
and
remission
of
sins
,
which
is
designed
to
be
preached
in
all
Nations
,
should
first
be
offered
to
Jerusalem
,
in
the
first
place
to
the
worst
of
sinners
?
Nor
was
this
the
first
time
that
the
grace
which
was
in
the
heart
of
Christ
,
thus
shewed
it self
to
the
World
.
For
while
he
was
yet
alive
,
even
while
he
was
yet
in
Jerusalem
,
and
perceived
even
among
these
Jerusalem-sinners
,
which
was
●…
he
most
vile
amongst
them
;
he
still
in
●…
is
preaching
did
signifie
that
he
had
a
desire
that
the
worst
of
these
worst
should
in
the
first
place
come
unto
him
.
The
which
he
sheweth
where
he
saith
to
the
better
sort
of
them
,
The
Publicans
and
Harlots
enter
into
the
Kingdom
of
God
before
you
,
Matt
.
21.31
.
Also
when
he
compared
Jerusalem
with
the
Sinners
of
the
Nations
,
then
he
commands
that
the
Jerusalem-sinners
should
have
the
Gospel
at
present
confined
to
them
.
Go
not
,
saith
he
,
into
the
way
of
the
Gentiles
,
and
into
any
of
the
Cities
of
the
Samaritans
enter
ye
not
:
but
go
rather
to
the
lost
sheep
of
the
house
of
Israel
,
Matt
.
10.5
,
6.
chap.
23.37
.
But
go
rather
to
them
,
for
they
were
in
the
most
fearful
plight
.
These
therefore
must
have
the
Cream
of
the
Gospel
,
namely
,
the
first
offer
thereof
in
his
Life-time
:
Yea
,
when
he
departed
out
of
the
World
,
he
left
this
as
part
of
his
last
Will
with
his
Preachers
,
that
they
also
should
offer
it
first
to
Jerusalem
.
He
had
a
mind
,
a
careful
mind
,
as
it
seems
,
to
priviledge
the
worst
of
Sinners
with
the
first
offer
of
Mercy
,
and
to
take
from
among
them
a
People
to
be
the
first
fruits
unto
God
and
to
the
Lamb
.
The
fifteenth
of
Luke
also
is
famous
for
this
,
where
the
Lord
Jesus
takes
more
care
,
as
appears
there
by
three
Parables
,
for
the
lost
Sheep
,
lost
Groat
,
and
the
Prodigal
Son
,
then
for
the
other
Sheep
,
the
other
Pence
,
or
for
the
Son
that
said
he
had
never
transgressed
.
Yea
,
he
shews
that
there
is
Joy
in
Heaven
,
among
the
Angels
of
God
,
at
the
repentance
of
one
Sinner
,
more
than
over
Ninety
and
nine
Just
Persons
,
which
need
no
repentance
,
Luk
.
15.
After
this
manner
therefore
the
mind
of
Christ
was
set
on
the
Salvation
of
the
biggest
Sinners
in
his
Life-time
.
But
joyn
to
this
,
this
Clause
,
which
he
carefully
put
into
the
Apostles
Commission
to
preach
,
when
he
departed
hence
to
the
Father
;
and
then
you
shall
see
that
his
Heart
was
vehemently
set
upon
it
,
for
these
were
part
of
his
last
words
with
them
,
Preach
my
Gospel
to
all
Nations
,
but
see
that
you
begin
at
Jerusalem
.
Nor
did
the
Apostles
over-look
this
Clause
,
when
their
Lord
was
gone
into
Heaven
:
They
went
first
to
them
of
Jerusalem
,
and
preached
Christ's
Gospel
to
them
.
They
abode
also
there
for
a
season
and
time
,
and
preached
it
to
no
body
else
,
for
they
had
regard
to
the
Commandment
of
their
Lord
.
And
it
is
to
be
observed
,
namely
,
that
the
first
Sermon
which
they
preached
after
the
Ascension
of
Christ
,
it
was
preached
to
the
very
worst
of
these
Jerusalemsinners
;
even
to
those
that
were
the
murderers
of
Jesus
Christ
,
Acts
2.23
.
For
these
are
part
of
the
Sermon
:
Ye
took
him
,
and
by
wicked
hands
have
Crucified
and
slain
him
.
Yea
,
the
next
Sermon
,
and
the
next
,
and
also
the
next
to
that
,
was
preached
to
the
self-same
murderers
,
to
the
end
they
might
be
saved
,
Acts
3.14
,
15
,
16.
chap.
4
,
10
,
11.
chap.
5
,
30.
chap.
7.52
.
But
we
will
return
to
the
first
Sermon
that
was
preached
to
these
Jerusalem-sinners
,
by
which
will
be
manifest
more
than
great
Grace
,
if
it
be
duly
considered
.
For
after
that
Peter
and
the
rest
of
the
Apostles
,
had
in
their
Exhortation
perswaded
these
Wretches
to
believe
that
they
had
killed
the
Prince
of
Life
,
and
after
they
had
duly
fallen
under
the
guilt
of
their
Murder
,
saying
,
Men
and
Brethren
,
what
shall
we
do
?
He
replies
by
an
universal
Tender
to
them
all
in
general
,
considering
them
as
Christ-killers
.
That
if
they
were
sorry
for
what
they
had
done
,
and
would
be
Baptized
for
the
Remission
of
their
sins
in
his
Name
,
they
should
receive
the
gift
of
the
Holy
Ghost
,
Acts
2.37
,
38.
This
he
said
to
them
all
,
though
he
knew
that
they
were
such
sinners
.
Yea
,
he
said
it
without
the
least
stick
,
or
stop
,
or
pause
of
Spirit
,
as
to
whether
he
had
best
to
say
so
or
no
.
Nay
,
so
far
off
was
Peter
from
making
an
Objection
against
one
of
them
,
that
by
a
particular
Clause
in
his
Exhortation
,
he
endeavours
,
that
not
one
of
them
may
escape
the
Salvation
offered
.
Repent
,
saith
he
,
and
be
Baptized
every
one
of
you
.
I
shut
out
never
a
one
of
you
.
For
I
am
commanded
by
my
Lord
,
to
deal
with
you
,
as
it
were
,
one
by
one
,
by
the
Word
of
his
Salvation
.
But
why
speaks
he
so
particularly
?
Oh!
there
were
reasons
for
it
.
The
People
with
whom
the
Apostles
were
now
to
deal
,
as
they
were
Murderers
of
our
Lord
,
and
to
be
charged
in
the
general
with
his
Blood
,
so
they
had
their
various
and
particular
acts
of
Villany
in
the
guilt
thereof
,
now
lying
upon
their
Consciences
.
And
the
guilt
of
these
their
various
and
particular
acts
of
wickedness
,
could
not
perhaps
,
be
reached
to
a
removal
thereof
,
but
by
this
particular
Application
.
Repent
every
one
of
you
;
be
Baptized
every
one
of
you
,
in
his
Name
,
for
the
remission
of
Sins
,
and
you
shall
,
every
one
of
you
,
receive
the
gift
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Object
.
But
I
was
one
of
them
that
plotted
to
take
away
his
Life
.
May
I
be
saved
by
him
?
Peter
.
Every
one
of
you
.
Object
.
But
I
was
one
of
them
that
bare
false
Witness
against
him
.
Is
there
Grace
for
me
!
Peter
.
For
every
one
of
you
.
Object
.
But
I
was
one
of
them
that
cryed
out
,
Crucifie
,
Crucifie
him
;
and
that
desired
that
Barabas
the
Murderer
might
live
rather
than
him
.
What
will
become
of
me
,
think
you
?
Peter
.
I
am
to
preach
Repentance
and
remission
of
Sins
to
every
one
of
you
,
says
Peter
.
Object
.
But
I
was
one
of
them
that
did
spit
in
his
face
when
he
stood
before
his
Accusers
.
I
also
was
one
that
mocked
him
,
when
in
anguish
he
hanged
bleeding
on
the
tree
.
Is
there
room
for
me
?
Peter
.
For
every
one
of
you
,
says
Peter
.
Object
.
But
I
was
one
of
them
that
in
his
extremity
said
,
Give
him
Gall
and
Vinegar
to
drink
,
why
may
not
I
expect
the
same
when
anguish
and
guilt
is
upon
me
?
Peter
.
Repent
of
these
your
wickednesses
,
and
here
is
remission
of
sins
for
every
one
of
you
.
Object
.
But
I
railed
on
him
,
I
reviled
him
,
I
hated
him
,
I
rejoyced
to
see
him
mocked
at
by
others
.
Can
there
be
hopes
for
me
?
Peter
.
There
is
for
every
one
of
you
.
Repent
and
be
Baptized
every
one
of
you
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
Christ
,
for
the
remission
of
sins
,
and
ye
shall
receive
the
gift
of
the
Holy
Ghost
.
Oh!
what
a
blessed
every
one
of
you
,
is
here
!
How
willing
was
Peter
and
the
Lord
Jesus
,
by
his
Ministry
,
to
catch
these
Murderers
with
the
Word
of
the
Gospel
,
that
they
might
be
made
monuments
of
the
grace
of
God!
How
unwilling
,
I
say
,
was
he
,
that
any
of
these
should
escape
the
hand
of
Mercy
!
Yea
,
what
an
amazing
wonder
is
it
,
to
think
,
that
above
all
the
world
,
and
above
every
body
in
it
,
These
should
have
the
first
offer
of
Mercy
!
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
But
was
there
not
something
of
moment
in
this
Clause
of
the
Commission
?
Did
not
Peter
,
think
you
,
see
a
great
deal
in
it
?
that
he
should
thus
begin
with
these
men
,
and
thus
offer
,
so
particularly
,
this
Grace
to
each
particular
man
of
them
?
But
,
as
I
told
you
,
This
is
not
all
.
These
Jerusalem-sinners
,
must
have
this
offer
again
and
again
;
Every
one
of
them
,
must
be
offered
it
over
and
over
.
Christ
would
not
take
their
first
rejection
for
a
denial
;
nor
their
second
repulse
for
a
denial
:
But
he
will
have
Grace
offered
once
,
and
twice
,
and
thrice
,
to
these
Jerusalem
sinners
.
Is
not
this
amazing
Grace
!
Christ
will
not
be
put
off
.
These
are
the
Sinners
,
that
are
sinners
indeed
.
They
are
Sinners
of
the
biggest
sort
,
consequently
such
as
Christ
can
,
if
they
convert
and
be
saved
,
best
serve
his
ends
and
designs
upon
.
Of
which
more
anon
.
But
what
a
pitch
of
Grace
is
this
!
Christ
is
minded
to
amaze
the
World
,
and
to
shew
that
he
acteth
not
like
the
Children
of
men
.
This
is
that
which
he
said
of
old
,
I
will
not
execute
the
fierceness
of
my
wrath
,
I
will
not
return
to
destroy
Ephraim
,
for
I
am
God
and
not
Man
,
Hos
.
11.9
.
This
is
not
the
manner
of
Men
;
Men
are
shorter
winded
;
Men
are
soon
moved
to
take
Vengeance
,
and
to
right
themselves
in
a
way
of
Wrath
and
Indignation
.
But
God
is
full
of
Grace
,
full
of
Patience
,
ready
to
forgive
,
and
one
that
delights
in
mercy
.
All
this
is
seen
in
our
Text
.
The
biggest
sinners
must
First
be
offered
Mercy
.
They
must
,
I
say
,
have
the
Cream
of
the
Gospel
offered
unto
them
.
But
we
will
a
little
proceed
.
In
the
Third
Chapter
we
find
,
that
they
who
escaped
Converting
by
the
first
Sermon
,
are
called
upon
again
,
to
accept
of
Grace
and
Forgiveness
for
their
Murder
committed
upon
this
Son
of
God
.
You
have
killed
;
yea
,
you
have
denyed
the
Holy
one
and
the
Just
,
and
desired
a
Murderer
to
be
granted
unto
you
.
And
killed
the
Prince
of
Life
.
Mark
,
He
falls
again
upon
the
very
Men
that
actually
were
,
as
you
have
it
in
the
Chapters
following
,
his
very
betrayers
and
murderers
,
Acts
3.14
,
15.
As
being
loth
that
they
should
escape
the
mercy
of
Forgiveness
.
And
Exhorts
them
again
to
repent
,
that
their
sins
might
be
blotted
out
,
Ver
.
19
,
20.
Again
,
in
the
Fourth
Chapter
,
he
charges
them
afresh
with
this
Murder
,
Ver
.
10.
But
withall
tells
them
,
Salvation
is
in
no
other
.
Then
like
a
heavenly
Decoy
,
he
puts
himself
also
among
them
,
to
draw
them
the
better
under
the
Net
of
the
Gospel
;
saying
,
There
is
none
other
Name
under
Heaven
given
among
men
whereby
We
must
be
saved
,
Ver
.
12.
In
the
Fifth
Chapter
you
find
them
railing
at
him
,
because
he
continued
preaching
among
them
Salvation
in
the
Name
of
Jesus
.
But
he
tells
them
,
That
that
very
Jesus
whom
they
had
slain
and
hanged
on
a
Tree
,
him
God
had
raised
up
,
and
exalted
to
be
a
Prince
and
a
Saviour
,
to
give
Repentance
to
Israel
,
and
Forgiveness
of
Sins
,
Ver
.
29
,
30
,
31.
Still
insinuating
,
that
tho
they
had
killed
him
,
and
to
this
day
rejected
him
,
yet
his
business
was
to
bestow
upon
them
,
Repentance
and
Forgiveness
of
Sins
.
't
is
true
,
after
they
began
to
kill
again
,
and
when
nothing
but
killing
would
serve
their
turn
;
then
they
that
were
scattered
abroad
,
went
every
where
preaching
the
Word
.
Yet
even
some
of
them
so
hankered
after
the
Conversion
of
the
Jews
,
that
they
preached
the
Gospel
only
to
them
.
Also
the
Apostles
still
made
their
abode
at
Jerusalem
,
in
hopes
that
they
might
yet
let
down
their
Net
for
another
draught
of
these
Jerusalem-sinners
.
Neither
did
Paul
and
Barnabas
,
who
were
the
Ministers
of
God
to
the
Gentiles
,
but
offer
the
Gospel
in
the
first
place
to
those
of
them
that
for
their
wickedness
were
scattered
like
Vagabonds
among
the
Nations
.
Yea
,
and
when
they
rendered
Rebellion
and
Blasphemy
for
their
Service
and
Love
;
they
replyed
,
It
was
necessary
that
the
Word
of
God
should
first
have
been
spoken
to
them
,
Acts
1.8
.
chap.
13
,
46
,
47.
Nor
was
this
their
preaching
unsuccessful
among
these
People
:
But
the
Lord
Jesus
so
wrought
with
the
Word
thus
spoken
,
that
thousands
of
them
came
flocking
to
him
for
Mercy
.
Three
thousand
of
them
closed
with
him
at
the
first
;
and
afterwards
two
thousand
more
;
for
now
they
were
in
number
about
sive
thousand
;
whereas
before
Sermons
was
preached
to
these
Murderers
,
the
number
of
the
Disciples
were
not
above
a
hundred
and
twenty
,
Acts
1.15
.
chap.
2
,
41.
chap.
4
,
4.
Also
among
these
People
that
thus
flocked
to
him
for
Mercy
,
there
was
a
great
company
of
the
Priests
,
chap
6
,
7.
Now
the
Priests
were
they
that
were
the
greatest
of
these
biggest
sinners
;
they
were
the
Ringleaders
,
they
were
the
Inventors
and
Ringleaders
in
the
mischief
.
't
was
they
that
set
the
People
against
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
that
was
the
cause
why
the
uproar
increased
,
until
Filate
had
given
Sentence
upon
him
.
The
chief
Priests
and
Elders
,
says
the
Text
,
perswaded
(
the
People
)
the
multitude
,
that
they
should
ask
Barabas
,
and
destroy
Jesus
,
Matt
.
27.20
.
And
yet
,
behold
,
the
Priests
,
yea
,
a
great
company
of
the
Priests
became
obedient
to
the
Faith
.
Oh
the
greatness
of
the
Grace
of
Christ
!
That
he
should
be
thus
in
love
with
the
Souls
of
Jerusalem
sinners
!
That
he
should
be
thus
delighted
with
the
Salvation
of
the
Jerusalem-sinners
!
That
he
should
not
only
will
that
his
Gospel
should
be
offered
them
,
but
th●●
it
should
be
offered
unto
them
first
,
and
before
other
Sinners
were
admitted
to
a
hearing
of
it
;
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
Was
this
Doctrine
well
believed
,
where
would
there
be
place
for
a
doubt
,
or
a
fear
of
the
damnation
of
the
Soul
,
if
the
Sinner
be
penitent
;
How
bad
a
life
soever
he
has
lived
,
how
many
soever
in
number
are
his
sins
!
But
this
Grace
is
hid
from
the
eyes
of
men
,
the
Devil
hides
it
from
them
;
for
he
knows
it
is
alluring
;
he
knows
it
has
an
attracting
vertue
in
it
.
For
this
is
it
,
that
above
all
arguments
,
can
draw
the
Soul
to
God
.
I
cannot
help
it
,
but
must
let
drop
another
Word
.
The
first
Church
,
the
Jerusalem-Church
,
from
whence
the
Gospel
was
to
be
sent
into
all
the
World
;
was
a
Church
made
up
of
Jerusalem-sinners
.
These
great
Sinners
were
here
the
most
shining
Monuments
of
the
exceeding
grace
of
God
.
Thus
you
see
,
I
have
proved
the
Doctrine
;
and
that
,
not
only
by
shewing
you
,
that
this
was
the
practice
of
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
in
his
Life-time
;
but
his
last
Will
,
when
he
went
up
to
God
;
saying
,
Begin
to
preach
at
Jerusalem
.
Yea
,
it
is
yet
further
manifested
,
in
that
when
his
Ministers
first
began
to
preach
there
,
he
joyned
his
Power
to
the
Word
,
to
the
Converting
of
thousands
of
his
Betrayers
and
Murderers
;
and
also
many
of
the
Ringleading
Priests
,
to
the
Faith
.
I
now
shall
proceed
,
and
shall
shew
you
,
1.
The
Reasons
of
the
Point
.
2.
And
then
make
some
Application
of
the
whole
.
The
Observation
you
know
,
is
this
,
Jesus
Christ
would
have
mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
;
preach
Repentance
,
and
remission
of
sins
,
in
my
Name
,
among
all
Nations
,
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
The
Reasons
of
the
Point
are
,
First
,
Because
the
biggest
Sinners
have
most
need
thereof
.
He
that
has
most
need
,
Reason
says
,
should
be
helped
first
.
I
mean
,
when
a
helping
hand
is
offered
,
and
now
it
is
.
For
the
Gospel
of
the
Grace
of
God
is
sent
to
help
the
World
,
Acts
16.9
.
But
the
biggest
sinner
has
most
need
.
Therefore
in
reason
,
when
Mercy
is
sent
down
from
Heaven
to
men
,
the
worst
of
men
should
have
the
first
offer
of
it
.
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
This
is
the
reason
which
the
Lord
Christ
himself
renders
,
why
in
his
Life-time
he
left
the
best
,
and
turned
him
to
the
worst
;
why
he
sat
so
loose
from
the
Righteous
,
and
stuck
so
close
to
the
Wicked
.
The
whole
,
saith
he
,
have
no
need
of
the
Physician
,
but
the
sick
.
I
came
not
to
call
the
righteous
,
but
sinners
to
repentance
,
Mark
2.15
,
16
,
17.
Above
,
you
read
,
that
the
Scribes
and
Pharisees
said
to
his
Disciples
,
How
is
it
that
he
eateth
and
drinketh
with
Publicans
and
Sinners
?
Alas
,
they
did
not
know
the
reason
.
But
the
Lord
renders
them
one
,
and
such
an
one
as
is
both
natural
and
cogent
;
Saying
,
These
have
need
,
most
need
.
Their
great
necessity
requires
that
I
should
be
most
friendly
,
and
shew
my
grace
first
to
them
.
Not
that
the
other
were
sinless
,
and
so
had
no
need
of
a
Saviour
:
But
the
Publicans
and
their
companions
,
were
the
biggest
sinners
,
they
were
,
as
to
view
,
worse
than
the
Scribes
,
and
therefore
in
reason
should
be
helped
first
,
because
they
had
most
need
of
a
Saviour
.
Men
that
are
at
the
point
to
dye
,
have
more
need
of
the
Physician
,
then
they
that
are
but
now
and
then
troubled
with
an
Heart-fainting-qualm
.
The
Publicans
and
Sinners
were
as
it
were
,
in
the
mouth
of
Death
,
Death
was
swallowing
of
them
down
;
and
therefore
the
Lord
Jesus
receives
them
first
,
offers
them
mercy
first
.
The
whole
have
no
need
of
the
Physician
,
but
the
sick
.
I
came
not
to
call
the
righteous
,
but
sinners
to
repentance
.
The
Sick
,
as
I
said
,
is
the
biggest
sinner
,
whether
he
sees
his
Disease
or
not
.
He
is
stained
from
head
to
foot
,
from
heart
to
life
and
conversation
.
This
man
in
every
mans
judgment
,
has
the
most
need
of
mercy
.
There
is
nothing
attends
him
from
Bed
to
Board
,
and
from
board
to
bed
again
,
but
the
visible
characters
,
and
obvious
symptoms
of
eternal
damnation
.
This
therefore
is
the
man
that
has
need
,
most
need
,
and
therefore
in
reason
should
be
helped
in
the
first
place
.
Thus
't
was
with
the
People
concerned
in
the
Text
,
they
were
the
worst
of
sinners
,
Jerusalem-sinners
,
sinners
of
the
biggest
size
,
and
therefore
such
as
had
the
greatest
need
:
Wherefore
they
must
have
mercy
offered
to
them
,
before
it
be
offered
any
where
else
in
the
World
.
Begin
at
Jerusalem
,
offer
mercy
first
to
a
Jerusalem-sinner
:
This
man
has
most
need
,
he
is
farthest
from
God
,
nearest
to
Hell
,
and
so
one
that
has
most
need
.
This
mans
sins
are
in
number
the
most
,
in
cry
the
loudest
,
in
weight
the
heaviest
,
and
consequently
will
sink
him
soonest
:
Wherefore
he
has
most
need
of
mercy
.
This
man
is
shut
up
in
Satans
hand
,
fastest
bound
in
the
cords
of
his
sins
;
one
that
Justice
is
whetting
his
Sword
to
cut
off
,
and
therefore
has
most
need
,
not
only
of
mercy
,
but
that
it
should
be
extended
to
him
in
the
first
place
.
But
a
little
further
,
to
shew
you
the
true
nature
of
this
Reason
,
to
wit
,
That
Jesus
Christ
would
have
mercy
offer'd
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
First
,
Mercy
ariseth
from
Bowels
and
Compassion
,
from
Pity
,
and
from
a
feeling
of
the
Condition
of
those
in
misery
.
In
his
Love
,
and
in
his
Pity
,
he
saveth
us
.
And
again
,
The
Lord
is
pitiful
,
very
pitiful
,
and
of
great
mercy
,
Isa
.
63.9
.
Jam
.
5.11
.
Now
where
Pity
and
Compassion
is
,
there
is
yearning
of
Bowels
;
and
where
there
is
that
,
there
is
a
readiness
to
help
.
And
,
I
say
again
,
The
more
deplorable
and
dreadful
the
Condition
is
,
the
more
directly
doth
Bowels
and
Compassion
turn
themselves
to
such
,
and
offer
help
and
deliverance
.
All
this
flows
from
our
first
Scripture
proof
,
I
came
to
call
them
that
have
need
;
to
call
them
first
,
while
the
rest
look
on
,
and
murmur
.
How
shall
I
give
thee
up
,
Ephraim
?
Ephraim
was
a
Revolter
from
God
,
a
man
that
had
given
up
himself
to
Devilism
:
A
company
of
men
,
the
ten
Tribes
,
that
worshiped
Devils
,
while
Judah
kept
with
his
God
.
But
how
shall
I
give
thee
us
Ephra●m
?
How
shall
I
deliver
thee
,
Israel
?
How
sh●ll
I
make
thee
as
Admah
?
How
shall
I
set
th●e
as
Zeboim
?
(
and
yet
thou
art
worse
then
they
:
nor
has
Samaria
committed
half
thy
sins
,
Ezek
.
16.46
,
47
,
48
,
49
,
50
,
51.
)
My
heart
is
turned
within
me
,
and
my
repentings
are
kindled
together
,
Hos
.
11.8
.
But
where
do
you
find
that
ever
the
Lord
did
thus
rowl
in
his
Bowels
for
,
and
after
any
Self-righteous
man
?
No
,
no
,
they
are
the
Publicans
and
Harlots
,
Idolaters
and
Jerusalem-sinners
,
for
whom
his
Bowels
thus
yearn
and
tumble
about
within
him
.
For
alas
!
poor
Worms
,
they
have
most
need
of
mercy
.
Had
not
the
good
Samaritan
more
compassion
for
that
man
that
fell
among
Thieves
,
(
though
that
fall
was
occasioned
by
his
going
from
the
place
where
they
worshipped
God
,
to
Jerico
,
the
cursed
City
)
than
we
read
he
had
for
any
other
besides
?
His
Wine
was
for
him
,
his
Oyl
was
for
him
,
his
Beast
for
him
;
his
Penny
,
his
Care
,
and
his
Swadling-bands
for
him
;
for
alas
,
Wretch
!
he
had
most
need
,
Luk
.
10.30
,
31
,
32
,
33
,
34
,
35.
Zacheus
the
Publican
,
the
chief
of
the
Publicans
,
one
that
had
made
himself
the
richer
by
wronging
of
others
;
the
Lord
at
that
time
singleth
him
out
from
all
the
rest
of
his
brother
Publicans
,
and
that
in
the
face
of
many
Pharisees
;
and
proclaimed
in
the
audience
of
them
all
,
That
that
day
Salvation
was
come
to
his
house
,
Luke
19.1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8.
The
Woman
also
that
had
been
bound
down
by
Satan
for
eighteen
years
together
,
his
compassions
putting
him
upon
it
,
he
loosed
her
,
though
those
that
stood
by
snarled
at
him
for
so
doing
,
Luk
.
13.11
,
12
,
13.
And
why
the
Woman
of
Sarepta
,
and
why
Naaman
the
Syrian
,
rather
than
Widows
and
Lepers
in
Israel
;
but
because
their
conditions
were
more
deplorable
,
(
for
that
)
they
were
most
forlorn
,
and
farthest
from
help
,
Luk
.
4.25
,
27.
But
I
say
,
why
all
these
,
thus
named
?
why
have
we
not
a
Catalogue
of
some
Holy
men
that
were
so
in
their
own
eyes
,
and
in
the
judgment
of
the
World
?
Alas
!
if
at
any
time
any
of
them
are
mentioned
,
how
seemingly
coldly
doth
the
Record
of
Scripture
present
them
to
us
?
Nicodemus
,
a
Night-Professor
,
and
Simon
the
Pharisee
,
with
his
Fifty
Pence
;
and
their
great
ignorance
of
the
methods
of
Grace
,
we
have
now
and
then
touched
upon
.
Mercy
seems
to
be
out
of
his
proper
Chanel
,
when
it
deals
with
Self-righteous
men
;
but
then
it
runs
with
a
full
stream
when
it
extends
it self
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
As
God's
mercy
is
not
regulated
by
Man's
goodness
,
nor
obtained
by
Man's
worthiness
;
so
not
much
set
out
by
saving
of
any
such
But
more
of
this
anon
.
And
here
let
me
ask
my
Reader
a
Question
:
Suppose
that
as
thou
art
walking
by
some
Pond
side
,
thou
shouldst
espy
in
it
,
four
or
five
Children
all
in
danger
of
drowning
,
and
one
in
more
danger
than
all
the
rest
;
judge
which
has
most
need
to
be
helped
out
first
?
I
know
thou
wilt
say
,
he
that
is
nearest
drowning
.
Why
,
this
is
the
case
;
the
bigger
Sinner
,
the
nearer
drowning
;
therefore
the
bigger
sinner
,
the
more
need
of
mercy
;
yea
,
of
help
by
mercy
in
the
first
place
.
And
to
this
our
Text
agrees
,
when
it
saith
,
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
Let
the
Jerusalem-sinner
,
says
Christ
,
have
the
first
offer
,
the
first
invitation
,
the
first
tender
of
my
grace
and
mercy
,
for
he
is
the
biggest
sinner
,
and
so
has
most
need
thereof
.
Secondly
,
Christ
Jesus
would
have
mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
because
when
they
,
any
of
them
,
receive
it
,
it
redounds
most
to
the
fame
of
his
Name
.
Christ
Jesus
,
as
you
may
perceive
,
has
put
himself
under
the
term
of
a
Physician
,
or
Doctor
for
curing
of
Diseases
:
And
you
know
that
Applause
,
and
a
Fame
,
is
a
thing
that
Physicians
much
desire
.
That
is
it
that
helps
them
to
Patients
,
and
that
also
that
will
help
their
Patients
to
commit
themselves
to
their
Skill
for
Cure
,
with
the
more
confidence
and
repose
of
Spirit
.
And
the
best
way
for
a
Doctor
or
Physician
to
get
themselves
a
Name
,
is
in
the
first
place
to
take
in
hand
,
and
Cure
some
such
as
all
others
have
given
off
for
lost
and
dead
.
Physicians
get
neither
Name
nor
Fame
by
pricking
of
Wheals
or
picking
out
Thistles
,
or
by
laying
of
Plaisters
to
the
scratch
of
a
Pin
Every
old
Woman
can
do
this
.
But
if
they
will
have
a
Name
and
a
Fame
,
if
they
will
have
it
quickly
,
they
must
,
as
I
said
,
do
some
great
and
desperate
Cures
.
Let
them
fetch
one
to
Life
that
was
Dead
;
let
them
recover
one
to
his
Wits
,
that
was
Mad
;
let
them
make
one
that
was
born
Blind
,
to
See
;
or
let
them
give
ripe
Wits
to
a
Fool
;
these
are
notable
Cures
;
and
he
that
can
do
thus
,
and
if
he
doth
thus
first
,
he
shall
have
the
Name
and
Fame
he
desires
;
he
may
lye
a
Bed
till
Noon
.
Why
,
Christ
Jesus
forgiveth
Sins
for
a
Name
,
and
so
begets
of
himself
a
good
Report
in
the
hearts
of
the
Children
of
men
.
And
therefore
in
reason
,
he
must
be
willing
,
as
also
he
did
command
,
that
his
mercy
should
be
offered
first
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
I
will
forgive
their
sins
,
iniquities
,
and
transgressions
,
says
he
,
and
it
shall
turn
to
me
for
a
name
of
Joy
,
and
a
praise
,
and
an
honour
,
before
all
the
Nations
of
the
earth
,
Jer
.
33.8
,
9.
And
hence
it
is
that
at
his
first
appearing
he
took
upon
him
to
do
such
mighty
works
.
He
got
a
Fame
thereby
;
he
got
a
Name
thereby
,
Matt
.
4.23
,
24.
When
Christ
had
cast
the
legion
of
Devils
out
of
the
man
of
whom
you
read
,
Mark
5.
He
bid
him
go
home
to
his
Friends
and
tell
it
.
Go
home
,
said
he
,
to
thy
friends
,
and
tell
them
how
great
things
God
has
done
for
thee
,
and
has
had
compassion
on
thee
,
Mark
5.19
.
Christ
Jesus
seeks
a
Name
,
and
desireth
a
Fame
in
the
World
;
and
therefore
,
or
the
better
to
obtain
that
,
he
commands
that
mercy
should
first
be
proffered
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
because
by
the
saving
of
one
of
them
,
he
makes
all
men
marvel
.
As
't
is
said
of
the
man
last
mentioned
,
whom
Christ
cured
toward
the
beginning
of
his
Ministry
:
And
he
departed
,
says
the
Text
,
and
began
to
publish
in
Decapolis
,
how
great
things
Jesus
had
done
for
him
,
and
all
men
did
marvel
,
Ver
.
20.
When
John
told
Christ
,
that
they
saw
one
casting
out
Devils
in
his
Name
,
and
they
forbad
him
because
he
followed
not
with
them
:
What
is
the
answer
of
Christ
?
Forbid
him
not
,
for
there
is
no
man
which
shall
do
a
miracle
in
my
Name
,
that
can
lightly
speak
evil
of
me
.
No
,
they
will
rather
cause
his
Praise
to
be
heard
,
and
his
Name
to
be
magnified
,
and
so
put
Glory
on
the
head
of
Christ
.
But
we
will
follow
a
little
our
Metaphor
:
Christ
,
as
I
said
,
has
put
himself
under
the
term
of
a
Physician
;
Consequently
he
desireth
that
his
Fame
,
as
to
the
Salvation
of
sinners
,
may
spread
abroad
,
that
the
World
may
see
what
he
can
do
.
And
to
this
end
,
has
not
only
commanded
that
the
biggest
sinners
should
have
the
first
offer
of
his
mercy
;
but
has
,
as
Physicians
do
,
put
out
his
Bills
,
and
published
his
doings
,
that
things
may
be
read
and
talked
of
.
Yea
,
he
has
moreover
in
these
his
blessed
Bills
,
the
Holy
Scriptures
,
I
mean
,
incerted
the
very
Name
of
Persons
,
the
places
of
their
abode
,
and
the
great
Cures
that
by
the
means
of
his
Salvations
he
has
wrought
upon
them
to
this
very
end
.
Here
is
,
Item
,
Such
a
one
by
my
grace
and
redeeming
Blood
,
was
made
a
Monument
of
everlasting
Life
:
And
such
a
one
by
my
perfect
Obedience
,
became
an
Heir
of
Glory
.
And
then
he
produceth
their
Names
.
Item
,
I
saved
Lot
from
the
guilt
and
damnation
that
he
had
procured
to
himself
by
his
incest
.
Item
,
I
saved
David
from
the
Vengeance
that
belonged
to
him
for
committing
of
Adultery
and
Murder
.
Here
is
also
Solomon
,
Manasseth
,
Peter
,
Magdalen
,
and
many
others
made
mention
of
in
this
Book
.
Yea
,
here
are
their
Names
,
their
Sins
,
and
their
Salvations
recorded
together
,
that
you
may
read
,
and
know
what
a
Saviour
he
is
,
and
do
him
honour
in
the
World
.
For
why
are
these
things
thus
recorded
,
but
to
shew
to
sinners
what
he
can
do
,
to
the
praise
and
glory
of
his
grace
?
And
it
is
observable
,
as
I
said
before
,
we
have
but
very
little
of
the
Salvation
of
little
sinners
mentioned
in
God's
Book
,
because
that
would
not
have
answered
the
design
,
to
wit
,
to
bring
glory
and
fame
to
the
Name
of
the
Son
of
God
.
What
should
be
the
reason
,
think
you
,
why
Christ
should
so
easily
take
a
denial
of
the
great
ones
,
that
wear
the
Grandure
of
the
World
,
and
struggle
so
hard
for
Hedg
creepers
and
Highway
men
,
(
as
that
Parable
,
Luke
14.
seems
to
import
he
doth
)
but
to
shew
forth
the
riches
of
the
glory
of
his
Grace
to
his
praise
.
This
,
I
say
,
is
one
Reason
to
be
sure
.
They
that
had
their
Grounds
,
their
yoke
of
Oxen
,
and
their
marriage
Joys
,
were
invited
to
come
;
but
they
made
their
excuse
,
and
that
served
the
turn
.
But
when
he
comes
to
deal
with
the
worst
,
he
saith
to
his
Servants
,
Go
ye
out
and
bring
them
in
hither
.
Go
out
quickly
and
bring
in
hither
the
poor
,
the
maimed
,
the
halt
,
and
the
blind
.
And
they
did
so
.
And
he
said
again
,
Go
out
into
the
high
ways
,
and
hedges
,
and
Compel
them
to
come
in
,
that
my
house
may
be
filled
,
Luk
.
14.18
,
19
,
23.
These
poor
,
lame
,
maimed
,
blind
,
hedg-creepers
,
and
high-way
men
,
Must
come
in
,
Must
be
forced
in
.
These
,
if
saved
,
will
make
his
Merits
shine
.
When
Christ
was
crucified
,
and
hanged
up
between
the
Earth
and
Heavens
,
there
was
two
Thieves
crucified
with
him
;
and
,
behold
,
he
lays
hold
of
one
of
them
,
and
will
have
him
away
with
him
to
Glory
.
Was
not
this
a
strange
act
,
and
a
display
of
unthought-of
grace
?
were
there
none
but
Thieves
there
,
or
were
the
rest
of
that
company
out
of
his
reach
?
Could
he
not
,
think
you
,
have
stooped
from
the
Cross
to
the
Ground
,
and
have
laid
hold
on
some
honester
man
if
he
would
?
Yes
,
doubtless
.
Oh
,
but
then
he
would
not
so
have
displayed
his
Grace
,
nor
so
have
pursued
his
own
designs
;
namely
,
to
get
to
himself
a
praise
and
a
name
;
But
now
he
has
done
it
to
purpose
.
For
who
that
shall
read
this
Story
,
but
must
confess
that
the
Son
of
God
is
full
of
grace
;
for
a
proof
of
the
riches
thereof
,
he
left
behind
him
,
when
upon
the
Cross
,
he
took
the
Thief
away
with
him
to
glory
.
Nor
can
this
one
act
of
his
be
buried
:
It
will
be
talked
of
to
the
end
of
the
World
to
his
praise
.
Men
shall
speak
of
the
might
of
thy
terrible
acts
;
and
will
declare
thy
greatness
.
They
shall
abundantly
utter
the
memory
of
thy
great
goodness
,
and
shall
sing
of
thy
righteousness
.
They
shall
speak
of
the
glory
of
thy
Kingdom
,
and
talk
of
thy
power
.
To
make
known
to
the
Sons
of
men
,
his
mighty
acts
,
and
the
glorious
Majesty
of
his
Kingdom
,
Psal
.
145.6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12.
When
the
Word
of
God
came
among
he
Conjurers
and
those
Sooth-sayers
,
that
you
read
of
Acts
19.
and
had
prevailed
with
some
of
them
to
accept
of
the
grace
of
Christ
,
the
Holy
Ghost
records
it
with
a
boast
,
for
that
it
would
redound
to
his
praise
;
saying
,
And
many
of
them
that
used
curious
Arts
,
brought
their
Books
together
and
burned
them
before
all
men
,
and
counted
the
price
of
them
,
and
found
it
fifty
thousand
pieces
of
Silver
.
So
migheily
grew
the
Word
of
God
and
prevailed
,
Acts
19.19
,
20.
It
wrenched
out
of
the
clutches
of
Satan
,
some
of
those
of
whom
he
thought
himself
most
sure
.
So
mightily
grew
the
Word
of
God
.
It
grew
mightily
,
it
incroached
upon
the
Kingdom
of
the
Devil
!
It
pursued
him
,
and
took
the
prey
:
It
forced
him
to
let
go
his
hold
!
It
brought
away
captive
,
as
Prisoners
taken
by
force
of
Arms
,
some
of
the
most
valiant
of
his
Army
.
It
fetcht
back
from
,
as
it
were
,
the
confines
of
Hell
,
some
of
those
that
were
his
most
trusty
,
and
that
with
Hell
had
been
at
an
agreement
.
It
made
them
come
and
confess
their
deeds
,
and
burn
their
Books
before
all
men
;
So
mightily
grew
the
Word
of
God
,
and
prevailed
.
Thus
therefore
you
see
why
Christ
will
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
.
They
have
most
need
thereof
;
and
this
is
the
most
ready
way
to
extol
his
name
that
rideth
upon
the
Heavens
to
our
help
.
But
,
Thirdly
,
Christ
Jesus
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
Because
by
their
Forgiveness
and
Salvation
,
others
,
hearing
of
it
,
will
be
encouraged
the
more
to
come
to
him
for
Life
.
For
the
Physitian
by
curing
of
the
most
desperate
at
the
first
,
doth
not
only
get
himself
a
Name
,
but
begets
Encouragement
in
the
minds
of
other
diseased
folk
to
come
to
him
for
help
.
Hence
you
read
of
our
Lord
,
that
after
,
through
his
tender
mercy
,
he
had
Cured
many
of
great
Diseases
,
his
Fame
was
spread
abroad
:
They
brought
unto
him
all
sick
People
that
were
taken
with
divers
Diseases
and
Torments
,
and
th●se
which
were
possessed
with
Devils
,
and
those
that
were
Lunatick
,
and
those
that
had
the
Palsie
,
and
he
healed
them
;
and
there
followed
him
great
multitudes
of
People
from
Galilee
,
and
Decapolis
,
and
Jerusalem
,
and
Judea
,
and
from
beyound
Jordan
,
Mat
.
4.24
,
25.
See
here
,
He
first
by
working
,
gets
himself
a
Fame
,
a
Name
,
and
Renown
,
and
now
men
take
Encouragement
,
and
bring
from
all
quarters
their
Diseased
to
him
,
being
helped
by
what
they
had
heard
,
to
believe
that
their
Diseased
should
be
healed
.
Now
,
as
he
did
with
those
outward
Cures
,
so
he
does
in
the
proffers
of
his
Grace
and
Mercy
;
he
proffers
that
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
that
others
may
take
Heart
to
come
to
him
to
be
saved
.
I
will
give
you
a
Scripture
or
two
,
I
mean
,
to
shew
you
that
Christ
by
commanding
that
his
Mercy
should
in
the
first
place
be
offered
to
the
biggest
of
Sinners
,
has
a
design
,
thereby
to
encourage
and
provoke
others
to
come
also
to
him
for
Mercy
.
God
,
saith
Paui
,
who
is
rich
in
Mercy
,
for
his
great
love
wherewith
he
loved
us
,
even
when
we
were
dead
in
our
sins
hath
quickened
us
together
with
Christ
,
(
by
Grace
ye
are
saved
)
and
hath
raised
us
up
together
,
and
made
us
sit
together
in
Heavenly
places
in
Christ
Jesus
.
But
why
did
he
do
all
this
?
That
in
the
Ages
to
come
he
might
shew
the
exceeding
Riches
of
his
Grace
in
his
kindness
towards
us
thorow
Christ
Jesus
,
Ephes
.
2.4
,
5
,
6
,
7.
See
,
here
's
a
design
,
God
let
s
out
his
Mercy
to
Ephesus
of
design
,
even
to
shew
to
the
Ages
to
come
,
the
exceeding
Riches
of
his
Grace
in
his
kindness
to
them
thorow
Christ
Jesus
.
And
why
to
shew
by
these
,
the
exceeding
Riches
of
his
Grace
to
the
Ages
to
come
thorow
Christ
Jesus
?
But
to
alure
,
them
and
their
Children
also
to
come
to
him
,
and
to
partake
of
the
same
Grace
thorow
Christ
Jesus
.
But
what
was
Paul
,
and
the
Ephesian-Sinners
?
(
of
Paul
we
will
speak
anon
)
These
Ephesian-Sinners
,
They
were
men
dead
in
Sins
,
men
that
walked
according
to
the
dictates
and
motions
of
the
Devil
;
worshippers
of
Diana
,
that
Effeminate
Goddess
:
men
far
off
from
God
,
aliens
and
strangers
to
all
good
things
,
such
as
were
far
off
from
that
,
as
I
said
,
and
consequently
in
a
most
deplorable
condition
.
As
the
Jerusalem-Sinners
were
of
the
highest
sort
among
the
Jews
,
so
these
Ephesian
Sinners
were
of
the
highest
sort
among
the
Gentiles
.
(
Ephes
.
2.1
,
2
,
3.
Acts
19.35
.
Ephes
.
2.11
,
12.
)
Wherefore
as
by
the
Jerusalem
sinners
,
in
saving
them
first
,
he
had
a
design
to
provoke
others
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
;
so
,
The
same
design
is
here
set
on
foot
again
,
in
his
calling
and
converting
the
Ephesian-Sinners
;
that
in
the
Ages
to
come
he
might
shew
the
exceeding
Riches
of
his
Grace
,
says
he
,
in
his
kindness
towards
us
thorow
Christ
Jesus
.
There
is
yet
one
hint
behind
.
't
is
said
that
God
saved
these
FOR
his
love
.
That
is
,
as
I
think
,
for
the
setting
forth
,
for
the
commendations
of
his
love
,
for
the
advance
of
his
love
in
the
Hearts
and
minds
of
them
that
should
come
after
.
As
who
should
say
,
God
has
had
Mercy
upon
,
and
been
Gracious
to
you
,
that
he
might
shew
to
others
for
their
encouragement
,
that
they
have
ground
to
come
to
him
to
be
saved
.
When
God
saves
one
great
Sinner
,
't
is
to
encourage
another
great
Sinner
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
He
saved
the
Thief
,
to
encourage
Thieves
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
He
saved
Magdalen
,
to
encourage
other
Magdalens
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
He
saved
Saul
,
to
encourage
Sauls
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
And
this
Paul
himself
doth
say
,
For
this
cause
,
saith
he
,
I
obtained
Mercy
,
that
in
me
first
Jesus
Christ
might
shew
forth
all
long
suffering
for
a
Pattern
to
them
which
should
hereafter
believe
on
him
to
life
everlasting
,
1
Tim
.
1.16
.
How
plain
are
the
words
!
Christ
in
saving
of
me
,
has
given
to
the
World
a
Patern
of
his
Grace
,
that
they
might
see
,
and
believe
,
and
come
,
and
be
saved
.
That
they
that
are
to
be
born
hereafter
,
might
believe
on
Jesus
Christ
to
life
everlasting
.
But
what
was
Paul
?
Why
he
tells
you
himself
,
I
am
,
says
he
,
the
chief
of
Sinners
;
I
was
,
says
he
,
a
Blasphemer
,
a
Persecutor
;
an
injurious
Person
:
but
I
obtained
Mercy
,
1
Tim
.
1.14
,
15.
Ay
,
that
's
well
for
you
Paul
;
but
what
advantage
have
we
thereby
?
Oh
very
much
,
saith
he
;
For
,
for
this
cause
I
obtained
Mercy
,
that
in
me
First
,
Jesus
Christ
might
shew
all
long
suffering
for
a
pattern
to
them
which
shall
believe
on
him
to
life
everlasting
.
Thus
therefore
you
see
that
this
third
Reason
is
of
strength
,
namely
,
That
Jesus
Christ
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
because
,
by
their
Forgiveness
and
Salvation
,
others
,
hearing
of
it
,
will
be
encouraged
the
more
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
It
may
well
therefore
be
said
to
God
,
Thou
delightest
in
Mercy
,
and
Mercy
pleases
thee
,
Mich
.
7.18
.
But
who
believes
that
this
was
Gods
design
in
shewing
Mercy
of
old
?
Namely
,
That
we
that
come
after
might
take
courage
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
;
or
that
Jesus
Christ
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
to
stir
up
others
to
come
to
him
for
Life
.
This
is
not
the
manner
of
men
!
O
God!
But
David
saw
this
betimes
,
therefore
he
makes
this
one
Argument
with
God
,
That
he
would
blot
out
his
Transgressions
,
that
he
would
forgive
his
Adultery
,
his
Murders
,
and
horrible
Hypocrisy
.
Do
it
,
O
Lord
,
saith
he
,
do
it
,
And
then
will
I
teach
Transgressors
thy
ways
,
and
Sinners
shall
be
Converted
unto
thee
,
Psal
.
51.7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13.
He
knew
that
the
Conversion
of
Sinners
would
be
a
work
highly
pleasing
to
God
,
as
being
that
which
he
had
designed
before
he
made
Mountain
or
Hill
:
Wherefore
he
comes
,
and
he
saith
,
Save
me
,
O
Lord
;
if
thou
wilt
but
save
me
,
I
will
fall
in
with
thy
design
.
I
will
help
to
bring
what
Sinners
to
thee
I
can
.
And
Lord
,
I
am
willing
to
be
made
a
Preacher
my self
,
for
that
I
have
been
a
horrible
Sinner
;
wherefore
,
if
thou
shalt
forgive
my
great
Transgressions
,
I
shall
be
a
fit
man
to
tell
of
thy
wonderous
Grace
to
others
.
Yea
,
Lord
,
I
dare
promise
,
that
if
thou
wilt
have
mercy
upon
me
,
it
shall
tend
to
the
glory
of
thy
Grace
,
and
also
to
the
increase
of
thy
Kingdom
;
for
I
will
tell
it
,
and
Sinners
will
hear
on
't
.
And
there
is
nothing
so
suiteth
with
the
hearing
Sinner
,
as
Mercy
:
and
to
be
inform'd
that
God
is
willing
to
bestow
it
upon
him
.
I
will
teach
Transgressors
thy
ways
,
and
Sinners
shall
be
Converted
unto
thee
.
Nor
will
Christ
Jesus
miss
of
his
design
in
profering
of
Mercy
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
.
You
know
what
work
the
Lord
,
by
laying
hold
of
the
Woman
of
Samaria
,
made
among
the
People
there
.
They
knew
that
she
was
a
Town-Sinner
,
an
Adultress
.
Yea
,
one
that
after
the
most
audacious
manner
,
lived
in
Uncleanness
with
a
man
that
was
not
her
Husband
.
But
when
she
,
from
a
turn
upon
her
Heart
,
went
into
the
City
,
and
said
to
her
Neighbours
,
Come
;
Oh
how
they
came
!
how
they
flocked
out
of
the
City
to
Jesus
Christ
!
Then
they
went
out
of
the
City
,
and
came
to
him
,
and
many
of
the
Samaritans
(
People
perhaps
as
bad
as
her self
)
believed
on
him
,
for
the
saying
of
the
woman
,
which
testified
,
saying
,
He
told
me
all
that
ever
I
did
(
John
4.39
.
)
That
word
,
He
told
me
all
that
ever
I
did
,
was
a
great
Argument
with
them
;
for
by
that
they
gathered
,
That
tho
he
knew
her
to
be
vile
,
yet
he
did
not
despise
her
,
nor
refuse
to
shew
how
willing
he
was
to
communicate
his
Grace
unto
her
:
And
this
fetched
over
,
first
her
,
then
them
.
This
woman
,
as
I
said
,
was
a
Samaritan-Sinner
,
a
Sinner
of
the
worst
Complexion
.
For
the
Jews
abhorred
to
have
ought
to
do
with
them
(
verse
9.
)
wherefore
none
more
fit
then
she
to
be
made
one
of
the
Decoys
of
Heaven
,
to
bring
others
of
these
Samaritan
Wild-Fowls
under
the
Net
of
the
Grace
of
Christ
.
And
she
did
the
work
to
purpose
.
Many
,
and
many
more
of
the
Samaritans
believed
on
him
,
Verse
40
,
41
,
42.
The
Heart
of
man
,
tho
set
on
Sin
,
will
,
when
it
comes
once
to
a
perswasion
that
God
is
willing
to
have
Mercy
upon
us
,
incline
to
come
to
Jesus
Christ
for
life
;
witness
those
turn-a
ways
from
God
,
that
you
also
read
of
in
Jeremiah
;
for
after
they
had
heard
three
or
four
times
over
,
that
God
had
Mercy
for
backsliders
,
they
broke
out
and
said
,
Behold
,
we
come
unto
thee
,
for
thou
art
the
Lord
our
God
.
Or
as
those
in
Hosea
did
,
For
in
thee
the
Fatherless
find
mercy
.
(
Jer
.
3.22
.
Hos
.
14.1
,
2
,
3.
)
Mercy
,
and
the
revelation
thereof
,
is
the
only
Antidote
against
Sin
.
't
is
of
a
thawing
nature
:
't
will
loose
the
Heart
that
is
frozen
up
in
Sin
:
yea
,
't
will
make
the
Unwilling
willing
to
come
to
Jesus
Christ
for
Life
.
Wherefore
do
you
think
was
it
that
Jesus
Christ
told
the
Adulterous
woman
,
and
that
before
so
many
Sinners
,
That
he
had
not
Condemned
her
,
but
to
alure
her
,
with
them
there
present
,
to
hope
to
find
favour
at
his
hands
.
(
As
he
also
saith
in
another
place
,
I
came
not
to
Judge
,
but
to
Save
the
World
)
for
might
they
not
thence
most
rationally
conclude
,
That
if
Jesus
Christ
had
rather
save
,
then
damn
an
Harlot
,
there
was
encouragement
for
them
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
I
heard
once
a
story
from
a
Souldier
,
who
with
his
Company
had
laid
Siege
against
a
Fort
,
that
so
long
as
the
Besieged
were
perswaded
their
Foes
would
show
them
no
favour
,
they
Fought
like
Madmen
;
but
when
they
saw
one
of
their
Fellows
taken
,
and
received
to
favour
,
they
all
came
tumbling
down
from
their
Fortress
,
and
delivered
themselves
into
their
Enemies
hands
.
I
am
perswaded
,
did
men
believe
that
there
is
that
Grace
and
Willingness
in
the
Heart
of
Christ
to
save
Sinners
,
as
the
Word
import
there
is
,
they
would
come
tumbling
into
his
Arms
:
But
Satan
has
blinded
their
Minds
,
that
they
cannot
see
this
thing
.
Howbeit
the
Lord
Jesus
has
,
as
I
said
,
that
others
might
take
Heart
and
come
to
him
,
given
out
a
commandment
that
Mercy
should
in
the
first
place
be
offered
to
the
biggest
Sinners
.
Begin
,
saith
he
,
at
Jerusalem
.
And
thus
I
end
the
third
Reason
.
Fourthly
,
Jesus
Christ
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
Because
that
is
the
way
,
if
they
receive
it
,
most
to
weaken
the
Kingdom
of
Satan
,
and
to
keep
it
lowest
in
every
Age
of
the
World
.
The
biggest
Sinners
,
they
are
Satans
Colonels
,
and
Captains
,
the
Leaders
of
his
People
,
and
they
that
most
stoutly
make
Head
against
the
Son
of
God
.
Wherefore
let
these
first
be
conquered
,
and
his
Kingdom
will
be
weak
.
When
Ishbosheth
had
lost
his
Abner
,
his
Kingdom
was
made
weak
,
nor
did
he
sit
but
tottering
then
upon
his
Throne
.
So
when
Satan
loseth
his
strong
men
,
them
that
are
mighty
to
work
Iniquity
,
and
dextrous
to
manage
others
in
the
same
,
then
is
his
Kingdom
weak
(
2
Sam
.
3
)
Therefore
I
say
,
Christ
doth
offer
Mercy
in
the
first
place
to
such
,
the
more
to
weaken
his
Kingdom
.
Christ
Jesus
was
gl●d
to
see
Satan
fall
like
Lightning
from
Heaven
,
that
is
suddenly
or
headlong
;
and
it
was
,
surely
,
by
casting
of
him
out
of
strong
Possessions
,
and
by
recovering
of
some
notorious
Sinners
out
of
his
Clutches
,
(
Luke
10.17
,
18
,
19.
)
Sampson
,
when
he
would
pull
down
the
Philistians
Temple
,
took
hold
of
the
two
main
Pillars
of
it
,
and
breaking
them
,
down
came
the
House
.
Christ
came
to
destroy
the
works
of
the
Devil
,
and
to
destroy
by
converting
Grace
,
as
well
as
by
redeeming
Blood
.
Now
Sin
swarms
and
lieth
by
Legions
,
and
whole
Armies
,
in
the
Souls
of
the
biggest
Sinners
,
as
in
Garrisons
:
Wherefore
the
way
,
the
most
direct
way
to
destroy
it
,
is
first
to
deal
with
such
Sinners
,
by
the
Word
of
his
Gospel
,
and
by
the
Merits
of
his
Passion
.
For
Example
,
tho
I
shall
give
you
but
a
homely
one
;
Suppose
a
Family
to
be
very
Lowzy
,
and
one
or
two
of
the
Family
to
be
in
chief
the
breeders
;
the
way
,
the
quickest
way
,
to
clear
that
Family
,
or
at
least
to
weaken
the
so
swarming
of
those
Vermine
,
is
,
in
the
first
place
to
sweeten
the
Skin
,
Head
,
and
Cloaths
of
the
chief
breeders
:
And
then
,
though
all
the
Family
should
be
apt
to
breed
them
,
the
number
of
them
,
and
so
the
greatness
of
that
Plague
there
,
will
be
the
more
impaired
.
Why
,
there
are
some
people
that
are
in
chief
the
Devils
Sin-breeders
in
the
Towns
and
Places
where
they
live
.
The
Place
,
Town
,
or
Family
where
they
live
,
must
needs
be
horrible
lowsie
,
and
as
it
were
,
eaten
up
with
Vermin
:
Now
let
the
Lord
Jesus
in
the
first
place
cleanse
these
great
breeders
,
and
there
will
be
given
a
nip
to
those
swarms
of
Sins
that
use
to
be
committed
in
such
places
throughout
the
Town
,
House
,
or
Family
where
such
sin-breeding
Persons
used
to
be
.
I
speak
by
Experience
;
I
was
one
of
these
lowzy
ones
,
one
of
these
great
sin-breeders
;
I
infected
all
the
Youth
of
the
Town
where
I
was
born
,
with
all
manner
of
youthful
Vanities
.
The
neighbours
counted
me
so
,
my
practise
proved
me
so
:
Wherefore
Christ
Jesus
took
me
first
;
and
taking
me
first
,
the
Contagion
was
much
allayed
all
the
Town
over
.
When
God
made
me
sigh
,
they
would
harken
,
and
enquiringly
say
,
What
's
the
matter
with
John
?
They
also
gave
their
various
opinions
of
me
;
But
as
I
said
,
Sin
cooled
,
and
failed
,
as
to
his
full
carrier
.
When
I
went
out
to
seek
the
Bread
of
Life
,
some
of
them
would
follow
,
and
the
rest
be
put
into
a
muse
at
home
.
Yea
,
almost
the
Town
,
at
first
,
at
times
,
would
go
out
to
hear
at
the
place
where
I
found
good
:
Yea
,
young
and
old
for
a
while
had
some
reformation
on
them
;
also
some
of
them
perceiving
that
God
had
mercy
upon
me
,
came
crying
to
him
for
mercy
too
.
But
what
need
,
I
give
you
an
Instance
of
poor
I
;
I
will
come
to
Manasseth
the
King
:
So
long
as
he
was
a
ringleading
Sinner
,
the
great
Idolater
,
and
chief
for
Devilism
,
the
whole
Land
flowed
with
wickedness
;
For
he
made
them
to
sin
,
and
do
worse
than
the
Heathen
that
dwelt
round
about
them
,
or
that
was
cast
out
from
before
them
.
But
when
God
converted
him
,
the
whole
Land
was
reformed
.
Down
went
the
Groves
,
the
Idols
,
and
Altars
of
Baal
,
and
up
went
true
Religion
in
much
of
the
Power
and
Purity
of
it
.
You
'll
say
,
The
King
reformed
by
Power
.
I
answer
,
doubtless
,
and
by
Example
too
;
for
People
observe
their
Leaders
;
as
their
Fathers
did
,
so
did
they
,
2
Chron
.
33.
2
King
.
17.41
.
This
therefore
is
another
Reason
,
why
Jesus
would
have
mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
because
that
is
the
best
way
,
if
they
receive
it
,
most
to
weaken
the
kingdom
of
Satan
,
and
to
keep
it
poor
and
low
.
And
do
you
not
think
now
,
that
i●…
God
would
but
take
hold
of
the
hearts
of
some
of
the
most
notorious
in
your
Town
,
in
your
Family
,
or
Countrey
,
that
this
thing
would
be
verified
before
your
faces
?
It
would
,
it
would
,
to
the
Joy
of
you
that
are
godly
,
to
the
making
of
Hell
to
sigh
,
to
the
great
suppressing
of
Sin
,
the
glory
of
Christ
,
and
the
joy
of
the
Angels
of
God
.
And
Ministers
should
therefore
,
that
this
Work
might
go
on
,
take
advantages
to
perswade
with
the
biggest
Sinners
to
come
into
Christ
,
according
to
my
Text
,
and
their
Commissions
:
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
Fifthly
,
Jesus
Christ
would
have
mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
Because
such
,
when
converted
,
are
usually
the
best
helps
in
the
Church
against
temptations
,
and
fittest
for
the
support
of
the
feeble
minded
there
.
Hence
,
usually
,
you
have
some
such
in
the
first
plantation
of
Churches
;
or
quickly
upon
it
.
Churches
would
do
but
sorrily
,
if
Christ
Jesus
did
not
put
such
Converts
among
them
;
they
are
the
Monuments
and
Mirrors
of
Mercy
.
The
very
sight
of
such
a
Sinner
in
God's
House
,
yea
,
the
very
thought
of
him
,
where
the
sight
of
him
cannot
be
had
is
oft
times
greatly
for
the
help
of
the
Faith
of
the
feeble
.
When
the
Churches
(
said
Paul
)
that
were
in
Judea
,
heard
this
concerning
me
,
that
he
which
persecuted
them
in
time
past
,
now
preached
the
Faith
which
once
he
destroyed
,
They
glorified
God
in
me
,
Gal.
1.20
,
21
,
22
,
23
,
24.
Glorified
God
]
How
is
that
?
Why
,
they
praised
him
,
and
took
courage
to
believe
the
more
in
the
mercy
of
God
:
For
that
he
had
had
mercy
on
such
a
great
sinner
as
he
.
They
glorified
God
[
in
me
]
They
wondred
that
Grace
should
he
so
rich
,
as
to
take
hold
of
such
a
Wretch
as
I
was
;
and
for
my
sake
believed
in
Christ
the
more
.
There
are
two
things
that
great
si●ners
are
acquainted
with
,
when
they
come
to
divulge
them
to
the
Saints
,
that
are
a
great
relief
to
their
Faith
.
1.
The
Contests
that
they
usually
have
with
the
Devil
at
their
parting
with
him
.
2.
Their
knowledge
of
his
Secrets
in
his
workings
.
For
the
First
,
The
biggest
sinners
have
usually
great
contests
with
the
Devil
at
their
partings
;
and
this
is
an
help
to
Saints
.
For
ordinary
Saints
find
afterwards
what
the
vile
ones
find
at
first
;
but
when
at
the
opening
of
hearts
the
one
finds
himself
to
be
as
the
other
,
the
one
is
a
comfort
to
the
other
.
The
lesser
sort
of
sinners
find
but
little
of
this
,
till
after
they
have
been
some
time
in
profession
;
but
the
Vile
Man
meets
with
his
at
the
beginning
.
Wherefore
he
,
when
the
other
is
down
,
is
ready
to
tell
that
he
has
met
with
the
same
before
.
For
I
say
,
he
has
had
it
before
.
Satan
is
loth
to
part
with
a
great
sinner
.
What
,
my
true
Servant
(
quoth
he
)
my
old
Servant
,
wilt
thou
forsake
me
now
?
Having
so
often
sold
thy self
to
me
to
work
wickedness
,
wilt
thou
forsake
me
now
?
Thou
horrible
Wretch
,
dost
not
know
,
that
thou
hast
sinned
thy self
beyond
the
reach
of
Grace
,
and
dost
think
to
find
Mercy
now
?
Art
not
thou
a
Murderer
,
a
Thief
,
a
Harlot
,
a
Witch
,
a
sinner
of
the
greatest
size
,
and
dost
thou
look
for
mercy
now
?
dost
thou
think
that
Christ
will
foul
his
fingers
with
thee
?
't
is
enough
to
make
Angels
blush
,
saith
Satan
,
to
see
so
vile
a
one
knock
at
Heaven
gates
for
Mercy
,
and
wilt
thou
be
so
abominable
bold
to
do
it
?
Thus
Satan
dealt
with
me
,
says
the
great
Sinner
,
when
at
first
I
came
to
Jesus
Christ
.
And
what
did
you
reply
,
saith
the
Tempted
?
Why
,
I
granted
the
whole
Charge
to
be
true
,
says
the
other
.
And
what
,
did
you
dispair
?
or
how
?
No
(
saith
he
)
I
said
,
I
am
Magdalene
,
I
am
Zacheus
,
I
am
the
Thief
,
I
am
the
Harlot
,
I
am
the
Publican
,
I
am
the
Prodigal
,
and
one
of
Christ's
Murderers
:
Yea
,
worse
than
any
of
these
,
and
yet
God
was
so
far
off
from
rejecting
of
me
(
as
I
found
afterwards
)
that
there
was
musick
and
dancing
in
his
House
for
me
,
and
for
Joy
that
I
was
come
home
unto
him
.
Oh
blessed
be
God
for
Grace
,
(
says
the
other
)
for
then
I
hope
there
is
favour
for
me
.
Yea
,
as
I
told
you
,
such
a
one
is
a
continual
Spectacle
in
the
Church
,
for
every
one
by
,
to
behold
God's
grace
,
and
wonder
!
Secondly
,
And
as
for
the
Secrets
of
Satan
,
such
as
are
Suggestions
to
question
the
Being
of
God
,
the
truth
of
his
Word
,
and
to
be
annoyed
with
devilish
Blasphemies
:
None
more
acquainted
with
these
than
the
biggest
sinners
at
their
Conversion
;
wherefore
thus
also
they
are
prepared
to
be
helps
in
the
Church
to
relieve
and
comfort
the
other
.
I
might
also
here
tell
you
of
the
Contests
and
Battels
that
such
are
engaged
in
,
wherein
they
find
the
buffettings
of
Satan
,
above
any
other
the
Saints
.
At
which
times
Satan
assaults
the
Soul
with
darkness
,
fears
,
frightful
thoughts
of
Apparitions
;
now
they
sweat
,
pant
,
cry
out
,
and
struggle
for
life
.
The
Angels
now
come
down
to
behold
the
sight
,
and
rejoyce
to
see
a
bit
of
Dust
and
Ashes
to
overcome
Principalities
and
Powers
,
and
Might
,
and
Dominions
.
But
,
as
I
said
,
when
these
come
a
little
to
be
setled
,
they
are
prepared
for
help
for
others
,
and
are
great
Comforts
unto
unto
them
.
Their
great
sins
give
encouragement
to
the
Devil
to
assault
them
,
and
by
these
temptations
Christ
takes
advantage
to
make
them
the
more
helpful
to
the
Churches
.
The
biggest
sinner
,
when
he
is
Converted
and
comes
into
the
Church
,
says
to
them
all
,
by
his
very
coming
in
,
Behold
me
,
all
you
that
are
Men
and
Women
of
a
low
and
timorous
spirit
;
you
whose
hearts
are
narrow
,
for
that
you
never
had
the
advantage
to
know
,
because
your
sins
are
few
,
the
largeness
of
the
grace
of
God
.
Behold
,
I
say
,
in
me
,
the
exceeding
riches
of
his
grace
!
I
am
a
Pattern
set
forth
before
your
faces
,
on
whom
you
may
look
and
take
heart
.
This
,
I
say
,
the
great
sinner
can
say
,
to
the
exceeding
comfort
of
all
the
rest
.
Wherefore
,
as
I
have
hinted
before
,
when
God
intends
to
stock
a
place
with
Saints
,
and
to
make
that
place
excellently
to
flourish
with
the
riches
of
his
grace
,
he
usually
begins
with
the
Conversion
of
some
of
the
most
notorious
there
abouts
,
and
lays
them
as
an
Example
to
allure
others
,
and
to
build
up
when
they
are
converted
.
't
was
Paul
that
must
go
to
the
Gentiles
,
because
Paul
was
the
most
outragious
of
all
the
Apostles
,
in
the
time
of
his
unregeneracy
:
Yea
,
Peter
must
be
he
that
after
his
horrible
fall
,
was
thought
fittest
,
when
recovered
again
,
to
comfort
and
strengthen
his
Brethren
.
See
Luke
22.31
,
32.
Some
must
be
Pillars
in
God's
House
,
and
if
they
be
Pillars
of
Cedar
,
they
must
stand
while
they
are
stout
and
sturdy
sticks
in
the
Forrest
,
before
they
are
cut
down
,
and
planted
or
placed
there
.
No
man
,
when
he
buildeth
his
House
,
makes
the
principal
parts
thereof
,
of
weak
or
feeble
Timber
;
for
how
could
such
bear
up
the
rest
;
but
of
great
and
able
Wood
.
Christ
Jesus
also
goeth
this
way
to
work
,
he
makes
of
the
biggest
Sinners
,
Bearers
and
Supporters
to
the
rest
.
This
then
may
serve
for
another
Reason
,
why
Jesus
Christ
gives
out
in
Commandment
,
that
Mercy
should
in
the
first
place
be
offered
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
Because
such
when
converted
,
are
usually
the
best
helps
in
the
Church
against
temptations
,
and
fittest
for
the
support
of
the
feeble-minded
there
.
Sixthly
,
Another
reason
,
why
Jesus
Christ
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
is
,
Because
They
,
when
converted
,
are
apt
to
love
him
most
.
This
agrees
both
with
Scripture
,
and
Reason
.
Scripture
says
so
.
To
whom
much
is
forgiven
,
the
same
loveth
much
.
To
whom
little
is
forgiven
,
the
same
loveth
little
,
Luk
.
7.47
.
Reason
says
so
.
For
as
it
would
be
the
unreasonablest
thing
in
the
world
,
to
render
hatred
for
love
,
and
contempt
for
forgiveness
;
so
't
would
be
as
ridiculous
to
think
that
the
reception
of
a
little
kindness
should
lay
the
same
obligations
upon
the
heart
to
love
,
as
the
reception
of
a
great
deal
.
I
would
not
disparage
the
love
of
Christ
;
I
know
the
least
dram
of
it
,
when
it
reaches
to
forgiveness
,
is
great
above
all
the
world
;
But
comparatively
,
there
is
greater
extentions
of
the
love
of
Christ
,
to
one
,
than
to
another
:
He
that
has
most
sin
,
if
forgiven
,
is
partaker
of
the
greatest
love
,
of
the
greatest
forgiveness
.
I
know
also
,
that
there
are
some
,
that
from
this
very
Doctrine
,
say
,
Let
us
do
evil
,
that
good
may
come
;
and
that
turn
the
Grace
of
our
God
into
Lasciviousness
.
But
I
speak
not
of
these
,
These
will
neither
be
ruled
by
Grace
nor
Reason
.
Grace
would
teach
them
,
if
they
know
it
,
to
deny
Ungodly
Courses
;
and
so
would
Reason
too
,
if
it
could
truly
sense
the
Love
of
God
,
Tim
.
2.11
,
12.
Rom.
11.1
.
Doth
it
look
like
what
hath
any
Coherence
with
Reason
or
Mercy
,
for
a
man
to
abuse
his
Friend
?
Because
Christ
died
for
men
,
shall
I
therefore
Spit
in
his
Face
?
The
Bread
and
Water
that
was
given
by
Elisha
to
his
Enemies
,
that
came
into
the
Land
of
Israel
to
take
him
,
had
so
much
influence
upon
their
Minds
,
tho
Heathens
,
that
they
returned
to
their
homes
without
hurting
him
:
Yea
,
it
kept
them
from
coming
again
in
a
hostile
manner
into
the
Coasts
of
Israel
,
2
Kings
6.19
,
20
,
21
,
22
,
23.
But
to
forbear
to
Illustrate
till
anon
;
one
reason
why
Christ
Jesus
shews
Mercy
to
Sinners
,
is
that
he
might
obtain
their
Love
,
that
he
may
r●move
their
base
affections
,
from
base
objects
,
to
himself
.
Now
if
he
loves
to
be
loved
a
little
,
he
loves
to
be
loved
much
;
but
there
is
not
any
that
are
capable
of
loving
much
,
save
those
that
have
much
forgiven
them
.
Hence
't
is
said
of
Paul
,
That
he
laboured
more
than
them
all
,
to
wit
,
with
a
labour
of
love
,
because
he
had
been
by
Sin
more
vile
against
Christ
than
they
all
,
1
Cor
.
15.
He
it
was
that
persecuted
the
Church
of
God
,
and
wasted
it
,
Gal.
1.13
.
He
,
of
them
all
,
was
the
only
raving
Bedlam
against
the
Saints
:
And
being
exceeding
mad
,
says
he
,
against
them
,
I
persecuted
them
even
to
strange
Cities
,
Acts
26.11
.
This
raving
Bedlam
,
that
once
was
so
,
is
he
that
now
says
,
I
laboured
more
then
them
all
;
more
for
Christ
then
them
all
.
But
Paul
,
what
moved
thee
thus
to
do
?
The
love
of
Christ
,
says
he
.
It
was
not
I
,
but
the
grace
of
God
that
was
with
me
.
As
who
should
say
;
O
Grace
!
't
was
such
Grace
to
save
me
!
't
was
such
marvellous
Grace
for
God
to
look
down
from
Heaven
upon
me
,
and
that
secured
me
from
the
wrath
to
come
,
that
I
am
captivated
with
the
sense
of
the
riches
of
it
.
Hence
I
act
,
hence
I
labour
;
For
how
can
I
otherwise
do
,
since
God
not
only
separated
me
from
my
Sins
and
Companions
,
but
separated
all
the
powers
of
my
Soul
and
Body
to
his
Service
?
I
am
therefore
prompted
on
by
this
exceeding
love
,
to
labour
as
I
have
done
;
yet
not
I
,
but
the
grace
of
God
with
me
.
Oh!
I
shall
never
forget
his
love
,
nor
the
circumstances
under
which
I
was
,
when
his
love
laid
hold
upon
me
.
I
was
going
to
Damascus
with
Letters
from
the
High
Priest
to
make
Havock
of
God's
People
there
,
as
I
had
made
Havock
of
them
in
other
places
.
These
bloody
Letters
was
not
imposed
upon
me
.
I
went
to
the
High
Priest
and
desired
them
of
him
,
Acts
9.1
,
2.
And
yet
he
saved
me
!
I
was
one
of
the
men
,
of
the
chief
men
that
had
a
hand
in
the
Blood
of
his
Martyr
Stephen
,
yet
he
had
mercy
on
me
!
When
I
was
at
Damascus
,
I
stunck
so
horribly
like
a
Blood
sucker
,
that
I
became
a
Terrour
to
all
thereabout
:
Yea
,
Ananias
(
good
man
)
made
intercession
to
my
Lord
against
me
,
yet
he
would
have
mercy
upon
me
!
Yea
,
joyned
mercy
to
mercy
,
untill
he
had
made
me
a
monument
of
grace
.
He
made
a
Saint
of
me
,
and
perswaded
me
,
that
my
transgressions
were
forgiven
me
.
When
I
began
to
preach
,
those
that
heard
me
were
amazed
;
and
said
,
Is
not
this
he
that
destroyed
them
that
called
on
this
Name
in
Jerusalem
,
and
came
hither
for
that
intent
,
that
he
might
bring
them
bound
to
the
High
Priest
?
Hell
doth
know
that
I
was
a
Sinner
;
Heaven
doth
know
that
I
was
a
Sinner
:
The
World
also
knows
that
I
was
a
Sinner
,
a
Sinner
of
the
greatest
size
;
but
I
obtained
mercy
,
Acts
9.20
,
21.
Shall
not
this
lay
Obligation
upon
me
?
Is
not
Love
of
the
greatest
force
to
oblige
?
Is
it
not
strong
as
Death
?
Cruel
as
the
Grave
?
and
hotter
than
the
Coals
of
Juniper
?
Hath
it
not
a
most
vehement
flame
?
Can
the
Waters
quench
it
?
Can
the
Flouds
drown
it
?
I
am
under
the
force
of
it
,
and
this
is
my
continual
cry
,
What
shall
I
render
to
the
Lord
for
all
the
Benefits
,
which
he
has
bestowed
upon
me
?
Ay!
Paul
,
this
is
something
,
thou
speakest
like
a
Man
,
like
a
man
affected
,
and
carried
away
with
the
love
and
grace
of
God
.
Now
this
sense
,
and
this
affection
,
and
this
labour
,
giveth
to
Christ
the
love
that
he
looks
for
.
But
he
might
have
converted
twenty
little
sinners
,
and
yet
not
found
,
for
grace
bestowed
,
So
much
love
in
them
all
,
I
wonder
how
far
a
man
might
go
among
the
Converted
Sinners
of
the
smaller
size
,
before
one
could
find
one
that
so
much
as
looks
any
thing
this
wayward
.
Where
is
he
that
is
thus
under
pangs
of
love
for
the
Grace
bestowed
upon
him
by
Jesus
Christ
?
Excepting
only
some
few
;
you
may
walk
to
the
Worlds
end
and
find
none
.
But
,
as
I
said
,
some
there
are
,
and
so
there
has
been
in
every
age
of
the
Church
,
great
sinners
,
that
have
had
much
forgiven
them
.
And
they
love
much
upon
this
account
.
Jesus
Christ
therefore
knows
what
he
doth
,
when
he
lays
hold
on
the
hearts
of
sinners
of
the
biggest
size
.
He
knows
that
such
an
one
will
love
more
than
many
that
have
not
sinned
half
their
sins
.
I
will
tell
you
a
Story
that
I
have
read
of
Martha
and
Mary
;
the
Name
of
the
Book
I
have
forgot
.
I
mean
of
the
book
in
which
I
sound
the
Relation
;
but
the
thing
was
thus
.
Martha
,
saith
my
Author
,
was
a
very
holy
Woman
,
much
like
Lazarus
,
her
Brother
;
but
Mary
was
a
loose
and
wanton
creature
.
Martha
did
seldom
miss
good
Sermons
,
and
Lectures
,
when
she
could
come
at
them
in
Jerusalem
;
but
Mary
would
frequent
the
house
of
Sports
,
and
the
company
of
the
vilest
of
Men
for
lust
.
And
though
Martha
had
often
desired
that
her
Sifter
would
go
with
her
to
hear
her
Preachers
:
Yea
,
had
often
entreated
her
with
Tears
,
to
do
it
,
yet
could
she
never
prevail
;
for
still
Mary
would
make
her
excuse
,
or
reject
her
with
disdain
for
her
Zeal
and
Preciseness
in
Religion
.
After
Martha
had
waited
long
,
tried
many
ways
to
bring
her
Sister
to
good
,
and
all
proved
ineffectual
.
At
last
,
she
comes
upon
her
thus
.
Sister
,
quoth
she
,
I
pray-thee
go
with
me
to
the
Temple
to
day
,
to
hear
one
preach
a
Sermon
.
What
kind
of
Preacher
is
he
,
said
she
?
Martha
replied
,
It
is
one
Jesus
of
Nazareth
,
he
is
the
handsomest
man
that
ever
you
saw
with
your
eyes
.
Oh!
he
shines
in
Beauty
,
and
is
a
most
excellent
Preacher
.
Now
what
does
Mary
?
After
a
little
pause
,
but
goes
up
into
her
Chamber
,
and
with
her
Pins
and
her
Clouts
,
decks
up
her self
as
sine
as
her
fingers
could
make
her
.
This
done
,
away
she
goes
,
not
with
her
Sister
Martha
,
but
as
much
unobserved
as
she
could
,
to
the
Sermon
,
or
rather
to
See
the
Preacher
.
The
Hour
and
Preacher
being
come
,
and
she
having
observed
whereabout
the
Preacher
would
stand
,
goes
and
sets
her self
so
in
the
Temple
,
that
she
might
be
sure
to
have
the
full
view
of
this
excellent
Person
.
So
he
comes
in
,
and
she
looks
,
and
the
first
glimps
of
his
Person
pleased
her
.
Well
,
Jesus
addresseth
himself
to
his
Sermon
,
and
she
looks
earnestly
on
him
.
Now
at
that
time
,
saith
my
Author
,
Jesus
preached
about
the
lost
Sheep
,
the
lost
Groat
,
and
the
prodigal
Child
.
And
when
he
came
to
shew
what
care
the
Shepherd
took
for
one
lost
Sheep
,
and
how
the
Woman
swept
to
find
her
Piece
which
was
lost
,
and
what
Joy
there
was
at
their
finding
;
she
began
to
be
taken
by
the
Ears
,
and
forgot
what
she
came
about
,
musing
what
the
Preacher
would
make
on
't
:
But
when
he
came
to
the
Application
,
and
shewed
that
by
the
lost
Sheep
was
meant
a
great
Sinner
;
by
the
Shepherds
care
was
meant
God's
love
for
great
Sinners
;
and
that
by
the
joy
of
the
Neighbours
,
was
shewed
what
joy
there
was
among
the
Angels
in
Heaven
over
one
great
Sinner
that
repenteth
;
She
began
to
be
taken
by
the
Heart
.
And
as
he
spake
these
last
words
,
she
thought
he
pitched
his
innocent
Eyes
just
upon
her
,
and
looked
as
if
he
spake
what
was
now
said
,
to
her
.
Wherefore
her
heart
began
to
tremble
,
being
shaken
with
affection
and
fear
;
then
her
Eyes
run
down
with
tears
apace
;
wherefore
she
was
forced
to
hide
her
face
with
her
Handkerchief
,
and
so
sat
sobbing
and
crying
all
the
rest
of
the
Sermon
.
Sermon
being
done
,
up
she
gets
,
and
away
she
goes
,
and
withall
,
enquired
where
this
Jesus
the
Preacher
dined
that
day
?
And
one
told
her
,
at
the
house
of
Simon
the
Pharisee
.
So
away
goes
she
,
first
to
her
Chamber
,
and
there
strips
her self
of
her
wanton
Attire
;
then
falls
upon
her
knees
to
ask
God
forgiveness
for
all
her
wicked
life
.
This
done
,
in
a
modest
dress
she
goes
to
Simon's
house
,
where
she
finds
Jesus
set
at
Dinner
.
So
she
gets
behind
him
,
and
weeps
,
and
drops
her
tears
upon
his
Feet
like
Rain
,
and
washes
them
,
and
wipes
them
with
the
Hairs
of
her
Head
.
She
also
kissed
his
Feet
with
her
Lips
,
and
anointed
them
with
Oyntment
.
When
Simon
the
Pharisee
perceived
what
the
Woman
did
,
and
being
ignorant
of
what
it
was
to
be
forgiven
much
(
for
he
never
was
forgiven
more
than
Fifty
Pence
.
)
He
began
to
think
within
himself
,
that
he
had
been
mistaken
about
Jesus
Christ
,
because
he
suffered
such
a
Sinner
as
this
Woman
was
,
to
touch
him
.
Surely
,
quoth
he
,
this
Man
,
if
he
were
a
Prophet
,
would
not
let
this
Woman
come
near
him
,
for
she
is
a
Town
Sinner
,
(
so
ignorant
are
all
Self-righteous
men
of
the
way
of
Christ
with
Sinners
.
)
But
lest
Mary
should
be
discouraged
with
some
clownish
carriage
of
this
Pharisee
,
and
so
desert
her
good
beginnings
,
and
her
new
steps
which
she
now
had
began
to
take
towards
eternal
Life
,
Jesus
began
thus
with
Simon
.
Simon
,
saith
he
,
I
have
somewhat
to
say
unto
thee
.
And
he
saith
,
Master
,
say
on
.
There
was
,
said
Jesus
,
a
certain
Creditor
had
two
Debtors
,
the
one
owed
him
Five
hundred
pence
,
and
the
other
,
Fifty
.
And
when
they
had
nothing
to
pay
,
he
frankly
forgave
them
both
.
Tell
me
therefore
which
of
them
will
love
him
most
?
Simon
answered
and
said
,
I
suppose
he
to
whom
he
forgave
most
.
And
he
said
unto
him
,
Thou
hast
rightly
judged
.
And
he
turned
to
the
Woman
,
and
said
unto
Simon
,
Seest
thou
this
Woman
?
I
entred
into
thy
house
,
thou
gavest
me
no
Water
for
my
Feet
:
But
she
hath
washed
my
Feet
with
tears
,
and
wiped
them
with
the
hairs
of
her
head
.
Thou
gavest
me
no
kiss
,
but
this
Woman
,
since
the
time
I
came
in
,
hath
not
ceased
to
kiss
my
Feet
.
My
Head
with
Oyl
thou
didst
not
anoint
,
but
this
Woman
hath
anointed
my
Feet
with
Oyntment
.
Wherefore
I
say
unto
thee
,
Her
Sins
which
are
many
,
are
forgiven
,
for
she
loved
much
;
but
to
whom
little
is
forgiven
,
the
same
loveth
little
.
And
he
said
unto
her
,
thy
Sins
are
forgiven
,
Luk
.
7.36
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
43
,
44
,
45
,
46
,
47
,
48
,
49
,
50.
Thus
you
have
the
Story
.
If
I
come
short
in
any
Circumstance
,
I
beg
Pardon
of
those
that
can
correct
me
.
't
is
three
or
four
and
twenty
Years
since
I
saw
the
Book
,
yet
I
have
as
far
as
my
memory
will
admit
,
given
you
the
relation
of
the
Matter
.
However
,
Luke
,
as
you
see
,
doth
here
present
you
with
the
Substance
of
the
whole
.
Alas
!
Christ
Jesus
has
but
little
thanks
for
the
saving
of
little
Sinners
.
To
whom
little
is
forgiven
,
the
same
loveth
little
.
He
gets
not
Water
for
his
Feet
,
by
his
saving
of
such
Sinners
.
There
are
abundance
of
dry-eyed
Christians
in
the
World
,
and
abundance
of
dry-eyed
Duties
too
:
Duties
that
never
was
wetted
with
the
tears
of
Contrition
and
Repentance
,
nor
ever
sweetned
with
the
great
Sinners
box
of
Oyntment
.
And
the
reason
is
,
such
sinners
have
not
great
sins
to
be
saved
from
;
or
if
they
have
,
they
look
upon
them
in
the
diminishingglass
of
the
Holy
Law
of
God
.
But
I
rather
believe
that
the
Professors
of
our
days
want
a
due
sense
of
what
they
are
;
for
verily
,
for
the
generality
of
them
,
both
before
and
since
Conversion
,
they
have
been
sinners
of
a
lusty
size
:
But
if
their
Eyes
be
holden
,
if
Convictions
are
not
shown
,
if
their
knowledge
of
their
sins
is
but
like
to
the
eye-sight
in
twilight
,
the
Heart
cannot
be
affected
with
that
grace
that
has
laid
hold
on
the
man
,
and
so
Christ
Jesus
sows
much
,
and
has
little
coming
in
.
Wherefore
His
way
is
oft
times
to
step
out
of
his
way
,
to
Jerico
,
to
Samaria
,
to
the
Countrey
of
the
Gaddarens
,
to
the
Coasts
of
Tyre
and
Sidon
,
and
also
to
Mount
Calvary
,
that
he
may
lay
hold
of
such
kind
of
Sinners
as
will
love
him
to
his
liking
,
Luke
19.1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10.
John
4.3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
&c.
Mark
5.1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
17
,
18
,
19
,
20.
Matt
.
15.21
,
22
,
23
,
24
,
25
,
26
,
27
,
28.
Luke
23.33
,
34
,
35
,
36
,
37
,
38
,
39
,
40
,
41
,
42
,
43.
But
thus
much
for
the
Sixth
Reason
,
why
Christ
Jesus
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
;
to
wit
,
because
such
sinners
when
converted
,
are
apt
to
love
him
most
.
The
Jerusalem-sinners
were
they
that
out-stript
,
when
they
were
Converted
,
in
some
things
,
all
the
Churches
of
the
Gentiles
.
They
were
of
one
heart
,
and
of
one
soul
,
neither
said
any
of
them
,
that
ought
of
the
things
that
they
possessed
was
their
own
;
neither
was
there
any
among
them
that
lacked
,
for
as
many
as
were
possessors
of
Lands
,
or
Houses
,
sold
them
,
and
brought
the
price
of
the
things
that
were
sold
,
and
laid
them
down
at
the
Apostles
feet
,
&c.
Acts
4.32
,
33
,
34
,
35.
Now
show
me
such
another
Patern
if
you
can
.
But
why
did
these
do
thus
?
Oh!
they
were
jerusalem-sinners
.
These
were
the
Men
that
but
a
little
before
,
had
killed
the
Prince
of
Life
,
and
those
to
whom
he
did
,
that
notwithstanding
,
send
the
first
offer
of
Grace
and
Mercy
.
And
the
sense
of
this
,
took
them
up
betwixt
the
Earth
and
the
Heavens
,
and
carried
them
on
in
such
ways
and
methods
,
as
could
never
be
trodden
by
any
since
.
They
talk
of
the
Church
of
Rome
,
and
set
her
in
her
Primitive
state
,
as
a
Patern
,
and
Mother
of
Churches
;
when
the
Truth
is
,
they
were
the
Jerusalem-sinners
,
when
Converts
,
that
out-did
all
the
Churches
that
ever
was
.
Seventhly
,
Christ
Jesus
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
because
Grace
,
when
it
is
received
by
such
,
finds
matter
to
kindle
upon
more
freely
than
it
finds
in
other
sinners
.
Great
Sinners
are
like
the
dry
Wood
,
or
like
great
Candles
,
which
burns
best
and
shines
with
biggest
light
.
I
lay
not
this
down
,
as
I
did
those
Reasons
before
,
to
shew
,
that
when
great
Sinners
are
Converted
,
they
will
be
encouragement
to
others
,
though
that
is
true
;
but
to
shew
that
Christ
has
a
delight
to
see
Grace
,
the
Grace
we
receive
,
to
shine
.
We
love
to
see
things
that
bear
a
good
gloss
,
yea
,
we
chuse
to
buy
such
kind
of
matter
to
work
upon
,
as
will
,
if
wrought
up
to
what
we
intend
,
cast
that
lustre
that
we
desire
.
Candles
that
burn
not
bright
,
we
like
not
;
Wood
that
is
green
will
rather
smother
and
sputter
and
smoak
,
and
crack
,
and
flounce
,
than
cast
a
brave
light
and
pleasant
heat
.
Wherefore
great
Folks
care
not
much
,
not
so
much
for
such
kind
of
things
,
as
for
them
that
will
better
answer
their
ends
.
Hence
Christ
desires
the
biggest
Sinner
,
in
him
there
is
Matter
to
work
by
,
to
wit
,
a
great
deal
of
sin
;
for
as
by
the
Tallow
of
the
Candle
,
the
Fire
takes
occasion
to
burn
the
brighter
;
so
by
the
sin
of
the
Soul
,
Grace
takes
occasion
to
shine
the
clearer
.
Little
Candles
shine
but
little
,
for
there
wanteth
matter
for
the
Fire
to
work
upon
;
but
in
the
great
Sinner
,
here
is
more
matter
for
Grace
to
work
by
.
Faith
shines
,
when
it
worketh
towards
Christ
,
through
the
sides
of
many
and
great
Transgressions
;
and
so
does
Love
,
for
that
much
is
forgiven
.
And
what
matter
can
be
found
in
the
Soul
for
Humility
to
work
by
so
well
,
as
by
a
sight
that
I
have
been
and
am
an
abominable
Sinner
?
And
the
same
is
to
be
said
of
Patience
,
Meekness
,
Gentleness
,
Self-denial
,
or
of
any
other
Grace
.
Grace
takes
occasion
by
the
vileness
of
the
man
,
to
shine
the
more
;
even
as
by
the
ruggedness
of
a
very
strong
Distemper
,
or
Disease
,
the
vertue
of
the
Medicine
is
best
made
manifest
.
Where
Sin
abounds
,
Grace
much
more
abounds
,
Rom.
5.20
.
A
black
string
makes
the
Neck
look
whiter
;
great
sins
makes
Grace
burn
clear
.
Some
say
when
Grace
and
a
good
Nature
meet
together
,
they
do
make
shining
Christians
;
but
I
say
,
when
Grace
and
a
great
Sinner
meets
,
and
when
Grace
shall
subdue
that
great
Sinner
to
it self
,
and
shall
operate
after
its
kind
in
the
Soul
of
that
great
Sinner
,
then
we
have
a
shining
Christian
;
Witness
all
those
of
whom
mention
was
made
before
.
Abraham
was
among
the
Idolaters
when
in
the
Land
of
Assyria
,
and
served
Idols
with
his
Kindred
on
the
other
side
of
the
Flood
,
Jos
.
24.2
.
Gen.
11.31
.
but
who
when
called
,
was
there
in
the
World
,
in
whom
Grace
shone
so
bright
as
in
him
?
The
Thessalonians
were
Idolaters
,
before
the
Word
of
God
came
to
them
;
but
when
they
had
received
it
,
they
became
examples
to
all
that
did
believe
,
in
Macedonia
and
Achaia
,
1
Thess.
1.6
,
7
,
8
,
9
,
10.
God
the
Father
,
and
Jesus
Christ
his
Son
,
are
for
having
things
seen
,
for
having
the
Word
of
Life
held
forth
.
They
light
not
a
Candle
that
it
might
be
put
under
a
Bushel
,
or
under
a
Bed
,
but
on
a
Candlestick
,
that
all
that
come
in
may
see
the
light
,
Matt
.
5.15
.
Mar.
4.21
.
Luk
.
8.16
.
chap.
11.33
.
And
,
I
say
,
as
I
said
before
,
in
whom
is
it
like
so
to
shine
,
as
in
the
Souls
of
great
sinners
?
When
the
Jewish
Pharisees
dallied
with
the
Gospel
,
Christ
threatned
to
take
it
from
them
,
and
to
give
it
to
the
barbarous
Heathens
,
and
Idolaters
.
Why
so
?
For
they
,
saith
he
,
will
bring
forth
the
Fruits
thereof
in
their
season
.
Therefore
I
say
unto
you
,
The
Kingdom
of
God
shall
be
taken
from
you
,
and
given
to
a
Nation
bringing
forth
the
fruits
thereof
,
Matt
.
21.41
,
43.
I
have
often
marvelled
at
our
Youth
,
and
said
in
my
heart
,
What
should
be
the
reason
that
they
should
be
so
generally
at
this
day
debauched
as
they
are
!
for
they
are
now
Profane
to
amazement
:
And
sometimes
I
have
thought
one
thing
,
and
sometimes
another
:
That
is
,
why
God
should
suffer
it
so
to
be
.
At
last
I
have
thought
of
this
:
How
if
the
God
whose
ways
are
past
finding
out
,
should
suffer
it
so
to
be
now
,
that
he
might
make
of
some
of
them
the
more
glorious
Saints
hereafter
.
I
know
Sin
is
of
the
Devil
,
but
it
cannot
work
in
the
world
without
permission
:
and
if
it
happens
to
be
as
I
have
thought
,
it
will
not
be
the
first
time
that
God
the
Lord
hath
caught
Satan
in
his
own
design
.
For
my
part
,
I
believe
that
the
time
is
at
hand
,
that
we
shall
see
better
Saints
in
the
World
,
than
has
been
seen
in
it
this
many
aday
.
And
this
Vileness
that
at
present
does
so
much
swallow
up
our
Youth
,
is
one
cause
of
my
thinking
so
:
For
out
of
them
,
for
from
among
them
,
when
God
sets
to
his
Hand
,
as
of
old
,
you
shall
see
what
penitent
ones
,
what
trembling
ones
,
and
what
admirers
of
Grace
,
will
be
found
to
profess
the
Gospel
,
to
the
glory
of
God
by
Christ
.
Alas
!
We
are
a
company
of
wornout
Christians
,
our
Moon
is
in
the
Wane
;
we
are
much
more
black
than
white
,
more
dark
than
light
;
we
shine
but
a
little
;
Grace
in
the
most
of
us
,
is
decayed
.
But
I
say
,
when
they
of
these
debauched
ones
that
are
to
be
saved
,
shall
be
brought
in
;
when
these
that
look
more
like
Devils
than
Men
shall
be
Converted
to
Christ
,
(
and
I
believe
several
of
them
will
)
then
will
Christ
be
exalted
,
Grace
a
lored
,
the
Word
priked
,
Sions
Paths
better
trodden
,
and
Men
in
the
pursuite
of
their
own
Salvation
,
to
the
amazement
of
them
that
are
left
behind
.
Just
before
Christ
came
in
the
Flesh
,
the
World
was
Degenerated
as
it
is
now
;
The
generality
of
the
Men
in
Jerusalem
were
become
either
high
and
famous
for
Hypocrisy
,
or
filthy
base
in
their
Lives
.
The
Devil
also
was
broke
loose
in
hideous
manner
,
and
had
taken
possession
of
many
:
Yea
,
I
believe
that
there
was
never
Generation
before
nor
since
,
that
could
produce
so
many
possessed
with
Devils
,
deformed
,
lame
,
blind
,
and
infected
with
monstrous
Diseases
,
as
that
Generation
could
.
But
what
was
the
reason
thereof
?
I
mean
the
reason
from
God
?
Why
one
(
and
we
may
sum
up
more
in
that
answer
that
Christ
gave
to
his
Disciples
concerning
him
that
was
born
Blind
)
was
,
that
the
Works
of
God
might
be
made
manifest
in
them
,
and
that
the
Son
of
God
might
be
glorified
thereby
,
Joh
.
9.2
,
3.
chap.
11
4.
Now
if
these
Devils
and
Diseases
,
as
they
possessed
Men
then
,
were
to
make
way
and
work
for
an
approaching
Christ
in
Person
,
and
for
the
declaring
of
his
Power
,
why
may
we
not
think
that
now
,
even
now
also
,
he
is
ready
to
come
by
his
Spirit
in
the
Gospel
,
to
heal
many
of
the
Debaucheries
of
our
Age
?
I
cannot
believe
that
Grace
will
take
them
all
,
for
there
are
but
few
that
are
saved
:
But
yet
it
will
take
some
,
even
some
of
the
worst
of
Men
,
and
make
Blessed
ones
of
them
.
But
O!
how
these
Ringleaders
in
Vice
,
will
then
shine
in
Vertue
!
They
will
be
the
very
Pillars
in
Churches
,
they
will
be
as
an
Ensign
in
the
Land
;
The
Lord
their
God
shall
save
them
in
that
day
,
as
the
Flock
of
his
People
,
for
they
shall
be
as
the
Stones
of
a
Crown
,
lift
up
as
an
Ensign
upon
the
Land
,
Zech
.
9.16
.
But
who
are
these
?
Even
Idolatrous
Ephraim
,
and
backsliding
Judah
,
Ver
.
13.
I
know
there
is
ground
to
fear
,
that
the
Iniquity
of
this
Generation
will
be
pursued
with
heavy
Judgments
:
But
that
will
not
hinder
what
we
have
supposed
:
God
took
him
a
glorious
Church
out
of
Bloody
Jerusalem
,
yea
,
out
of
the
chief
of
the
Sinners
there
,
and
left
the
rest
to
be
taken
and
spoiled
,
and
sold
Thirty
for
a
Penny
,
in
the
Nations
where
they
were
Captives
.
The
Gospel
working
gloriously
in
a
place
,
to
the
seizing
upon
many
of
the
ringleading
Sinners
thereof
,
promiseth
no
security
to
the
rest
,
but
rather
threatneth
them
with
the
heaviest
and
smartest
Judgments
;
as
in
the
Instance
now
given
,
we
have
a
full
demonstration
;
but
in
defending
,
the
Lord
will
defend
his
People
;
and
in
saving
,
he
will
save
his
Inheritance
.
Nor
does
this
speak
any
great
comfort
to
a
decayed
and
backsliding
sort
of
Christians
,
for
the
next
time
God
rides
Post
with
his
Gospel
,
he
will
leave
such
Christians
behind
him
.
But
I
say
,
Christ
is
resolved
to
set
up
his
Light
in
the
World
;
yea
,
he
is
delighted
to
see
his
Graces
shine
,
and
therefore
he
commands
that
his
Gospel
should
to
that
end
,
be
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
;
for
by
great
Sins
it
shineth
most
:
Therefore
he
saith
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
Eighthly
,
And
lastly
,
Christ
Jesus
will
have
Mercy
to
be
offerd
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
For
that
by
that
means
the
Impenitent
that
are
left
behind
,
will
be
at
the
Judgment
,
the
more
left
without
excuse
.
God's
Word
has
two
edges
,
it
can
cut
back-stroke
and
fore-stroke
.
If
it
doth
thee
no
good
,
it
will
do
thee
hutt
;
't
is
the
favour
of
Life
unto
Life
to
those
that
receive
it
,
but
of
Death
unto
Death
to
them
that
refuse
it
,
2
Cor
.
2.15
,
16.
But
this
is
not
all
,
the
tender
of
Grace
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
in
the
first
place
,
will
not
only
leave
the
rest
,
or
those
that
refuse
it
,
in
a
deplorable
condition
,
but
will
also
stop
their
mouths
,
and
cut
off
all
pretence
to
excuse
at
that
day
.
If
I
had
not
come
and
spoken
unto
them
,
saith
Christ
,
they
had
not
had
Sin
;
but
now
they
have
no
cloke
for
their
sin
,
for
their
sin
of
persevering
in
Impenitence
,
Joh
.
15.22
.
But
what
did
he
speak
to
them
?
Why
even
that
which
I
have
told
you
;
to
wit
,
That
he
has
in
special
,
a
delight
in
saving
the
biggest
Sinners
.
He
spake
this
in
the
way
of
his
Doctrine
,
he
spake
this
in
the
way
of
his
Practice
,
even
to
the
pouring
out
of
his
last
breath
before
them
,
Luk
.
23.34
.
Now
since
this
is
so
,
what
can
the
Condemned
at
the
Judgment
say
for
themselves
,
why
Sentence
of
Death
should
not
be
passed
upon
them
?
I
say
,
what
excuse
can
they
make
for
themselves
,
when
they
shall
be
asked
why
they
did
not
in
the
day
of
Salvation
come
to
Christ
to
be
saved
?
Will
they
have
ground
to
say
to
the
Lord
,
Thou
wast
only
for
saving
of
little
Sinners
,
and
therefore
because
they
were
great
ones
,
they
durst
not
come
unto
him
;
Or
that
thou
hadst
not
compassion
for
the
biggest
Sinners
,
therefore
I
died
in
despair
;
will
these
be
excuses
for
them
as
the
Case
now
standeth
with
them
?
Is
there
not
every
where
in
God's
Book
a
flat
contradiction
to
this
,
in
multitudes
of
Promises
,
of
Invitations
,
of
Examples
,
and
the
like
?
Alas
,
alas
!
there
will
then
be
there
millions
of
Souls
to
confute
this
Plea
;
ready
I
say
,
to
stand
up
and
say
,
O!
deceived
World
,
Heaven
swarms
with
such
,
as
was
,
when
they
were
in
the
World
,
to
the
full
as
bad
as
you
.
Now
this
will
kill
all
plea
or
excuse
,
why
they
should
not
perish
in
their
sins
;
yea
,
the
Text
says
,
they
shall
see
them
there
;
There
shall
be
weeping
,
when
you
shall
see
Abraham
,
and
Isaac
,
and
Jacob
,
and
all
the
Prophets
in
the
Kingdom
of
Heaven
,
and
you
your selves
thrust
out
.
And
they
shall
come
from
the
East
,
and
from
the
West
,
and
from
the
North
,
and
from
the
South
,
and
shall
sit
down
in
the
Kingdom
of
God
,
Luk
.
13.28
,
29.
Out
of
which
company
it
is
easie
to
pick
such
,
as
sometimes
were
as
bad
People
as
any
now
breathe
on
the
face
of
the
Earth
.
What
think
you
of
the
first
Man
,
by
whose
sins
there
are
millions
now
in
Hell
?
And
so
I
may
say
,
what
think
you
of
ten
thousand
more
besides
?
But
if
the
Word
will
not
●tifle
and
gagg
them
up
,
I
speak
now
for
amplification
sake
,
the
view
of
those
who
are
saved
shall
.
There
comes
an
Incestuous
Person
to
the
Barr
,
and
pleads
that
the
bigness
of
his
Sins
was
a
bar
to
his
receiving
the
Promise
;
But
will
not
his
mouth
be
stopt
as
to
that
,
when
Lot
and
the
Incestuous
Corinthian
shall
be
set
before
him
,
Gen.
19.33
,
34
,
35
,
36.
1
Cor
.
5.1
,
2.
There
comes
a
Thief
and
says
,
Lord
!
my
sin
of
Theft
,
I
thought
,
was
such
as
could
not
be
pardoned
by
thee
!
But
when
he
shall
see
the
Thief
that
was
saved
on
the
Cross
,
stand
by
,
as
clothed
with
beauteous
Glory
,
what
further
can
he
be
able
to
object
?
Yea
,
the
Lord
will
produce
ten
thousand
of
his
Saints
at
his
coming
,
who
shall
after
this
manner
execute
Judgment
upon
all
,
and
to
convince
all
that
are
ungodly
among
them
,
of
all
their
hard
specches
which
ungodly
sinners
have
spoken
against
him
,
Jude
15
,
16.
And
these
are
hard
speeches
against
him
,
To
say
that
he
was
not
able
or
willing
to
save
Men
,
because
of
the
greatness
of
their
sins
,
or
to
say
that
they
were
discouraged
by
his
Word
from
Repentance
,
because
of
the
heinousness
of
their
offences
.
These
things
,
I
say
,
shall
then
be
confuted
;
He
comes
with
ten
thousand
of
his
Saints
to
confute
them
,
and
to
stop
their
mouths
from
making
objections
against
their
own
eternal
damnation
.
Here
is
Adam
the
destroyer
of
the
World
;
here
is
Lot
that
lay
with
both
his
Daughters
;
here
is
Abraham
that
was
sometimes
an
Idolater
,
and
Jacob
that
was
a
Supplanter
,
and
Ruben
that
lay
with
his
Fathers
Concubine
,
and
Judah
that
lay
with
his
Daughter-in-Law
,
and
Levy
and
Simeon
that
wickedly
slew
the
Sechemites
;
and
Aaron
that
made
an
Idol
to
be
Worshipped
,
and
that
proclaimed
a
Religions
Feast
unto
it
.
Here
is
also
Rahab
the
Harlot
,
and
Bathsheba
that
bare
a
Bastard
to
David
.
Here
is
Solomon
that
great
Backslider
,
and
Manasseth
that
man
of
Blood
,
and
a
Witch
.
Time
would
fall
to
tell
you
of
the
Woman
of
Canaans
Daughter
,
of
Mary
Magdalen
,
of
Matthew
the
Publican
,
and
of
Gideon
and
Sampson
,
and
many
thousands
more
.
Alas
,
alas
!
I
say
,
what
will
these
Sinners
do
,
that
have
,
through
their
unbelief
,
eclipsed
the
glorious
largeness
of
the
mercy
of
God
,
and
gave
way
to
despair
of
Salvation
because
of
the
bigness
of
their
sins
.
For
all
these
,
though
now
glorious
Saints
in
Light
,
were
sometimes
Sinners
of
the
biggest
size
,
who
had
sins
that
were
of
a
notorious
hue
;
Yet
now
,
I
say
,
they
are
in
their
shining
and
heavenly
Robes
before
the
Throne
of
God
and
of
the
Lamb
,
Blessing
for
ever
and
ever
,
that
Son
of
God
for
their
Salvation
,
who
dyed
for
them
upon
the
Tree
;
admiring
that
ever
it
should
come
into
their
Hearts
once
to
think
of
coming
to
God
by
Christ
:
But
above
all
,
blessing
God
for
granting
of
them
light
to
see
those
incouragements
in
his
Testament
;
without
which
,
without
doubt
,
they
had
been
daunted
and
sunk
down
under
guilt
of
Sin
and
Despair
,
as
their
fellow-sinners
have
done
.
But
now
they
also
are
all
Witnesses
for
God
and
for
his
Grace
against
an
unbelieving
World
;
for
as
I
said
,
they
shall
come
to
convince
the
World
of
their
Speeches
,
their
hard
and
unbelieving
words
,
that
they
have
spoken
concerning
the
mercy
of
God
,
and
the
merits
of
the
Passion
of
his
blessed
Son
Jesus
Christ
.
But
will
it
not
,
think
you
,
strangely
put
to
silence
all
such
thoughts
,
and
words
,
and
reasonings
of
the
Ungodly
before
the
barr
of
God
?
doubtless
it
will
;
yea
,
and
will
send
them
away
from
his
presence
also
,
with
the
greatest
guilt
that
possibly
can
fasten
upon
the
Consciences
of
Men
.
For
what
will
sting
like
this
?
I
have
through
mine
own
foolish
,
narrow
,
unworthy
,
undervaluing
thoughts
of
the
love
and
ability
of
Christ
to
save
me
,
brought
my self
to
everlasting
ruine
.
't
is
true
,
I
was
a
horrible
sinner
,
not
one
in
a
hundred
did
live
so
vile
a
life
as
I
,
but
this
should
not
have
kept
me
from
closing
with
Jesus
Christ
:
I
see
now
that
there
are
abundance
in
Glory
that
once
were
as
bad
as
I
have
been
,
but
they
were
saved
by
Faith
,
and
I
am
damned
by
Unbelief
.
Wretch
that
I
am
!
why
did
not
I
give
glory
to
the
Redeeming
Blood
of
Jesus
?
Why
did
I
not
humbly
cast
my
Soul
at
his
blessed
foot-stool
for
Mercy
?
Why
did
I
judge
of
his
ability
to
save
me
by
the
voice
of
my
shallow
reason
,
and
the
voice
of
a
guilty
Conscience
?
Why
betook
not
I
my self
to
the
holy
Word
of
God
?
Why
did
I
not
read
and
pray
that
I
might
understand
,
since
now
I
perceive
that
God
said
then
,
He
giveth
liberally
to
them
that
pray
,
and
upbraided
not
,
Jam
.
1.5
.
't
is
rational
to
think
,
that
by
such
Cogitations
as
these
,
the
unbelieving
World
will
be
torn
in
pieces
before
the
Judgment
of
Christ
:
Especially
those
that
have
lived
where
they
did
or
might
have
heard
the
Gospel
of
the
Grace
of
God
.
Oh!
that
saying
,
It
shall
be
more
tolerable
for
Sodom
at
the
Judgment
,
than
for
them
,
will
be
better
understood
.
See
Luk
.
10.8
,
9
,
10
,
11
,
12.
This
Reason
therefore
standeth
fast
;
Namely
,
That
Christ
,
by
offering
mercy
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
now
,
will
stop
all
mouths
of
the
impenitent
at
the
day
of
Judgment
,
and
cut
off
all
excuse
that
shall
be
attempted
to
be
made
(
from
the
thoughts
of
the
greatness
of
their
sins
)
why
they
came
not
to
him
.
I
have
often
thought
of
the
day
of
Judgment
,
and
how
God
will
deal
with
sinners
at
that
day
:
And
I
believe
it
will
be
managed
with
that
sweetness
,
with
that
equitableness
,
with
that
excellent
Righteousness
,
as
to
every
sin
,
and
circumstance
,
and
agravation
thereof
that
men
that
are
damned
,
before
th●…
Judgment
is
over
,
shall
receive
such
conviction
of
the
righteous
Judgment
of
God
upon
them
,
and
of
their
deserts
of
Hell-fire
,
that
they
shall
in
themselves
,
conclude
that
there
is
all
the
reason
in
the
world
that
they
should
be
shut
out
of
Heaven
,
and
go
to
Hell-fire
;
These
shall
go
away
into
everlasting
fire
,
Matt
,
25.46
.
Only
this
will
tare
,
That
they
have
mist
of
Mercy
and
Glory
,
and
obtained
everlasting
damnation
through
their
unbelief
.
But
it
will
tare
but
themselves
,
but
their
own
Souls
;
they
will
gnash
upon
themselves
:
For
in
that
,
Mercy
was
offered
to
the
chief
of
them
in
the
first
place
,
and
yet
they
were
damned
for
rejecting
of
it
:
They
were
damned
for
forsaking
what
they
had
a
propriety
in
;
for
,
forsaking
their
Own
Mercy
.
And
thus
much
for
the
Reasons
.
I
will
conclude
with
a
word
of
Application
.
The
APPLICATION
.
FIrst
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
?
Then
this
shews
us
how
to
make
a
right
judgment
of
the
heart
of
Christ
to
Men
.
Indeed
we
have
advantage
to
guess
at
the
goodness
of
his
Heart
,
by
many
things
;
as
by
his
taking
our
nature
upon
him
,
his
dying
for
us
,
his
sending
his
Word
and
Ministers
to
us
;
and
all
that
we
might
be
saved
.
But
this
of
beginning
to
offer
mercy
to
Jerusalem
,
is
that
which
heightens
all
the
rest
;
for
this
doth
not
only
confirm
to
us
,
that
Love
was
the
cause
of
his
dying
for
us
,
but
it
shews
us
yet
more
the
depth
of
that
Love
:
He
might
have
dyed
for
us
,
and
yet
have
extended
the
benefit
of
his
death
to
a
few
,
as
one
might
call
them
,
of
the
best-conditioned
sinners
,
to
those
who
(
though
they
were
weak
,
and
so
could
not
but
sin
)
yet
made
not
a
trade
of
sinning
;
To
those
that
sinned
not
lavishingly
.
There
are
in
the
World
,
as
one
may
call
them
,
the
moderate
Sinners
;
the
sinners
that
mix
Righteousness
with
their
Polutions
;
the
sinners
that
,
though
they
be
sinners
,
do
what
on
their
part
lies
,
(
some
that
are
blind
would
think
so
)
that
they
might
be
saved
.
I
say
,
it
had
been
Love
,
great
Love
,
if
he
had
dyed
for
none
but
such
,
and
sent
his
love
to
such
:
But
that
he
should
send
out
conditions
of
Peace
to
the
biggest
of
Sinners
!
yea
,
that
they
should
be
offered
to
them
first
of
all
!
(
for
so
he
means
when
he
says
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
)
This
is
wonderful
!
this
snows
his
heart
to
purpose
,
as
also
the
heart
of
God
his
Father
who
sent
him
to
do
thus
.
There
is
nothing
more
incident
to
Men
that
are
awake
in
their
Souls
,
than
to
have
wrong
thoughts
of
God
;
Thoughts
that
are
narrow
,
and
that
pinch
and
pen
up
his
Mercy
to
scanty
and
beggarly
conclusions
,
and
ridged
legal
conditions
;
supposing
that
it
is
rude
and
an
intrenching
upon
his
Majesty
,
to
come
our selves
,
or
to
invite
others
,
until
we
have
scraped
and
washed
,
and
rubbed
off
as
much
of
our
dirt
from
us
as
we
think
is
convenient
,
to
make
us
somewhat
orderly
and
handsome
in
his
sight
.
Such
never
knew
what
these
Words
meant
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
Yea
,
such
in
their
hearts
have
compared
the
Father
and
his
Son
to
niggardly
rich
Men
,
whose
Money
comes
from
them
like
drops
of
blood
.
True
,
says
such
,
God
has
Mercy
,
but
he
is
loth
to
part
with
it
.
You
must
please
him
well
,
if
you
get
any
from
him
:
He
is
not
so
free
as
many
suppose
,
nor
is
he
so
willing
to
save
as
some
pretended
Gospellers
imagine
:
But
I
ask
such
,
If
the
Father
and
Son
be
not
unspeakably
free
to
shew
Mercy
,
why
was
this
Clause
put
into
our
Commission
to
preach
the
Gospel
?
Yea
,
why
did
he
say
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
?
For
when
men
,
through
the
weakness
of
their
wits
,
have
attempted
to
shew
other
reasons
why
they
should
have
the
first
proffer
of
Mercy
,
yet
I
can
prove
(
by
many
undeniable
Reasons
)
that
they
of
Jerusalem
(
to
whom
the
Apostles
made
the
First
offer
,
according
as
they
were
commanded
)
were
the
biggest
Sinners
that
ever
did
breathe
upon
the
face
of
God's
earth
(
set
the
unpardonable
sin
aside
)
upon
which
my
Doctrine
stands
like
a
Rock
,
That
Jesus
the
Son
of
God
would
have
Mercy
in
the
first
place
offered
to
the
biggest
Sinners
:
And
if
this
doth
not
shew
the
heart
of
the
Father
and
the
Son
to
be
infinitely
free
in
bestowing
forgiveness
of
Sins
,
I
confess
my self
mistaken
.
Neither
is
there
,
set
this
aside
,
another
Argument
like
it
,
to
shew
us
the
willingness
of
Christ
to
save
Sinners
:
For
,
as
was
said
before
,
all
the
rest
of
the
signs
of
Christ's
mercifulness
might
have
been
limitted
to
Sinners
that
are
so
and
so
qualified
;
but
when
he
says
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
,
the
Line
is
stretched
out
to
the
utmost
,
no
man
can
imagine
beyond
it
,
and
it
is
folly
here
to
pinch
and
pare
,
to
narrow
,
and
seek
to
bring
it
within
scanty
bounds
,
for
he
plainly
saith
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
The
biggest
Sinner
,
is
the
biggest
Sinner
;
the
biggest
is
the
Jerusalem-sinner
.
't
is
true
,
he
saith
that
Repentance
and
Remission
of
sins
must
go
together
;
but
yet
Remission
is
sent
to
the
chief
,
the
Jerusalem-sinner
;
nor
doth
Repentance
lessen
at
all
the
Jerusalem-sinners
crimes
;
it
diminisheth
none
of
his
sins
,
nor
causes
that
there
should
be
so
much
as
half
a
one
the
fewer
:
It
only
puts
a
stop
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
course
,
and
makes
him
willing
to
be
saved
freely
by
Grace
;
and
for
time
to
come
to
be
governed
by
that
blessed
Word
that
has
brought
the
Tidings
of
good
things
to
him
.
Besides
,
no
man
shews
himself
willing
to
be
saved
that
repenteth
not
of
his
deeds
,
for
he
that
goes
on
still
in
his
trespasses
,
declares
that
he
is
resolved
to
pursue
his
own
damnation
further
.
Learn
then
to
judge
of
the
largeness
of
God's
heart
,
and
of
the
heart
of
his
Son
Jesus
Christ
,
by
the
Word
:
Judge
not
thereof
by
feeling
nor
by
the
reports
of
thy
Conscience
;
Conscience
is
oft-times
here
befooled
and
made
to
go
quite
besides
the
Word
:
't
was
judging
without
the
Word
that
made
David
say
,
I
am
cast
off
from
God's
eyes
,
and
shall
perish
one
day
by
the
hand
of
Saul
,
Psal
.
31.22
.
1
Sam
.
27.1
.
The
Word
had
told
him
another
thing
;
namely
,
that
he
should
be
King
in
his
stead
.
Our
Text
says
also
,
that
Jesus
Christ
bids
Preachers
in
their
preaching
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sins
,
Begin
first
at
Jerusalem
;
Thereby
declaring
most
truely
,
the
infinite
largeness
of
the
merciful
heart
of
God
and
his
Son
,
to
the
sinful
Children
of
Men
.
Judge
thou
,
I
say
,
therefore
of
the
goodness
of
the
heart
of
God
and
his
Son
,
by
this
Text
,
and
by
others
of
the
same
import
;
so
shalt
thou
not
dishonour
the
grace
of
God
,
nor
needlesly
fright
thy self
,
nor
give
away
thy
Faith
,
nor
gratifie
the
Devil
,
nor
lose
the
benefit
of
his
Word
:
I
speak
now
to
weak
Believers
.
Secondly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
?
Then
by
this
also
,
you
must
learn
to
judge
of
the
sufficiency
of
the
merits
of
Christ
;
not
that
the
Merits
of
Christ
can
be
comprehended
,
for
that
they
are
beyond
the
Conceptions
of
the
whole
World
,
being
called
The
unsearchable
riches
of
Christ
;
but
yet
they
may
be
apprehended
to
a
considerable
degree
.
Now
the
way
to
apprehend
them
most
,
is
to
consider
what
offers
,
after
his
Resurrection
,
he
makes
of
his
Grace
to
Sinners
;
for
to
be
sure
he
will
not
offer
beyond
the
vertue
of
his
Merits
;
because
as
Grace
is
the
cause
of
his
Merits
,
so
his
Merits
are
the
basis
and
bounds
,
upon
and
by
which
his
Grace
stands
good
,
and
is
let
out
to
Sinners
.
Doth
he
then
command
that
his
Mercy
should
be
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
?
It
declares
that
there
is
a
sufficiency
in
his
Blood
to
save
the
biggest
Sinners
.
The
Blood
of
Jesus
Christ
cleanseth
from
all
Sin
.
And
again
,
Be
it
known
unto
you
Men
and
Brethren
,
That
through
this
Man
(
this
Man's
Merits
)
is
preached
to
you
the
forgiveness
of
Sins
,
and
by
him
All
that
believe
are
justified
from
All
things
from
which
they
could
not
be
justified
by
the
Law
of
Moses
,
Acts
13.38
.
Observe
then
thy
Rule
to
make
Judgement
of
the
Sufficiency
of
the
blessed
Merits
of
thy
Saviour
;
if
he
had
not
been
able
to
have
reconciled
the
biggest
Sinners
to
his
Father
by
his
Blood
,
he
would
not
have
sent
to
them
;
have
sent
to
them
in
the
first
place
the
Doctrine
of
Remission
of
Sins
;
for
Remission
of
Sins
is
through
Faith
in
his
Blood
:
We
are
justified
freely
by
the
Grace
of
God
,
through
the
Redemption
that
is
in
the
Blood
of
Christ
.
Upon
the
square
,
as
I
may
call
it
,
of
the
worthiness
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
,
Grace
Acts
,
and
offers
Forgiveness
of
Sin
to
Men
,
Ephes
.
1.7
.
chap.
2.13
,
14.
Colos
.
1.20
,
21
,
22.
Hence
therefore
we
must
gather
,
That
the
Blood
of
Christ
is
of
infinite
value
,
for
that
he
offereth
Mercy
to
the
biggest
of
Sinners
:
Nay
further
,
since
he
offereth
Mercy
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
;
Considering
also
that
this
first
act
of
his
,
is
that
which
the
World
will
take
notice
of
,
and
expect
it
should
be
continued
unto
the
end
;
Also
it
is
a
disparagement
to
a
Man
that
seeks
his
own
Glory
in
what
he
undertakes
,
to
do
that
for
a
spirt
,
which
he
cannot
continue
and
hold
out
in
:
This
is
our
Lord's
own
Argument
,
He
began
to
build
,
saith
he
,
but
was
not
able
to
finish
,
Luk
.
14.28
,
29
,
30.
Shouldest
thou
hear
a
Man
says
I
am
resolved
to
be
kind
to
the
Poor
:
and
should
begin
giving
with
handfuls
of
Guinea's
,
you
would
conclude
that
either
he
is
wonderful
rich
,
or
must
straighten
his
hand
,
or
will
soon
be
at
the
bottom
of
his
Riches
.
Why
this
is
the
Case
,
Christ
at
his
Resurrection
gave
it
out
that
he
would
be
good
to
the
World
;
and
first
sends
to
the
biggest
Sinners
,
with
an
intent
to
have
Mercy
on
them
.
Now
the
biggest
Sinners
cannot
be
saved
but
by
abundance
of
Grace
,
't
is
not
a
little
that
will
save
great
sinners
,
Rom.
5.17
.
And
I
say
again
,
since
the
Lord
Jesus
mounts
thus
high
at
the
first
,
and
sends
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
,
that
they
may
come
first
to
partake
of
his
Mercy
;
it
follows
that
either
he
has
unsearchable
riches
of
Grace
and
Worth
in
himself
,
or
else
he
must
straighten
his
hand
,
or
his
Grace
and
Merits
will
be
spent
before
the
World
's
at
an
end
.
But
let
it
be
believed
,
as
surely
as
spoken
,
he
is
still
as
full
as
ever
!
He
is
not
a
jot
the
poorer
for
all
the
Forgivenesses
that
he
has
given
away
to
great
Sinners
;
Also
he
is
still
as
free
as
at
first
,
for
he
never
yet
called
back
this
Word
,
Begin
at
the
Jerusalem-sinners
.
And
as
I
said
,
since
his
Grace
is
extended
according
to
the
worth
of
his
Merits
;
I
conclude
,
that
there
is
the
same
vertue
in
his
Merits
to
save
now
,
as
there
was
at
the
very
beginning
.
O
the
Riches
of
the
Grace
of
Christ
!
Oh
the
riches
of
the
Blood
of
Christ
!
Thirdly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
Then
here
is
encouragement
for
you
that
think
,
for
wicked
hearts
and
lives
,
you
have
not
your
fellows
in
the
World
;
yet
to
come
to
him
.
There
is
a
People
that
therefore
fear
lest
they
should
be
rejected
of
Jesus
Christ
,
because
of
the
greatness
of
their
sins
;
when
as
you
see
here
,
such
are
sent
to
,
sent
to
by
Jesus
Christ
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
;
Begin
at
Jerusalem
:
Never
did
one
thing
answer
another
more
fitly
in
this
world
,
than
this
Text
fitteth
such
kind
of
sinners
:
As
Face
answereth
Face
in
a
Glass
,
so
this
Text
answereth
the
necessities
of
such
sinners
.
What
can
a
Man
say
more
,
but
that
he
stands
in
the
rank
of
the
biggest
sinners
;
let
him
s●retch
himself
whither
he
can
,
and
think
of
himself
to
the
utmost
,
he
can
but
conclude
himself
to
be
one
of
the
biggest
sinners
:
And
what
then
?
Why
the
Text
meets
him
in
the
very
face
,
and
saith
,
Christ
offereth
Mercy
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
to
the
very
Jerusalem
sinners
.
What
more
can
be
objected
?
Nay
,
he
doth
not
only
offer
to
such
his
Mercy
,
but
to
them
't
is
commanded
to
be
offered
in
the
first
place
;
Begin
at
Jerusalem
.
Preach
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sins
among
all
Nations
,
beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
Is
not
here
incouragement
for
those
that
think
,
for
wicked
Hearts
and
Lives
,
they
have
not
their
fellows
in
the
world
?
Objection
,
But
I
have
a
Heart
as
hard
as
a
Rock
.
Answ
.
Well
,
but
this
doth
but
prove
thee
a
biggest
sinner
.
Object
.
But
my
Heart
continually
frets
against
the
Lord
?
Ans.
Well
,
this
doth
but
prove
thee
a
biggest
sinner
.
Object
.
But
I
have
been
desperate
in
sinful
courses
?
Ans.
Well
,
stand
thou
with
the
number
of
the
biggest
sinners
.
Object
.
But
my
grey
Head
i●
found
in
the
way
of
wickedness
?
Ans.
Well
,
thou
art
in
the
rank
of
the
biggest
sinners
.
Object
.
But
I
have
not
only
a
base
Heart
,
but
I
have
lived
a
debauched
life
?
Ans.
Stand
thou
also
among
those
that
are
called
the
biggest
sinners
.
And
what
then
?
Why
the
Text
swoops
you
all
;
you
cannot
object
your selves
beyond
the
Text
:
It
has
a
particular
message
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
I
say
,
it
swoops
you
all
.
Object
.
But
I
am
a
Reprobate
?
Ans.
Now
thou
talkest
like
a
fool
,
and
medlest
with
what
thou
understandest
not
:
No
sin
,
but
the
sin
of
final
Impenitence
,
can
prove
a
Man
a
Reprobate
.
And
I
am
sure
thou
hast
not
arrived
as
yet
unto
that
:
Therefore
thou
understandest
not
what
thou
sayest
,
and
makest
groundless
conclusions
against
thy self
.
Say
thou
art
a
Sinner
,
and
I
will
hold
with
thee
.
Say
thou
art
a
great
sinner
,
and
I
will
say
so
too
.
Yea
,
say
thou
art
one
of
the
biggest
sinners
and
spare
not
,
for
the
Text
yet
is
beyond
thee
,
is
yet
betwixt
Hell
and
thee
;
Begin
at
Jerusalem
,
has
yet
a
smile
upon
thee
:
And
thou
talkest
as
if
thou
wast
a
Reprobate
,
and
that
the
greatness
of
thy
sins
do
prove
the●
so
to
be
;
when
yet
they
of
Jerusalem
were
not
such
,
whose
sins
I
dare
say
,
were
such
,
both
for
bigness
and
heinousness
,
as
thou
art
not
capable
of
committing
beyond
them
;
unless
now
,
after
thou
hast
received
Conviction
that
the
Lord
Jesus
is
the
only
Saviour
of
the
World
,
thou
shouldest
wickedly
and
despitefully
turn
thy self
from
him
,
and
conclude
he
is
not
to
be
trusted
to
for
Life
,
and
so
crucifie
him
for
a
Cheat
afresh
.
This
I
must
confess
,
will
bring
a
Man
under
the
Black-rod
,
and
set
him
in
danger
of
eternal
Damnation
,
Heb
.
6.6
.
chap.
10.29
.
This
is
trampling
under
foot
the
Son
of
God
,
and
counting
his
Blood
an
unholy
thing
.
This
did
they
of
Jerusalem
,
but
they
did
it
ignorantly
in
Unbelief
,
and
so
were
yet
capable
of
Mercy
:
But
to
do
this
against
professed
Light
,
and
to
stand
to
it
,
puts
a
man
beyond
the
Text
indeed
,
Acts
3.14
,
15
,
16
,
17.
1
Tim
.
1.13
.
But
I
say
,
what
is
this
to
him
,
that
would
fain
be
saved
by
Christ
?
His
sins
did
,
as
to
greatness
,
never
yet
reach
to
the
nature
of
the
sins
that
the
sinners
intended
by
the
Text
,
had
made
themselves
guilty
of
.
He
that
would
be
saved
by
Christ
,
has
an
honourable
esteem
of
him
,
but
they
of
Jerusalem
preferred
a
Murderer
before
him
;
but
as
for
him
,
they
cried
,
away
away
with
him
,
't
is
not
fit
that
he
should
live
.
Perhaps
thou
wilt
object
,
That
thy self
hast
a
thousand
times
preferred
a
stinking
Lust
before
him
.
I
answer
.
Be
it
so
,
it
is
but
what
is
common
to
Men
to
do
;
nor
doth
the
Lord
Jesus
make
such
a
foolish
Life
a
Barr
to
thee
,
to
forbid
thy
coming
to
him
,
or
a
Bound
to
his
Grace
,
that
it
might
be
kept
from
thee
;
but
admits
of
thy
Repentance
,
and
offereth
himself
unto
thee
freely
,
as
thou
standest
among
the
Jerusalem-sinners
.
Take
therefore
incouragement
,
Man
;
Mercy
is
,
by
the
Text
,
held
forth
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
Yea
,
put
thy self
into
the
number
of
the
worst
by
reckoning
,
that
thou
mayest
be
one
of
the
first
,
and
mayst
not
be
put
off
till
the
biggest
sinners
are
served
:
For
the
biggest
sinners
are
first
invited
;
consequently
,
if
they
come
,
they
are
like
to
be
the
first
that
shall
be
served
.
't
was
so
with
Jerusalem
;
Jerusalem-sinners
were
they
that
were
first
invited
,
and
those
of
them
that
came
first
,
(
and
there
came
three
thousand
of
them
the
first
day
they
were
invited
,
(
how
many
came
afterwards
,
none
can
.
tell
)
they
were
first
served
.
Put
in
thy
Name
,
Man
,
among
the
biggest
,
lest
thou
art
made
to
wait
till
they
are
served
.
You
have
some
men
that
think
themselves
very
cunning
,
because
they
put
up
their
Names
in
their
Prayers
among
them
that
feign
it
,
saying
,
God
,
I
thank
thee
,
I
am
not
so
bad
as
the
worst
;
but
believe
it
,
if
they
be
saved
at
all
,
they
shall
be
saved
in
the
last
place
.
The
first
in
their
own
eyes
shall
be
served
last
,
and
the
last
,
or
worst
,
shall
be
first
.
The
Text
insinuates
it
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
;
and
Reason
backs
it
,
for
they
have
most
need
.
Behold
ye
therefore
,
how
God's
ways
are
above
ours
;
we
are
for
serving
the
worst
last
,
God
is
for
serving
the
worst
first
.
The
Man
at
the
Pool
,
that
to
my
thinking
,
was
longest
in
his
Disease
,
and
most
helpless
as
to
his
Cure
,
was
first
healed
,
yea
,
he
only
was
healed
;
for
we
read
that
Christ
healed
him
,
but
we
read
not
then
that
he
healed
one
more
there
,
Joh
5.1
,
2
,
3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
,
8
,
9.
Wherefore
if
thou
wouldst
:
soonest
be
served
,
put
in
thy
Name
among
the
very
worst
of
sinners
.
Say
,
when
thou
art
upon
thy
knees
,
Lord
!
here
is
a
Jerusalem
sinner
!
a
sinner
of
the
biggest
size
!
one
whose
burden
is
of
the
greatest
bulk
and
heaviest
weight
!
one
that
cannot
stand
long
without
sinking
into
Hell
,
without
thy
supporting
hand
!
Be
not
thou
far
from
me
,
O
Lord
:
O
my
strength
,
haste
thou
to
help
me
.
I
say
,
put
in
thy
Name
with
Magdalen
,
with
Manassch
,
that
thou
mayest
fare
as
the
Magdalen
and
the
Manassehsinners
do
.
The
Man
in
the
Gospel
made
the
desperate
condition
of
his
Child
,
an
argument
with
Christ
to
haste
his
Cure
:
Sir
,
Come
down
,
saith
he
,
ere
my
Child
die
,
Joh
.
4.49
.
And
Christ
regarded
his
haste
,
saying
,
Go
thy
way
,
thy
Son
liveth
,
Ver
.
50.
Haste
requires
haste
.
David
was
for
speed
;
Deliver
me
speedily
;
hear
me
speedily
,
answer
me
speedily
,
Psal
.
31.2
.
Psal
.
69.17
.
Psal
.
102.2
.
But
why
speedily
?
I
am
in
the
Net
,
I
am
in
trouble
,
my
days
consume
like
smoke
,
Psal
.
31.4
.
Psal
.
69.17
.
Psal
.
102.3
.
Deep
calleth
unto
deep
,
necessity
calls
for
help
;
great
necessity
for
present
help
.
Wherefore
I
say
,
be
ruled
by
me
in
this
matter
;
feign
not
thy self
another
Man
,
if
thou
hast
been
a
filthy
sinner
,
but
go
in
thy
colours
to
Jesus
Christ
,
and
put
thy self
among
the
most
Vile
,
and
let
him
alone
to
put
thee
among
the
Children
,
Jer
.
3.19
.
Confess
all
that
thou
knowest
of
thy self
;
I
know
thou
wilt
find
it
hard
work
to
do
thus
;
especially
if
thy
mind
be
legal
;
but
do
it
,
lest
thou
stay
,
and
be
deferred
with
the
little
sinners
,
until
the
great
ones
have
had
their
alms
.
What
do
you
think
David
intended
when
he
said
,
his
Wounds
stunck
and
were
corrupted
,
but
to
hasten
God
to
have
mercy
upon
him
,
and
not
to
defer
his
Cure
.
Lord
,
says
he
,
I
am
troubled
,
I
am
bowed
down
greatly
,
I
go
mourning
all
the
day
long
.
I
am
feeble
,
and
sore
broken
by
reason
of
the
disquietment
of
my
heart
,
Psal
.
38.3
,
4
,
5
,
6
,
7.
David
knew
what
he
did
by
all
this
,
he
knew
that
his
making
the
worst
of
his
Case
,
was
the
way
to
speedy
help
,
and
that
a
feigning
and
dissembling
the
matter
with
God
,
was
the
next
way
to
a
demurr
,
as
to
his
Forgiveness
.
I
have
one
thing
more
to
offer
for
thy
encouragement
who
deemest
thy self
one
of
the
biggest
sinners
;
And
that
is
,
Thou
art
as
it
were
,
called
by
thy
Name
,
in
the
first
place
,
to
come
in
for
Mercy
.
Thou
Man
of
Jerusalem
,
hearken
to
thy
Call
;
Men
do
so
in
Courts
of
Judicature
,
and
presently
cry
out
,
Here
,
Sir
;
and
then
they
shoulder
and
croud
,
and
say
,
Pray
give
way
,
I
am
called
into
the
Court
.
Why
,
this
is
thy
Case
,
thou
great
,
thou
Jerusalem
sinner
;
be
of
good
chear
,
he
calleth
thee
,
Mark
10.46
,
47
,
48
,
49.
Why
sittest
thou
still
?
arise
;
why
standest
thou
still
?
Come
,
Man
.
Thy
Call
should
give
thee
authority
to
come
.
Begin
at
Jerusalem
,
is
thy
call
and
authority
to
come
;
Wherefore
up
,
and
shoulder
it
,
Man
:
Say
,
Stand
away
Devil
,
Christ
calls
me
,
stand
away
Unbelief
,
Christ
calls
me
:
Stand
away
all
ye
my
discouraging
Apprehensions
,
for
my
Saviour
calls
me
to
him
to
receive
of
his
Mercy
.
Men
will
do
thus
,
as
I
said
,
in
Courts
below
;
and
why
shouldst
not
thou
approach
thus
to
the
Court
above
.
The
Jerusalem-sinner
is
first
in
Thought
,
first
in
Commission
,
first
in
the
Record
of
Names
,
and
therefore
should
give
attendance
with
expectation
,
that
he
is
first
to
receive
Mercy
of
God
.
Is
not
this
an
incouragement
to
the
biggest
sinners
to
make
their
Application
to
Christ
for
Mercy
?
Come
unto
me
all
ye
that
labour
and
are
heavy
laden
,
doth
also
confirm
this
thing
,
that
is
,
that
the
biggest
sinner
,
and
he
that
has
the
biggest
burden
,
is
he
who
is
first
invited
.
Christ
pointeth
over
the
Heads
of
thousands
,
as
he
sits
on
the
Throne
of
Grace
,
directly
to
such
a
Man
;
and
says
,
Bring
in
hither
the
maimed
,
the
halt
,
and
the
blind
;
Let
the
Jerusalem-sinner
that
stands
there
behind
,
come
to
me
.
Wherefore
since
Christ
says
come
,
to
thee
,
let
the
Angels
make
a
lane
,
and
let
all
Men
give
place
,
that
the
Jerusalem-sinner
may
come
to
Jesus
Christ
for
Mercy
.
Fourthly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
?
Then
come
thou
Profane
Wretch
,
and
let
me
a
little
enter
an
argument
with
thee
;
Why
wilt
thou
not
come
to
Jesus
Christ
,
since
thou
art
a
Jerusalem-sinner
?
How
canst
thou
find
in
thy
heart
to
set
thy self
against
Grace
,
against
such
Grace
as
offereth
Mercy
to
thee
?
What
Spirit
possesseth
thee
,
and
holds
thee
back
from
a
sincere
closure
with
thy
Saviour
?
Behold
God
groaningly
complains
of
thee
,
saying
,
But
Israel
would
none
of
me
.
When
I
called
,
none
did
answer
.
Psal
.
81.11
.
Isa
.
66.4
.
Shall
God
enter
this
Complaint
against
thee
?
Why
dost
thou
put
him
off
?
why
dost
thou
stop
thine
ear
?
Canst
thou
defend
thy self
?
When
thou
art
called
to
an
account
for
thy
neglects
of
so
great
Salvation
,
what
canst
thou
answer
?
Or
doest
thou
think
thou
shalt
escape
the
Judgment
?
Heb
.
2.3
.
No
more
such
Christs
!
There
will
be
no
more
such
Christs
,
sinner
!
Oh!
put
not
the
day
,
the
day
of
Grace
,
away
from
thee
!
If
it
be
once
gone
,
't
will
never
come
again
,
Sinner
.
But
what
is
it
that
has
got
thy
Heart
,
and
that
keeps
it
from
thy
Saviour
?
Who
in
the
Heavens
can
be
compared
unto
the
Lord
?
Who
among
the
Sons
of
the
Mighty
can
be
likened
unto
the
Lord
?
Psal
.
89.6
.
Hast
thou
,
thinkest
thou
,
found
any
thing
so
good
as
Jesus
Christ
?
Is
there
any
among
thy
Sins
,
thy
Companions
,
and
foolish
Delights
,
that
like
Christ
,
can
help
thee
in
the
day
of
thy
distress
?
Behold
,
the
greatness
of
thy
sins
cannot
hinder
;
let
not
the
stubbornness
of
thy
Heart
hinder
thee
,
Sinner
.
Objection
,
But
I
am
ashamed
.
Answer
,
Oh!
don't
be
ashamed
to
be
saved
,
Sinner
.
Object
.
But
my
old
Companions
will
mock
me
.
Ans.
Oh!
don't
be
mocked
out
of
Eternal
Life
,
Sinner
.
Thy
stubbornness
affects
,
afflicts
the
Heart
of
thy
Saviour
.
Carest
thou
not
for
this
?
Of
old
,
He
beheld
the
City
,
and
wept
over
it
.
Canst
thou
hear
this
,
and
not
be
concerned
?
Luk
.
19.41
,
42.
Shall
Christ
weep
to
see
thy
Soul
going
on
to
destruction
,
and
wilt
thou
sport
thy self
in
That
way
?
Yea
,
shall
Christ
,
that
can
be
eternally
Happy
without
thee
,
be
more
afflicted
at
the
thoughts
of
the
loss
of
thy
Soul
,
than
thy self
,
who
art
certainly
eternally
miserable
if
thou
neglectest
to
come
to
him
?
Those
things
that
keep
thee
and
thy
Saviour
,
on
thy
part
,
asunder
,
are
but
Bubbles
;
the
least
prick
of
an
affliction
,
will
let
out
,
as
to
thee
,
what
now
thou
thinkest
is
worth
the
venture
of
Heaven
to
enjoy
.
Hast
thou
not
Reason
?
Canst
thou
not
so
much
as
once
soberly
think
of
thy
dying
hour
?
or
of
,
whether
thy
sinful
life
will
drive
thee
then
?
Hast
thou
no
Conscience
?
or
having
one
,
is
it
rocked
so
fast
asleep
by
Sin
,
or
made
so
weary
with
an
unsuccessful
calling
upon
thee
,
that
it
is
laid
down
,
and
cares
for
thee
no
more
?
Poor
Man
,
thy
state
is
to
be
lamented
.
Hast
no
Judgment
?
Art
not
able
to
conclude
,
that
to
be
saved
,
is
better
than
to
burn
in
Hell
;
and
that
Eternal
Life
,
with
God's
favour
,
is
better
than
a
Temporal
Life
in
God's
displeasure
?
Hast
no
affection
but
what
is
bruitish
?
what
,
none
at
all
?
No
affection
for
the
God
that
made
thee
?
What
,
none
for
his
loving
Son
that
has
shewed
his
love
,
and
dyed
for
thee
?
Is
not
Heaven
worth
thy
affection
?
O
poor
Man
!
which
is
strongest
,
think'st
thou
,
God
or
thee
?
If
thou
art
not
able
to
overcome
him
,
thou
art
a
fool
for
standing
out
against
him
;
Matt
.
5.25
,
26.
It
is
a
fearful
thing
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
Living
God
.
He
will
gripe
hard
,
his
Fist
is
stronger
than
a
Lions
paw
;
take
heed
of
him
,
he
will
be
angry
if
you
despise
his
Son
;
and
will
you
stand
guilty
in
your
Trespasses
,
when
he
offereth
you
his
Grace
and
Favour
?
Exod
.
34.6
,
7.
Heb
.
10.29
,
30
,
31.
Now
we
come
to
the
Text
,
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
This
Text
,
though
it
be
now
one
of
the
brightest
Stars
that
shineth
in
the
Bible
,
because
there
is
in
it
,
as
full
,
if
not
the
fullest
offer
of
Grace
that
can
be
imagined
,
to
the
Sons
of
Men
;
yet
to
them
that
shall
perish
from
under
this
Word
,
even
this
Text
will
be
to
such
,
one
of
the
hottest
Coals
in
Hell
.
This
Text
therefore
will
save
thee
,
or
sink
thee
;
there
is
no
shifting
of
it
:
If
it
saves
thee
,
it
will
set
thee
high
;
if
it
sinks
thee
,
it
will
set
thee
low
.
But
,
I
say
,
Why
so
unconcerned
?
Hast
no
Soul
?
Or
dost
think
thou
mayest
lose
thy
Soul
,
and
save
thy
self
?
Is
it
not
pity
,
had
it
otherwise
been
the
Will
of
God
,
that
ever
thou
wast
made
a
Man
,
for
that
thou
settest
so
little
by
thy
Soul
?
Sinner
,
Take
the
Invitation
;
Thou
art
called
upon
to
come
to
Christ
:
Nor
art
thou
called
upon
but
by
order
from
the
Son
of
God
,
though
thou
shouldest
happen
to
be
one
of
the
biggest
sinners
:
For
he
has
bid
us
offer
Mercy
,
as
to
all
the
World
in
general
,
so
in
the
first
place
,
To
the
Sinners
of
Jerusalem
;
or
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
Fifthly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
?
Then
this
shews
how
unreasonable
a
thing
it
is
,
for
m●●
to
despair
of
Mercy
.
For
those
that
presume
,
I
shall
say
something
to
them
afterward
.
I
now
speak
to
them
that
Despair
.
There
are
four
sorts
of
Despair
.
There
is
the
despair
of
Devils
;
There
is
the
despair
of
Souls
in
Hell
;
There
is
the
despair
that
is
grounded
upon
Mens
Defficiency
;
And
there
is
the
despair
that
they
are
perplexed
with
that
are
willing
to
be
saved
,
but
are
too
strongly
born
down
with
the
burden
of
their
sins
.
The
despair
of
Devils
,
the
Damneds
despair
,
and
that
despair
that
a
Man
has
of
attaining
of
Life
,
because
of
his
own
Deficience
,
are
all
reasonable
.
Why
should
not
Devils
and
Damned
Souls
despair
?
Yea
,
why
should
not
Man
despair
of
getting
to
Heaven
by
his
own
abilities
?
I
therefore
am
concerned
only
with
the
fourth
sort
of
Despair
,
to
wit
,
with
the
despair
of
those
that
would
be
saved
,
but
are
too
strongly
born
down
with
the
burden
of
their
sins
.
I
say
therefore
to
thee
that
art
thus
,
And
why
despair
?
Thy
despair
,
if
it
was
reasonable
,
should
flow
from
thee
,
because
found
in
the
Land
that
is
beyond
the
Grave
;
or
because
thou
certainly
knowest
that
Christ
will
not
,
or
cannot
save
thee
.
But
for
the
first
,
thou
art
yet
in
the
Land
of
the
Living
;
and
for
the
second
,
thou
hast
ground
to
believe
the
quite
contrary
:
Christ
is
able
to
save
to
the
uttermost
,
them
that
come
to
God
by
him
;
and
if
he
were
not
willing
,
he
would
not
have
commanded
that
Mercy
in
the
first
place
should
be
offered
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
Besides
,
he
hath
said
,
And
let
him
that
is
athirst
come
,
and
whosoever
will
,
let
him
take
the
Water
of
Life
Freely
;
that
is
,
with
all
my
heart
.
What
ground
now
is
here
for
Despair
?
If
thou
sayest
,
The
number
and
burden
of
my
sins
.
I
answer
,
Nay
:
That
is
rather
a
ground
for
Faith
;
because
such
an
one
above
all
others
,
is
invited
by
Christ
to
come
unto
him
,
yea
,
promised
Rest
and
Forgiveness
if
they
come
,
Matt
.
11.28
What
ground
then
to
despair
?
Verily
none
at
all
.
Thy
despair
then
is
a
thing
unreasonable
,
and
without
footing
in
the
Word
.
But
I
have
no
experience
of
God's
love
,
God
has
given
me
no
comfort
,
or
ground
of
hope
,
though
I
have
waited
upon
him
for
it
many
a
day
.
Thou
hast
experience
of
God's
love
,
for
that
he
has
opened
thine
eyes
to
see
thy
sins
;
and
for
that
he
has
given
thee
desires
to
be
saved
by
Jesus
Christ
.
For
by
thy
sense
of
Sin
thou
art
made
to
see
thy
poverty
of
Spirit
,
and
that
has
laid
thee
under
a
sure
ground
to
hope
that
Heaven
shall
be
thine
hereafter
.
Also
thy
desires
to
be
saved
by
Christ
,
has
put
thee
under
another
Promise
,
so
there
is
two
to
hold
thee
up
in
hope
,
though
thy
present
burden
●e
never
so
heavy
,
Matt
.
5.3
,
6.
As
for
what
thou
sayest
,
as
to
God's
silence
to
thee
,
perhaps
he
has
spoken
to
thee
once
or
twice
already
,
but
thou
hast
not
perceived
it
,
Job
33.14
,
15.
However
,
thou
hast
Christ
Crucified
,
set
forth
before
thine
eyes
in
the
Bible
,
and
an
invitation
to
come
unto
him
,
though
thou
be
a
Jerusalem-sinner
,
tho
thou
be
a
biggest
Sinner
;
and
so
no
ground
to
despair
.
What
if
God
will
be
silent
to
thee
,
is
that
ground
of
despair
?
Not
at
all
,
so
long
as
there
is
a
Promise
in
the
Bible
that
God
will
in
no
wise
cast
away
the
coming
sinner
,
and
so
long
as
he
invites
the
Jerusalem-sinner
to
come
unto
him
,
Joh
.
6.37
.
Build
not
therefore
Despair
upon
these
things
,
they
are
no
sufficient
foundation
for
it
,
such
plenty
of
Promises
being
in
the
Bible
;
and
such
a
discovery
of
his
Mercy
to
great
Sinners
of
old
,
especially
since
we
have
withall
a
Clause
in
the
Commission
given
to
Ministers
to
Preach
,
that
they
should
begin
with
the
Jerusalem-sinners
in
their
offering
of
Mercy
to
the
World
.
Besides
,
God
says
,
They
that
wait
upon
the
Lord
,
shall
renew
their
strength
,
they
shall
mount
up
with
wings
like
Eagles
,
but
perhaps
it
may
be
long
first
,
I
waited
long
,
saith
David
,
and
did
seek
the
Lord
,
and
at
length
his
cry
was
heard
:
Wherefore
he
bids
his
Soul
wait
on
God
,
and
says
,
for
it
is
good
so
to
do
before
thy
Saints
,
Psal
.
40.1
.
Psal
.
62.5
.
Psal
.
52.9
.
And
what
if
thou
waitest
upon
God
all
thy
days
?
Is
it
below
thee
?
And
what
if
God
will
cross
his
Book
and
blot
out
the
hand-writing
that
is
against
thee
,
and
not
let
thee
know
it
as
yet
?
Is
it
fit
to
say
unto
God
,
Thou
art
hard-hearted
?
Despair
not
.
Thou
hast
no
ground
to
depair
,
so
long
as
thou
livest
in
this
World
.
't
is
a
sin
to
begin
to
despair
before
one
sets
his
foot
over
the
threshold
of
Hell-gates
.
For
them
that
are
there
,
let
them
despair
and
spare
not
;
but
as
for
thee
,
thou
hast
no
ground
to
do
it
.
What!
Despair
of
Bread
,
in
a
Land
that
is
full
of
Corn
!
Despair
of
Mercy
when
our
God
is
full
of
Mercy
!
Despair
of
Mercy
,
when
God
goes
about
by
his
Ministers
,
beseeching
of
Sinners
to
be
reconciled
unto
him
!
2
Cor
.
5.18
,
19
,
20.
Thou
scrupulous
fool
,
where
canst
thou
find
that
God
was
ever
false
to
his
Promise
,
or
that
he
ever
deceived
the
Soul
that
ventured
it self
upon
him
?
He
often
calls
upon
Sinners
to
trust
him
,
though
they
walk
in
darkness
and
have
no
light
,
Isa
.
50.10
.
They
have
his
Promise
and
Oath
for
their
Salvation
,
that
flee
for
refuge
to
the
hope
set
before
them
,
Hebrews
6.17
,
18.
Despair
!
When
we
have
a
God
of
Mercy
,
and
a
Redeeming
Christ
Alive
!
For
shame
forbare
:
Let
them
despair
that
dwell
where
there
is
no
God
,
and
that
are
confined
to
those
Chambers
of
Death
,
which
can
be
reached
by
no
Redemption
.
A
Living
Man
despair
!
When
he
is
chid
for
murmuring
and
complaining
!
Lam
.
3.39
.
Oh!
so
long
as
we
are
where
Promises
swarm
,
where
Mercy
is
proclaimed
,
where
Grace
reigns
,
and
where
Jerusalem-sinners
are
priviledged
with
the
first
offer
of
Mercy
,
it
is
a
base
thing
to
despair
!
Despair
undervalues
the
Promise
,
undervalues
the
Invitation
,
undervalues
the
proffer
of
Grace
.
Despair
undervalues
the
ability
of
God
the
Father
,
and
the
redeeming
Blood
of
Christ
his
Son
:
Oh
unreasonable
Despair
!
Despair
makes
Man
God's
Judge
;
't
is
a
Controllir
of
the
Promise
,
a
Contradicter
of
Christ
in
his
large
offers
of
Mercy
:
And
one
that
undertakes
to
make
Unbelief
the
great
manager
of
our
Reason
and
Judgment
,
in
determining
about
what
God
can
and
will
do
for
Sinners
.
Despair
!
It
is
the
Devils
fellow
,
the
Devils
master
;
yea
,
the
Chains
with
which
he
is
captivated
and
held
under
darkness
for
ever
:
And
to
give
way
thereto
in
a
Land
,
in
a
State
and
Time
that
flows
with
Milk
and
Honey
,
is
an
uncomely
thing
.
I
would
say
to
my
Soul
;
O
my
Soul
!
this
is
not
the
place
of
Despair
,
this
is
not
the
time
to
despair
in
:
As
long
as
mine
eyes
can
find
a
Promise
in
the
Bible
;
as
long
as
there
is
the
least
mention
of
Grace
,
as
long
as
there
is
a
moment
left
me
of
breath
or
life
in
this
World
;
so
long
will
I
wait
and
look
for
Mercy
;
so
long
will
I
fight
against
Unbelief
and
Despair
.
This
is
the
way
to
honour
God
and
Christ
:
this
is
the
way
to
set
the
Crown
on
the
Promise
;
this
is
the
way
to
welcome
the
Invitation
,
and
Inviter
;
and
this
is
the
way
to
thrust
thy self
under
the
shelter
and
protection
of
the
word
of
Grace
.
Never
despair
so
long
as
our
Text
is
alive
,
for
that
doth
sound
it
out
,
That
Mercy
by
Christ
is
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinner
.
Despair
is
an
unprofitable
thing
,
't
will
make
a
man
weary
of
waiting
upon
God
,
2
Kings
6.33
.
't
will
make
a
man
forsake
God
,
and
seek
his
Heaven
in
the
good
things
of
this
world
,
Gen.
4.13
,
14
,
15
,
16
,
17.
't
will
make
a
man
his
own
tormenter
,
and
flounce
and
fling
like
a
wild
Bull
in
a
net
,
Isa
.
51.20
.
Despair
!
It
drives
a
man
to
the
study
of
his
own
ruine
,
and
brings
him
at
last
to
be
his
own
Executioner
,
2
Sam
.
17.23
.
Matt
.
27.3
,
4
,
5.
Besides
,
I
am
perswaded
also
,
that
Despair
is
the
cause
that
there
are
so
many
that
would
fain
be
Atheists
in
the
World
:
For
because
they
have
entertained
a
Conceit
that
God
will
never
be
merciful
to
them
;
therefore
they
labour
to
perswade
themselves
that
there
is
no
God
at
all
,
as
if
their
misbelief
would
kill
God
,
or
cause
him
to
cease
to
be
.
A
poor
shift
for
an
Immortal
Soul
,
for
a
Soul
who
liketh
not
to
retain
God
in
its
knowledge
!
If
this
be
the
best
that
Despair
can
do
,
let
it
go
,
Man
;
and
betake
thy self
to
Faith
,
to
Prayer
,
to
wait
for
God
,
and
to
hope
,
in
despite
of
ten
thousand
doubts
.
And
for
thy
encouragement
,
take
yet
(
as
an
addition
to
what
has
already
been
said
)
these
following
Scriptures
;
The
Lord
takes
pleasure
in
them
that
fear
him
,
in
them
that
hope
in
his
mercy
,
Psal
.
147.11
.
Whence
note
,
They
fear
not
God
,
that
hope
not
in
his
mercy
.
Also
,
God
is
angry
with
them
that
hope
not
in
his
Mercy
;
for
he
only
taketh
pleasure
in
them
that
hope
.
He
that
believeth
,
or
hath
received
his
Testimony
,
hath
set
to
his
Seal
that
God
is
true
,
Joh
.
3.33
.
But
he
that
receiveth
it
not
,
hath
made
him
a
liar
,
and
that
is
a
very
unworthy
thing
,
1
Joh
.
5.10
,
11.
Let
the
Wicked
forsake
his
ways
,
and
the
Unrighteous
man
his
thoughts
;
and
let
him
return
to
the
Lord
,
and
he
will
have
mercy
on
him
;
and
to
our
God
,
for
he
will
abundantly
multiply
pardons
,
Isa
.
55.7
.
Perhaps
thou
art
weary
of
thy
ways
,
but
art
not
weary
of
thy
thoughts
;
of
thy
unbelieving
and
despairing
thoughts
:
Now
God
also
would
have
thee
cast
away
these
thoughts
,
as
such
which
he
deserveth
not
at
thy
hands
,
for
he
will
have
mercy
upon
thee
,
and
he
will
abundantly
pardon
.
O
fools
!
and
slow
of
heart
to
believe
all
that
the
Prophets
have
spoken
,
Luk
.
24.25
.
Mark
you
here
,
slowness
to
believe
is
a
piece
of
folly
.
Ay!
but
sayest
thou
,
I
do
believe
some
,
I
believe
what
can
make
against
me
.
Ay
,
but
Sinner
,
Christ
Jesus
here
calls
thee
fool
for
not
believing
All.
Believe
All
,
and
despair
if
thou
canst
.
He
that
believes
All
,
believes
that
Text
that
saith
,
Christ
would
have
Mercy
Preached
first
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
.
He
that
believeth
All
,
believeth
all
the
Promises
and
Consolations
of
the
Word
;
and
the
Promises
and
Consolations
of
the
Word
,
weigh
heavier
then
do
all
the
Curses
and
Threatnings
of
the
Law
.
And
Mercy
rejoyceth
against
Judgment
.
Wherefore
believe
All
,
and
Mercy
will
to
thy
Conscience
,
weigh
Judgment
down
,
and
so
minister
Comfort
to
thy
Soul
.
The
Lord
take
the
Yoke
from
off
thy
Jaws
,
since
he
has
set
Meat
before
thee
,
Hos
.
11.4
.
And
help
thee
to
remember
that
he
is
pleased
in
the
first
place
to
offer
Mercy
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
Sixthly
,
Since
Jesus
Christ
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
,
Let
Souls
see
that
they
lay
right
hold
thereof
;
lest
they
,
notwithstanding
,
indeed
come
short
thereof
.
Faith
only
knows
how
to
deal
with
Mercy
;
wherefore
put
not
in
the
place
thereof
Presumption
.
I
have
observed
,
that
as
there
are
Herbs
and
Flowers
in
our
Gardens
,
so
there
are
their
Counterseits
in
the
Field
;
only
they
are
distinguished
from
the
other
by
the
Name
of
Wild
Ones
.
Why
,
there
is
Faith
,
and
Wild
Faith
;
and
Wild
Faith
is
this
Presumption
?
I
call
it
Wild
Faith
,
because
God
never
placed
it
in
his
Garden
,
his
Church
;
't
is
only
to
be
found
in
the
Field
,
the
World
.
I
also
call
it
Wild
Faith
,
because
it
only
grows
up
,
and
is
nourished
where
other
wild
notions
abounds
.
Wherefore
take
heed
of
this
,
and
all
may
be
well
:
For
this
presumptuousness
is
a
very
heinous
thing
in
the
eyes
of
God
:
The
Soul
,
saith
he
,
that
shall
do
ought
presumptuously
(
whether
born
in
the
Land
or
a
stranger
)
the
same
reproacheth
the
Lord
;
And
that
Soul
shall
be
cut
off
from
among
his
people
,
Num
.
15.30
.
The
thoughts
of
this
made
David
tremble
,
and
pray
,
That
God
would
hold
him
back
from
presumptuous
sins
,
and
not
suffer
them
to
have
dominion
over
him
,
Psal
.
19.13
.
Now
this
Presumption
,
Then
put
its
self
in
the
place
of
Faith
,
when
it
tampereth
with
the
promise
for
Life
,
while
the
Soul
is
a
stranger
to
Repentance
.
Wherefore
you
have
in
the
Text
,
to
prevent
doing
thus
,
both
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sins
to
be
offered
to
Jerusalem
,
not
Remission
without
Repentance
:
For
all
that
repent
not
shall
perish
,
let
them
presume
on
Grace
and
the
Promise
while
they
will
,
Luk
.
13.1
,
2
,
3.
Presumption
then
is
that
which
severeth
Faith
and
Repentance
,
concluding
that
the
Soul
shall
be
saved
by
Grace
,
though
the
man
was
never
made
sorry
for
his
sins
,
nor
the
love
of
the
Heart
turned
therefrom
.
This
is
to
be
self-willed
,
as
Peter
has
it
.
And
this
is
a
despising
the
Word
of
the
Lord
,
for
that
has
put
Repentance
and
Faith
together
,
Mark
1.15
.
And
because
he
hath
de
spised
the
Word
of
the
Lord
,
and
hath
broken
the
Commandment
,
that
Soul
shall
utterly
be
cut
off
:
his
iniquities
shall
be
upon
him
,
Numb
.
15.31
.
Let
such
therefore
look
it
,
who
yet
are
,
and
abide
in
their
sins
;
for
such
,
if
they
hope
,
as
they
are
,
to
be
saved
,
presume
upon
the
grace
of
God
.
Wherefore
Presumption
and
not
harkening
to
God's
Word
,
are
put
together
,
Deut.
17.12
.
Again
,
Then
men
presume
when
they
are
resolved
to
abide
in
their
sins
,
and
sins
,
yet
expect
to
be
saved
by
God's
grace
through
Christ
.
This
is
as
much
as
to
say
,
God
liketh
of
Sin
as
well
as
I
do
,
and
careth
not
how
men
live
,
if
so
be
they
lean
upon
his
Son
.
Of
this
sort
are
they
that
build
up
Zion
with
Blood
,
and
Jerusalem
with
Iniquity
;
That
Judge
for
reward
,
and
Teach
for
hier
,
and
Divine
for
mony
,
and
lean
upon
the
Lord
,
Mic.
3.10
,
11.
This
is
doing
things
with
an
high
hand
against
the
Lord
our
God
,
and
a
taking
him
,
as
it
were
,
at
the
Catch
!
This
is
,
as
we
say
among
men
,
to
seek
to
put
a
trick
upon
God
,
as
if
he
had
not
sufficiently
fortified
his
Proposals
of
Grace
by
his
holy
Word
,
against
all
such
kind
of
fools
as
these
.
But
look
to
it
,
Such
will
be
found
at
the
day
of
God
,
not
among
that
great
company
of
Jerusalem-sinners
,
that
shall
be
saved
by
Grace
,
but
among
those
that
have
been
the
great
abusers
of
the
grace
of
God
in
the
World
.
These
that
say
,
Let
us
sin
that
Grace
may
abound
,
and
let
us
do
Evil
that
Good
may
come
,
their
Damnation
is
just
.
And
if
so
,
they
are
a
great
way
off
of
that
Salvation
that
is
by
Jesus
Christ
presented
to
the
Jerusalem-sinners
.
I
have
therefore
these
things
to
propound
to
that
Jerusalem-sinner
that
would
know
,
if
he
may
be
so
bold
to
venture
himself
upon
this
Grace
.
First
,
Dost
thou
see
thy
si●s
?
Secondly
,
Art
thou
weary
of
them
?
Thirdly
,
Wouldst
thou
with
all
thy
heart
be
saved
by
Jesus
Christ
?
I
dare
say
no
less
,
I
dare
say
no
more
.
But
if
it
be
truly
thus
with
thee
,
how
great
soever
thy
sins
have
been
,
how
bad
soever
thou
feelest
thy
heart
,
how
far
soever
thou
art
from
thinking
that
God
has
mercy
for
thee
;
thou
art
the
Man
,
the
Jerusalem-sinner
,
that
the
Word
of
God
has
conquered
,
and
to
whom
it
offereth
free
Remission
of
sins
,
by
the
Redemption
that
is
in
Jesus
Christ
.
When
the
Jayler
cried
out
,
Sirs
,
What
must
I
do
to
be
saved
?
The
answer
was
,
Believe
on
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
and
thou
shalt
be
saved
.
He
that
sees
his
sins
aright
,
is
brought
to
his
wits-end
by
them
,
and
he
that
is
so
,
is
willing
to
part
from
them
,
and
to
be
saved
by
the
grace
of
God
.
If
this
be
thy
Case
,
fear
not
,
give
no
way
to
Despair
,
thou
presumest
not
,
if
thou
believest
to
life
everlasting
in
Jesus
Christ
.
Yea
,
Christ
is
prepared
for
such
as
thou
art
.
Therefore
take
good
courage
and
believe
.
The
design
of
Satan
is
to
tell
the
Presumptuous
,
that
their
presuming
on
Mercy
is
good
;
but
to
perswade
the
Believer
,
that
his
believing
is
impudent
bold
dealing
with
God
.
I
never
heard
a
presumptuous
man
in
my
life
,
say
that
he
was
afraid
that
he
presumed
;
but
I
have
heard
many
an
honest
humble
Soul
say
,
that
they
have
been
afraid
that
their
Faith
has
been
Presumption
.
Why
should
Satan
molest
those
whose
ways
he
knows
will
bring
them
to
him
?
And
who
can
think
that
he
should
be
quiet
when
men
take
the
right
course
to
escape
his
hellish
snares
.
This
therefore
is
the
reason
why
the
truly
humbled
is
opposed
,
while
the
Presumptuous
goes
on
by
Wind
and
Tide
.
The
truly
humble
,
Satan
hates
,
but
he
laughs
to
see
the
foolery
of
the
other
.
Does
thy
hand
and
heart
tremble
?
Upon
thee
the
Promise
smiles
;
To
this
man
will
I
look
,
says
God
,
even
to
him
that
is
poor
,
and
of
a
contrite
spirit
,
and
trembles
at
my
Word
,
Isa
.
66.2
.
What
therefore
I
have
said
of
Presumption
,
concerns
not
the
humble
in
Spirit
at
all
.
I
therefore
am
for
gathering
up
the
Stones
,
and
for
taking
the
Stumbling-blocks
out
of
the
way
of
God's
People
;
and
fore-warning
of
them
that
they
lay
the
stumbling
block
of
their
Iniquity
before
their
faces
,
and
that
are
for
presuming
upon
God's
mercy
;
and
let
them
look
to
themselves
,
Ezekiel
14.6
,
7
,
8.
Also
our
Text
stands
firm
as
ever
it
did
,
and
our
Observation
is
still
of
force
,
That
Jesus
Christ
would
have
mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
.
So
then
,
let
none
Despair
,
let
none
Presume
;
Let
none
despair
that
are
sorry
for
their
sins
,
and
would
be
saved
by
Jesus
Christ
:
Let
none
Presume
,
that
abide
in
the
liking
of
their
sins
,
though
they
seem
to
know
the
exceeding
grace
of
Christ
;
for
tho
the
door
stand
wide
open
for
the
reception
of
the
Penitent
,
yet
't
is
fast
enough
barr'd
and
bolted
against
the
presumptuous
sinner
.
Be
not
deceived
,
God
is
not
mocked
,
whatsoever
a
man
sows
,
that
he
shall
reap
.
It
cannot
be
that
God
should
be
wheedled
out
of
his
Mercy
,
or
prevailed
upon
by
lips
of
dissimulation
;
He
knows
them
that
trust
in
him
,
and
that
sincerely
come
to
him
by
Christ
for
mercy
,
Nahum
.
1.7
.
It
is
then
,
not
the
abundance
of
sins
committed
,
but
the
not
coming
heartily
to
God
by
Christ
for
Mercy
,
that
shuts
men
out
of
doors
:
And
though
their
not
coming
heartily
may
be
said
to
be
But
a
Sin
;
yet
't
is
Such
a
Sin
,
as
causeth
that
all
thy
other
sins
abide
upon
thee
unforgiven
.
God
complains
of
this
.
They
have
not
cried
unto
me
with
their
heart
;
They
turned
,
but
not
to
the
most
High
.
They
turned
feignedly
,
Jer
.
3.10
.
Hos
.
7.14
,
16.
Thus
doing
,
his
Soul
hates
;
but
the
Penitent
,
humble
,
broken-hearted
Sinner
,
be
his
Transgressions
red
as
Scarlet
,
red
like
Crimson
,
in
number
as
the
Sand
;
though
his
transgressions
cry
to
Heaven
against
him
for
Vengeance
,
and
seem
there
to
cry
louder
than
do
his
Prayers
,
or
Tears
,
or
Groans
for
Mercy
;
yet
he
is
safe
.
To
this
man
God
will
look
,
Isa
.
1.18
.
chap.
66
2.
Seventhly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
?
Then
here
is
ground
for
those
that
,
as
to
practice
,
have
Not
been
such
,
to
come
to
him
for
mercy
.
Although
there
is
no
Sin
little
of
it self
,
because
it
is
a
contradiction
of
the
Nature
and
Majesty
of
God
;
yet
we
must
admit
of
diverse
numbers
,
and
also
of
aggravations
.
Two
Sins
are
not
so
many
as
three
;
nor
are
three
,
that
are
done
in
ignorance
,
so
big
as
●ne
that
is
done
against
light
,
against
knowledge
,
and
conscience
.
Also
there
is
the
Child
in
Sin
,
and
the
Man
in
sin
that
has
his
Hairs
gray
,
and
his
Skin
wrinkled
for
very
Age
.
And
we
must
put
a
difference
betwixt
these
Sinners
also
.
For
can
it
be
,
that
a
Child
of
seven
,
or
ten
,
or
sixteen
years
old
,
should
be
such
a
Sinner
,
a
Sinner
so
vile
in
the
eye
of
the
Law
,
as
he
is
who
has
walked
according
to
the
course
of
this
World
,
forty
,
fifty
,
sixty
,
or
seventy
Years
?
Now
the
Youth
,
this
Stripling
,
though
he
is
a
Sinner
,
is
but
a
little
sinner
,
when
compared
with
such
.
Now
I
say
,
If
there
be
room
for
the
first
sort
,
for
those
of
the
biggest
size
;
certainly
there
is
room
for
the
lesser
size
?
If
there
be
a
Door
wide
enough
for
a
Gyant
to
go
in
at
,
there
is
certainly
room
for
a
Dwarff
.
If
Christ
Jesus
has
Grace
enough
to
save
great
sinners
,
he
has
surely
Grace
enough
to
save
little
ones
.
If
he
can
forgive
five
hundred
pence
,
for
certain
he
can
forgive
fifty
,
Luk
.
7.41
,
42.
But
you
said
before
,
that
the
little
sinners
must
stand
by
,
until
the
great
ones
have
received
their
grace
,
and
that
's
discouraging
!
I
answer●
There
are
two
sorts
of
little
Sinners
,
such
as
are
so
,
such
as
feign
themselves
so
.
There
are
those
that
feign
themselves
so
,
them
I
intended
there
,
and
not
those
that
are
indeed
comparatively
so
.
Such
as
feign
themselves
so
,
may
wait
long
enough
before
they
obtain
Forgiveness
.
But
again
,
A
Sinner
may
be
comparatively
a
little
sinner
,
and
sensibly
a
great
one
.
There
is
then
two
sorts
of
greatness
in
sin
;
greatness
by
reason
of
number
,
greatness
by
reason
of
throughness
of
conviction
of
the
horrible
nature
of
Sin
.
In
this
last
sense
,
he
that
has
but
one
sin
,
if
such
a
one
could
be
found
,
may
in
his
own
eyes
find
himself
the
biggest
sinner
in
the
world
.
Let
this
Man
,
or
this
Child
,
therefore
put
himself
among
the
great
sinners
,
and
plead
with
God
as
great
sinners
do
,
and
expect
to
be
saved
with
the
great
sinners
,
and
as
soon
,
and
as
hearttily
as
they
.
Yea
,
a
little
sinner
,
that
comparatively
is
truly
so
,
if
he
shall
graciously
give
way
to
Conviction
,
and
shall
in
God's
light
,
diligently
weigh
the
horrible
nature
of
his
own
sins
,
may
yet
sooner
obtain
Forgiveness
for
them
at
the
hands
of
the
heavenly
Father
,
than
h●
that
has
ten
times
his
sins
,
and
so
cause
to
cry
ten
times
harder
to
God
for
mercy
.
For
the
grievousness
of
the
Cry
is
a
great
thing
with
God
;
for
if
he
will
hear
the
Widdow
,
if
she
cries
at
all
,
how
much
more
if
she
cries
most
grievously
?
Exod
.
22.22
,
23.
It
is
not
the
number
,
but
the
true
sense
of
the
abominable
nature
of
Sin
,
that
makes
the
Cry
for
Pardon
lamentable
.
He
,
as
I
said
,
that
has
many
sins
,
may
not
cry
so
loud
in
the
ears
of
God
,
as
he
that
has
far
fewer
;
he
in
our
present
sense
,
that
is
in
his
own
eyes
the
biggest
sinner
,
is
he
that
soonest
findeth
mercy
.
The
offer
Then
is
to
the
Biggest
sinner
,
to
the
biggest
sinner
First
,
and
the
mercy
is
first
obtained
by
him
that
first
confesseth
himself
to
be
such
an
one
.
There
are
men
that
strive
at
the
throne
of
Grace
for
Mercy
,
by
pleading
the
greatness
of
their
Necessity
.
Now
their
Plea
,
as
to
the
prevalency
of
it
,
lieth
not
in
their
counting
up
of
the
number
,
but
in
the
sense
of
the
greatness
of
their
sins
,
and
in
the
vehemency
of
their
cry
for
Pardon
.
And
it
is
observable
,
that
though
the
birth-right
was
Rubens
,
and
for
his
foolishness
,
given
to
the
Sons
of
Joseph
;
yet
Judah
prevailed
above
his
Brethren
,
and
of
him
came
the
Messias
,
1
Chron
.
5.1
,
2.
There
is
a
heavenly
subtilty
to
be
mannaged
in
this
matter
.
Thy
Brother
came
with
subtilty
,
and
hath
taken
away
thy
blessing
.
The
blessing
belonged
to
Esau
,
but
Jacob
by
his
diligence
made
it
his
own
,
Gen.
27.35
.
The
offer
is
to
the
biggest
sinner
,
to
the
biggest
sinner
first
,
but
if
he
forbears
to
cry
,
the
sinner
that
is
a
sinner
less
by
far
than
he
,
both
as
to
number
and
the
nature
of
transgression
,
may
get
the
blessing
first
,
if
he
shall
have
grace
to
bestir
himself
well
;
for
the
loudest
cry
is
heard
furthest
,
and
the
most
lamentable
,
pierces
soonest
.
I
therefore
urge
this
Head
,
not
because
I
would
have
little
sinners
go
and
tell
God
that
they
are
little
sinners
,
thereby
to
think
to
obtain
his
Mercy
;
for
verily
,
so
they
are
never
like
to
have
it
:
For
such
words
declare
,
that
such
a
one
hath
no
true
sense
at
all
of
the
nature
of
his
sins
.
Sin
,
as
I
said
,
in
the
nature
of
it
,
is
horrible
;
though
it
be
but
one
single
sin
as
to
act
;
yea
,
though
it
be
but
a
sinful
thought
▪
and
so
worthily
calls
for
the
〈…〉
of
the
Soul
.
The
Comparison
then
,
of
little
and
great
Sinner
,
is
to
go
for
good
sense
among
men
:
But
to
plead
the
fewness
of
thy
sins
,
or
the
comparative
harmlesness
of
their
quantity
before
God
,
argueth
no
sound
knowledge
of
the
nature
of
thy
Sin
,
and
so
no
true
sense
of
the
nature
or
need
of
Mercy
.
Little
Sinner
,
when
therefore
thou
goest
to
God
,
though
thou
knowest
in
thy
Conscience
,
that
thou
,
as
to
acts
,
art
no
Thief
,
no
Murderer
,
no
Whore
,
no
Liar
,
no
false
Swearer
,
or
the
like
,
and
in
reason
must
needs
understand
,
that
thus
thou
art
not
so
profanely
vile
as
others
;
yet
when
thou
goest
to
God
for
Mercy
,
know
no
mans
sins
but
thine
own
,
make
mention
of
no
mans
sins
but
thine
own
.
Also
labour
not
to
lessen
thy
own
,
but
magnifie
and
greaten
them
by
all
just
Circumstances
,
and
be
as
if
there
was
never
a
Sinner
in
the
world
but
thy self
.
Also
cry
out
as
if
thou
wast
the
only
undone
Man
;
and
that
is
the
way
to
obtain
God's
mercy
.
It
is
one
of
the
comliest
Sights
in
the
world
,
to
see
a
little
Sinner
commenting
upon
the
greatness
of
his
sins
;
multiplying
,
and
multiplying
them
to
himself
,
till
he
ma●es
them
in
his
own
eyes
bigger
and
higher
than
he
seeth
any
other
mans
●ins
to
be
in
the
World
;
and
as
base
a
thing
it
is
to
see
a
man
do
otherwise
,
and
as
basely
will
come
on
't
,
Luk
.
18.10
,
11
,
12
,
13.
As
therefore
I
said
to
the
great
Sinner
before
,
let
him
take
heed
lest
he
presumes
:
I
say
now
to
the
little
Sinner
,
let
him
take
heed
that
he
don't
dissemble
:
For
there
is
as
great
an
aptness
in
the
little
Sinner
to
dissemble
,
as
there
is
in
the
great
one
.
He
that
hideth
his
sins
shall
not
prosper
,
be
he
a
sinner
little
or
great
,
Prov.
28.13
.
Eighthly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
?
Then
this
shews
the
true
cause
,
why
Satan
makes
such
head
as
he
doth
against
him
.
The
Father
and
the
holy
Spirit
are
well
spoken
of
by
all
Deluders
and
deceived
Persons
;
Christ
only
is
the
Rock
of
Offence
.
Behold
,
I
lay
in
Zion
a
stumbling
Stone
and
a
Rock
of
Offence
,
Rom.
9.33
.
Not
that
Satan
careth
for
the
Father
or
the
Spirit
more
than
he
careth
for
the
Son
,
but
he
can
let
men
alone
with
their
notions
of
the
Father
and
the
Spirit
,
for
he
knows
they
shall
never
enjoy
the
Father
or
the
Spirit
,
if
indeed
they
receive
not
the
Merits
of
the
Son
.
He
that
hath
the
Son
,
hath
Life
;
he
that
hath
not
the
Son
of
God
hath
not
Life
,
however
they
may
boast
themselves
of
the
Father
and
the
Spirit
,
1
Joh
.
5.12
.
Again
,
Whosoever
transgresseth
,
and
abideth
not
in
the
Doctrine
of
Christ
,
hath
not
God
:
He
that
abideth
in
the
Doctrine
of
Christ
,
hath
both
the
Father
and
the
Son
,
2
Joh
.
9.
Christ
,
and
Christ
only
is
he
that
can
make
us
capable
to
enjoy
God
with
Life
and
Joy
to
all
eternity
.
Hence
he
calls
himself
The
Way
to
the
Father
;
The
true
and
living
Way
,
Joh
.
14.6
.
Heb
.
10.19
,
20.
For
we
cannot
come
to
the
Father
but
by
him
.
Satan
knows
this
,
therefore
he
hates
him
.
Deluded
Persons
are
ignorant
of
this
,
and
therefore
they
are
so
led
up
and
down
by
Satan
by
the
nose
,
as
they
are
.
There
are
many
things
by
which
Satan
has
taken
occasion
to
greaten
his
rage
against
Jesus
Christ
.
As
first
,
His
love
to
Man
,
and
then
the
many
expressions
of
that
love
.
He
hath
taken
Man's
nature
upon
him
;
he
hath
in
that
nature
fulfilled
the
Law
to
bring
in
Righteousness
for
Man
;
and
hath
spilt
this
Blood
for
the
reconciling
of
Man
to
God
;
he
hath
broke
the
neck
of
Death
,
put
away
Sin
,
destroyed
the
works
of
the
Devil
,
and
got
into
his
own
hands
the
Keys
of
Death
:
and
all
these
are
heinous
things
to
Satan
.
He
cannot
abide
Christ
for
this
.
Besides
,
he
hath
eternal
Life
in
himself
,
and
that
to
bestow
upon
us
;
and
we
in
all
likelihood
are
to
possess
the
very
places
,
from
which
the
Satans
by
transgression
fell
,
if
not
places
more
glorious
.
Wherefore
he
must
needs
be
angry
.
And
is
it
not
a
vexatious
thing
to
him
,
that
we
should
be
admitted
to
the
Throne
of
Grace
by
Christ
,
while
he
stands
bound
over
in
Chams
of
Darkness
,
to
answer
for
his
Rebellions
against
God
and
his
Son
,
at
the
terrible
day
of
Judgment
.
Yea
,
we
poor
Dust
and
Ashes
must
become
his
Judges
,
and
triumph
over
him
for
ever
;
and
all
this
long
of
Jesus
Christ
;
for
he
is
the
Meritorious
Cause
of
all
this
.
Now
though
Satan
seeks
to
be
revenged
for
this
,
yet
he
knows
it
is
in
vain
to
attack
the
Person
of
Christ
,
he
has
overcome
him
;
therefore
he
tampers
with
a
company
of
silly
Men
,
that
he
may
Villifie
him
by
them
.
And
they
,
bold
fools
as
they
are
,
will
not
spare
to
spit
in
his
face
.
They
will
rail
at
his
Person
,
and
deny
the
very
Being
of
it
;
they
will
rail
at
his
Blood
,
and
deny
the
Merit
and
Worth
of
it
.
They
will
deny
the
very
end
,
why
he
accomplished
the
Law
,
and
by
jiggs
,
and
tricks
,
and
quirks
,
which
he
helpeth
them
to
,
they
set
up
fond
Names
and
Images
in
his
place
,
and
give
the
glory
of
a
Saviour
to
them
.
Thus
Satan
worketh
under
the
Name
of
Christ
;
and
his
Ministers
,
under
the
name
of
the
Ministers
of
Righteousness
.
And
by
his
Wiles
and
Stratagems
he
undoes
a
world
of
men
;
But
there
is
a
Seed
,
and
they
shall
serve
him
,
and
it
shall
be
counted
to
the
Lord
for
a
Generation
.
These
shall
see
their
sins
,
and
that
Christ
is
the
Way
to
Happiness
.
These
shall
venture
themselves
both
Body
and
Soul
upon
his
Worthiness
.
All
this
Satan
knows
,
and
therefore
his
rage
is
kindled
the
more
.
Wherefore
according
to
his
ability
and
allowance
,
he
assaulteth
,
tempteth
,
abuseth
,
and
stirs
up
what
he
can
to
be
hurtful
to
these
poor
People
,
that
he
may
,
while
his
time
shall
last
,
make
it
as
hard
and
difficult
for
them
to
go
to
eternal
Glory
as
he
can
.
Often-times
he
abus●s
them
with
wrong
apprehensions
of
God
,
and
with
wrong
apprehensions
of
Christ
.
He
also
casts
them
into
the
Mire
,
to
the
reproach
of
Religion
,
the
shame
of
their
Brethren
,
the
derision
of
the
World
,
and
dishonour
of
God
.
He
holds
our
hands
while
the
World
buffets
us
;
he
puts
Bear-skins
upon
us
,
and
then
sets
the
Dogs
at
us
.
He
hedawbeth
us
with
his
own
Fome
,
and
then
tempts
us
to
believe
that
that
bedawbing
comes
from
our selves
.
Oh!
the
rage
and
the
roaring
of
this
Lion
!
and
the
hatred
that
he
manifests
against
the
Lord
Jesus
,
and
against
them
that
are
purchased
with
his
Blood
!
But
yet
in
the
midst
of
all
this
,
the
Lord
Jesus
sends
forth
his
Herralds
to
proclaim
in
the
Nations
,
his
love
to
the
World
;
and
to
invite
them
to
come
in
to
him
for
Life
:
Yea
,
his
Invitation
is
so
large
,
that
it
offereth
his
Mercy
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
of
every
Age
,
which
augments
the
Devils
rage
the
more
.
Wherefore
,
as
I
said
before
,
fret
he
,
sume
he
,
the
Lord
Jesus
will
divide
the
Spoil
with
this
great
one
;
yea
,
he
shall
divide
the
Spoil
with
the
strong
,
because
he
hath
poured
out
his
Soul
unto
death
,
and
was
numbred
with
the
Transgressors
,
and
bare
the
sin
of
many
,
and
made
Intercession
for
the
transgressors
,
Isa
.
53.12
.
Ninthly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
?
Let
the
Tempted
harp
upon
This
string
for
their
help
and
consolation
.
The
Tempted
wherever
he
dwells
,
always
thinks
himself
the
biggest
Sinner
,
one
most
unworthy
of
eternal
Life
.
This
is
Satans
master
Argument
;
Thou
art
a
horrible
Sinner
,
a
Hypocrite
,
one
that
has
a
profane
heart
,
and
one
that
is
an
utter
stranger
to
a
work
of
Grace
.
I
say
,
this
is
his
Maul
,
his
Club
,
his
Master-piece
,
He
doth
with
this
as
some
do
by
their
most
inchanting
Songs
,
sings
them
every
where
.
I
believe
there
are
but
few
Saints
in
the
World
that
have
not
had
this
temptation
sounding
in
their
ears
.
But
were
they
but
aware
,
Satan
by
all
this
,
does
but
drive
them
to
the
Gap
out
at
which
they
should
go
,
and
so
escape
his
roaring
.
Saith
he
,
Thou
art
a
great
Sinner
,
a
a
horrible
Sinner
,
a
profane
hearted
Wretch
,
one
that
cannot
be
matcht
for
a
Vile
one
in
the
Countrey
.
And
all
this
while
Christ
says
to
his
Ministers
,
Offer
Mercy
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
.
So
that
this
Temptation
drives
thee
directly
into
the
Arms
of
Jesus
Christ
.
Was
therefore
the
Tempted
but
aware
,
he
might
say
,
Ay
,
Satan
,
so
I
am
,
I
am
a
Sinner
of
the
biggest
size
,
and
therefore
have
most
need
of
Jesus
Christ
.
Yea
,
because
I
am
such
a
wretch
,
therefore
Jesus
Christ
calls
me
;
yea
,
he
calls
me
first
:
The
first
proffer
of
the
Gospel
is
to
be
made
to
the
Jerusalemsinner
:
I
am
he
,
wherefore
stand
back
Satan
,
make
a
lane
,
my
right
is
first
to
come
to
Jesus
Christ
.
This
now
would
be
like
for
like
.
This
would
foil
the
Devil
:
This
would
make
him
say
,
I
must
not
deal
with
this
man
thus
;
for
then
I
put
a
Sword
into
his
hand
to
cut
off
my
head
.
And
this
is
the
meaning
of
Peter
,
when
he
saith
,
Resist
him
stedfast
in
the
Faith
,
1
Pet
.
5.9
.
And
of
Paul
,
when
he
saith
,
Take
the
Shield
of
Faith
,
wherewith
ye
shall
be
able
to
quench
all
the
fiery
Darts
of
the
Wicked
,
Ephes
.
6.16
.
Wherefore
is
it
said
,
Begin
at
Jerusalem
,
if
the
Jerusalem-sinner
is
not
to
have
the
benefit
of
it
?
And
if
I
am
to
have
the
benefit
of
it
,
let
m●
call
it
to
mind
when
Satan
haunts
me
with
the
continual
remembrance
of
my
sins
,
of
my
Jerusalem-sins
.
Satan
and
my
Conscience
says
,
I
am
the
biggest
sinner
,
Christ
offereth
Mercy
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
sinners
.
Nor
is
the
manner
of
the
Offer
other
but
such
as
suiteth
with
my
mind
.
I
am
sorry
for
my
sin
;
yea
,
sorry
at
my
heart
that
ever
sinful
Thought
did
enter
,
or
find
the
least
entertainment
in
my
wicked
mind
:
And
might
I
obtain
my
Wish
,
I
would
never
more
that
my
heart
should
be
a
place
for
ought
but
the
Grace
,
and
Spirit
,
and
Faith
of
the
Lord
Jesus
.
I
speak
not
this
to
lessen
my
Wickedness
;
I
would
not
for
all
the
World
,
but
be
placed
by
mine
own
Conscience
in
the
very
front
of
the
biggest
Sinners
,
that
I
might
be
one
of
the
first
that
are
beckoned
by
the
gracious
Hand
of
Jesus
the
Savi●ur
,
to
come
to
him
for
Mercy
.
Well
Sinner
,
thou
now
speakest
like
a
Christian
,
but
say
thus
in
a
strong
Spirit
in
the
hour
of
Temptation
,
and
then
thou
wilt
,
to
thy
commendation
and
comfort
,
quit
thy self
well
.
This
improving
of
Christ
in
dark
ho●rs
,
is
the
Life
,
though
the
hardest
part
of
our
Christianity
.
We
should
neither
stop
▪
at
Darkness
,
nor
at
the
raging
of
our
husts
,
but
go
on
in
a
way
of
venturing
and
casting
the
whole
of
our
Affair
for
the
next
World
,
at
the
foot
of
Jesus
Christ
.
This
is
the
way
to
make
the
Darkness
light
,
and
also
to
alay
the
raging
of
our
Corruption
.
The
first
time
the
Passover
was
eaten
,
was
in
the
night
;
and
when
Israel
took
Courage
to
go
forward
,
though
the
Sea
stood
in
their
way
like
a
devouring
Gulf
,
and
the
Host
of
the
Aegyptians
follow
them
at
the
heels
;
yet
the
Sea
gives
place
,
and
their
Enemies
were
as
still
as
a
stone
till
they
was
gone
over
,
Exod
.
12.8
.
Chap.
14.13
,
14
,
21
,
22.
Chap.
15
,
16.
There
is
nothing
like
Faith
to
help
at
a
pinch
;
Faith
dissolves
Doubts
,
as
the
Sun
drives
away
the
Mist
.
And
that
you
may
not
be
put
out
,
know
your
time
,
as
I
said
,
of
believing
is
always
.
There
are
times
when
some
Graces
may
be
out
of
use
,
but
there
is
no
time
wherein
Faith
can
be
said
to
be
so
.
Wherefore
Faith
must
be
always
in
exercise
.
Faith
is
the
eye
,
is
the
mouth
,
is
the
hand
,
and
one
of
these
is
of
use
all
day
long
.
Faith
is
to
see
,
to
receive
,
to
work
,
or
to
eat
;
and
a
Christian
should
be
seeing
or
receiving
,
or
working
,
or
feeding
all
day
long
.
Let
it
rain
,
let
it
blow
,
let
it
thunder
,
let
it
lighten
,
a
Christian
must
still
believe
:
At
what
time
,
said
the
Good
man
,
I
am
afraid
,
I
will
trust
in
thee
,
Psal
.
56.2
,
3.
Nor
can
we
have
a
better
encouragement
to
do
this
,
than
is
by
the
Text
set
before
us
,
even
an
open
heart
for
a
Jerusalem-sinner
.
And
if
for
a
Jerusalemsinner
to
come
,
then
for
such
an
one
,
when
come
.
If
such
a
one
To
Be
saved
,
then
for
such
a
one
that
Is
saved
.
If
for
such
a
one
To
be
pardoned
his
great
transgressions
,
then
for
such
a
one
who
Is
pardoned
these
,
to
come
daily
to
Jesus
Christ
too
,
to
be
cleansed
and
set
free
from
his
common
Infirmities
,
and
from
the
Iniquities
of
his
holy
things
.
Therefore
let
the
poor
Sinner
that
would
be
saved
,
labour
for
skill
to
make
the
best
Improvement
of
the
grace
of
Christ
to
help
him
against
the
temptations
of
the
Devil
and
his
Sins
.
Tenthly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
?
Let
those
men
consider
this
,
that
(
have
,
or
)
may
in
a
day
of
trial
have
spoken
or
done
〈…〉
●●●fession
or
Conscience
told
them
they
should
not
,
and
that
have
the
guilt
and
burden
thereof
upon
their
Consciences
.
Whether
a
thing
be
wrong
or
right
,
Guilt
may
pursue
him
that
doth
contrary
to
his
Conscience
.
But
suppose
a
man
should
deny
his
God
,
or
his
Christ
,
or
relinquish
a
good
Profession
,
and
be
under
the
real
guilt
thereof
?
Shall
he
therefore
conclude
he
is
gone
for
ever
?
Let
him
come
again
with
Peter's
tears
,
and
no
doubt
but
he
shall
obtain
Peter's
Forgiveness
.
For
the
Text
includes
the
biggest
sinners
.
And
't
is
observable
,
That
before
this
Clause
was
put
into
this
Commission
,
Peter
was
pardoned
his
horrible
Revolt
from
his
Master
.
He
that
Revolteth
in
the
day
of
Trial
,
if
he
is
not
shot
quite
dead
upon
the
place
,
but
is
sensible
of
his
Wound
,
and
calls
out
for
a
Chyrurgion
,
shall
find
his
Lord
at
hand
to
pour
Wine
and
Oyl
into
his
Wounds
,
that
he
may
again
be
healed
.
And
to
incourage
him
to
think
that
there
may
be
Mercy
for
him
:
Besides
what
we
find
Recorded
of
Peter
,
you
read
in
the
Acts
,
some
was
through
the
violence
of
their
Trials
,
compelled
to
Blaspheme
,
and
yet
are
called
Saints
,
Acts
26.9
,
10
,
11.
Hence
you
have
a
Promise
or
two
that
speaks
concerning
such
kind
of
Men
,
to
incourage
us
to
think
that
at
least
some
of
them
shall
come
back
to
the
Lord
their
God
.
Shall
they
fall
,
saith
he
,
and
not
arise
?
Shall
they
turn
away
,
and
not
return
?
Jer
.
8.4
.
And
in
that
day
I
will
assemble
her
that
halteth
,
and
I
will
gather
her
that
was
driven
out
,
and
her
that
I
have
afflicted
.
And
I
will
make
her
that
halteth
a
Remnant
,
and
her
that
was
cast
off
,
a
strong
Nation
;
And
the
Lord
shall
reign
over
them
in
Mount
Zion
for
ever
.
What
we
are
to
understand
by
her
that
halteth
,
is
best
expressed
by
the
Prophet
Elijah
,
Mic.
4.6
,
7.
Zeph
.
3.19
.
1
Kings
28.21
.
I
will
conclude
then
,
that
for
them
that
have
halted
,
or
may
halt
,
the
Lord
has
Mercy
in
the
Bank
,
and
is
willing
to
accept
them
if
they
return
to
him
again
.
Perhaps
they
may
never
be
after
that
of
any
great
esteem
in
the
House
of
God
,
but
if
the
Lord
will
admit
them
to
favour
and
forgiveness
.
O
exceeding
and
undeserved
Mercy
!
See
Ezek
.
44.10
,
11
,
12
,
13
,
14.
Thou
then
that
mayest
be
the
Man
,
Remember
this
,
that
there
is
Mercy
also
for
thee
.
Return
therefore
to
God
,
and
to
his
Son
,
who
hath
yet
in
store
for
thee
,
and
who
will
do
thee
good
.
But
perhaps
thou
wilt
say
,
He
doth
not
save
all
Revolters
,
and
therefore
perhaps
not
me
.
Answer
,
Art
thou
returning
to
God
?
If
thou
art
returning
,
thou
art
the
Man
.
Return
ye
backsliding
Children
,
and
I
will
heal
your
backslidings
,
Jer
.
3.22
.
Some
,
as
I
said
,
that
Revolt
,
are
shot
dead
upon
the
place
,
and
for
them
,
who
can
help
them
?
But
for
them
that
cry
out
of
their
Wounds
,
't
is
a
sign
they
are
yet
alive
,
and
if
they
use
the
means
in
time
,
doubtless
they
may
be
healed
.
Christ
Jesus
has
bags
of
Mercy
that
was
never
yet
broken
up
or
unsealed
.
Hence
it
is
said
,
he
has
Goodness
laid
up
;
things
reserved
in
Heaven
for
his
.
And
if
he
breaks
up
one
of
these
bags
,
who
can
tell
what
he
can
do
!
Hence
his
Love
is
said
to
be
such
as
passeth
Knowledge
,
and
that
his
Riches
are
unsearchable
.
He
has
,
no
body
knows
what
,
for
no
body
knows
who
!
He
has
by
him
in
store
for
such
as
seem
in
the
view
of
all
men
,
to
be
gone
beyond
recovery
.
For
this
the
Text
is
plain
:
What
Man
or
Angel
could
have
thought
that
the
Jerusalem-sinners
had
been
yet
on
this
side
of
an
impossibility
of
enjoying
Life
and
Mercy
?
Hadst
thou
seen
their
actions
,
and
what
horrible
things
they
did
to
the
Son
of
God
:
Yea
,
how
stoutly
they
backed
what
they
did
,
with
resolves
and
endeavours
to
persevere
,
when
they
had
killed
his
Person
,
against
his
Name
and
Doctrine
:
And
that
there
was
not
found
among
them
all
that
while
,
as
we
read
of
,
the
least
remorse
or
regret
for
these
their
doings
:
Couldst
thou
have
imagined
that
Mercy
would
ever
have
took
hold
of
them
,
at
least
so
soon
!
Nay
,
that
they
should
,
of
all
the
World
,
be
counted
those
Only
meet
to
have
it
offered
to
them
in
the
very
first
place
!
For
so
my
Text
commands
,
saying
,
Preach
Repentance
and
Remission
of
Sin
among
all
Nations
,
Beginning
at
Jerusalem
.
I
tell
you
the
thing
is
a
Wonder
,
and
must
for
ever
stand
for
a
Wonder
among
the
Sons
of
Men
.
It
stands
also
for
an
everlasting
Invitation
and
Allurement
to
the
biggest
Sinners
to
come
to
Christ
for
Mercy
.
Now
〈◇〉
since
,
in
the
Opinion
of
all
Men
,
the
Revolter
is
such
a
one
;
if
he
has
,
as
I
said
before
,
any
Life
in
him
,
let
him
take
incouragement
to
come
again
,
that
he
may
live
by
Christ
.
Eleventhly
,
Would
Jesus
Christ
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
?
Then
let
God's
Ministers
tell
them
so
.
There
is
an
Incidence
in
us
,
I
know
not
how
it
doth
come
about
,
when
we
are
Converted
,
to
contemn
them
that
are
left
behind
.
Poor
fools
as
we
are
,
we
forget
that
we
our selves
were
so
,
Tit
.
3.2
,
3.
But
would
it
not
become
us
bet●●●
▪
since
we
have
tasted
that
the
Lord
is
gracious
,
to
carry
it
towards
them
so
,
that
we
may
give
them
Convincing
ground
to
believe
,
that
we
have
found
that
Mercy
which
also
sets
open
the
Door
for
them
to
come
and
partake
with
us
.
Ministers
,
I
say
,
should
do
thus
,
both
by
their
Doctrine
,
and
in
all
other
respects
.
Austerity
doth
not
become
us
,
neither
in
Doctrine
nor
in
Conversation
:
We
our selves
live
by
Grace
;
Let
us
give
as
we
receive
,
and
labour
to
perswade
our
fellow-sinners
which
God
has
left
behind
us
,
to
follow
after
,
that
they
may
partake
with
us
of
Grace
.
We
are
saved
by
Grace
,
let
us
live
like
them
that
are
gracious
.
Let
all
our
things
(
to
the
World
)
be
done
in
Charity
towards
them
,
Pity
them
,
Pray
for
them
,
be
familiar
with
them
for
their
good
.
Let
us
lay
aside
our
foolish
,
worldly
,
carnal
grandure
;
Let
us
not
walk
the
Streets
,
and
have
such
behaviours
as
signifie
we
are
scarce
for
touching
of
the
poor
ones
that
are
left
behind
,
no
not
with
a
pair
of
Tongs
.
It
becomes
not
Ministers
thus
to
do
.
Remember
your
Lord
,
he
was
familiar
with
Publicans
and
Sinners
to
a
Proverb
.
Behold
a
gluttonous
man
,
and
a
Wine-bibber
,
a
friend
of
Publicans
and
Sinners
,
Matt
.
11.19
.
The
first
part
,
concerning
his
gluttonous
eating
and
drinking
,
to
be
sure
was
an
horrible
slander
;
but
for
the
other
,
nothing
was
ever
spoke
truer
of
him
by
the
World
.
Now
,
why
should
we
lay
hands
cross
on
this
Text
,
that
is
,
choose
good
Victuals
,
and
love
the
sweet
Wine
better
than
the
Salvation
of
the
poor
Publican
?
Why
not
familiar
with
sinners
,
provided
we
hate
their
spots
and
Blemishes
,
and
seek
that
they
may
be
healed
of
them
?
Why
not
fellowly
with
our
Carnal
Neighbours
?
If
we
do
take
occasion
to
do
so
,
that
we
may
drop
,
and
be
yet
distilling
some
good
Doctrine
upon
their
Souls
?
Why
not
go
to
the
poor
Man's
House
,
and
give
him
a
Penny
,
and
a
Scripture
to
think
upon
?
Why
not
send
for
the
Poor
to
fetch
away
,
at
least
,
the
Fragments
of
thy
Table
,
that
the
Bowels
of
thy
fellow-sinner
may
be
refresht
as
well
as
thine
?
Ministers
should
be
Exemplary
:
But
I
am
an
inferiour
Man
,
and
must
take
heed
of
too
much
medling
.
But
might
I
,
I
would
meddle
with
them
,
with
their
Wives
,
and
with
their
Children
too
.
I
mean
not
this
of
all
,
but
of
them
that
deserve
it
,
though
I
may
not
name
them
.
But
,
I
say
,
let
Ministers
follow
the
steps
of
their
blessed
Lord
,
who
by
Word
and
Deeds
shewed
his
Love
to
the
Salvation
of
the
World
,
in
such
a
carriage
as
declared
him
to
prefer
their
Salvation
before
his
own
private
Concern
.
For
we
are
commanded
to
follow
his
steps
,
who
did
no
sin
,
neither
was
guile
found
in
his
mouth
.
And
as
I
have
said
concerning
Ministers
,
so
I
say
to
all
the
Brethren
,
carry
it
so
,
that
all
the
World
may
●ee
,
that
indeed
you
are
the
Sons
of
Love
.
Love
your
Saviour
;
Yea
,
shew
one
to
another
that
you
love
him
,
not
only
by
a
seeming
love
of
Affection
,
but
with
the
love
of
Duty
.
Practical
Love
is
best
.
Many
love
Christ
with
nothing
but
the
lick
of
the
Tongue
.
Alas
!
Christ
Jesus
the
Lord
,
must
not
be
put
off
thus
:
He
that
hath
my
Commandments
,
and
keepeth
them
,
saith
he
,
he
it
is
that
loveth
me
,
Joh
.
14.21
.
Practical
Love
,
which
stands
in
Self-denial
,
in
Charity
to
my
Neighbour
,
and
a
patient
enduring
of
Affliction
for
his
Name
:
This
is
counted
Love
.
Right
Love
to
Christ
,
is
that
which
carries
in
it
a
provoking
Argument
to
others
of
the
Brethren
,
Heb
.
10.24
.
Should
a
Man
ask
me
how
he
should
know
that
he
loveth
the
Children
of
God
?
The
best
answer
I
could
give
him
,
would
be
in
the
Words
of
the
Apostle
John
.
By
this
,
saith
he
,
we
know
we
love
the
Children
of
God
,
when
we
love
God
,
and
keep
his
Commandments
,
1
Joh
.
5.2
.
Love
to
God
and
Christ
,
is
then
shewn
,
when
we
are
tender
of
his
Name
;
and
then
we
shew
our selves
tender
of
his
Name
,
when
we
are
afraid
to
break
any
the
least
of
his
Commandments
.
And
when
we
are
here
,
then
do
we
shew
our
love
to
our
Brother
also
.
Now
we
have
Obligation
sufficient
thus
to
do
,
for
that
our
Lord
loved
us
,
and
gave
himself
for
us
,
to
deliver
us
from
Death
,
that
we
might
live
through
him
.
The
World
,
when
they
hear
the
Doctrine
that
I
have
asserted
and
handled
in
this
little
Book
,
to
wit
,
That
Jesus
Christ
would
have
Mercy
offered
in
the
first
place
to
the
biggest
Sinners
;
will
be
apt
,
because
themselves
are
Unbelievers
,
to
think
that
this
is
a
Doctrine
that
leads
to
Loosness
,
and
that
gives
liberty
to
the
Flesh
;
but
if
you
that
Believe
,
love
your
Brethren
,
and
your
Neighbours
truly
,
and
as
you
should
,
you
will
put
to
silence
the
ignorance
of
such
foolish
Men
,
and
stop
their
mouths
from
speaking
Evil
of
you
.
And
,
I
say
,
let
the
love
of
Christ
constrain
us
to
this
.
Who
deserveth
our
Heart
,
our
Mouth
,
our
Life
,
our
Goods
,
so
much
as
Jesus
Christ
,
who
has
bought
us
to
himself
by
his
Blood
,
to
this
very
end
,
that
we
should
be
a
peculiar
People
,
zealous
of
good
Works
?
There
is
nothing
more
seemly
in
the
world
,
than
to
see
a
Christian
walk
as
becomes
the
Gospel
;
nor
any
thing
more
unbecoming
a
Reasonable
Creature
,
than
to
hear
a
man
say
,
I
believe
in
Christ
,
and
yet
see
in
his
Life
,
Debauchery
and
Profaneness
.
Might
I
,
such
men
should
be
counted
the
basest
of
men
;
such
men
should
be
counted
by
all
,
unworthy
of
the
Name
of
Christian
,
and
should
be
shunned
by
every
good
man
,
as
such
who
are
the
very
Plague
of
Profession
.
For
so
it
is
written
,
We
should
carry
it
towards
them
.
Whoso
has
a
Form
of
Godliness
,
and
deny
the
power
thereof
,
from
such
we
must
turn
away
.
It
has
oft-times
come
into
my
mind
,
to
ask
,
by
what
means
it
is
,
That
the
Gospel
Profession
should
be
so
Taunted
with
Loose
and
Carnal
Gospellers
?
And
I
could
never
arrive
to
better
Satisfaction
in
the
matter
,
than
this
,
Such
men
are
made
Professors
by
the
Devil
,
and
so
by
him
put
among
the
rest
of
the
Godly
.
A
certain
Man
had
a
fruitless
Figg-Tree
planted
in
his
Vineyard
;
but
by
who
was
it
planted
there
?
Even
by
him
that
sowed
the
Tares
,
his
own
Children
,
among
the
Wheat
,
Luke
13.6
.
Matt
.
13.37
,
3●
,
39
,
40.
And
that
was
the
Devil
.
But
why
doth
the
Devil
do
thus
?
Not
of
love
to
them
,
but
to
make
of
them
Offences
and
Stumbling
blocks
to
others
.
For
he
knows
that
a
loose
Professor
in
the
Church
,
does
more
mischief
to
Religion
,
than
ten
can
do
to
it
that
are
in
the
World
.
Was
it
not
,
think
you
,
the
Devil
that
stirred
up
the
Damosel
that
you
read
of
in
Acts
16.
to
cry
out
,
These
are
the
Servants
of
the
Most
high
God
,
that
shew
unto
us
the
way
of
Salvation
?
Yes
it
was
,
as
is
evident
,
For
Paul
was
grieved
to
hear
it
.
But
why
did
the
Devil
stir
up
her
to
cry
so
?
But
because
that
was
the
way
to
blemish
the
Gospel
,
and
to
make
the
World
think
that
it
came
from
the
same
hand
as
did
her
Sooth-saying
and
Witchery
,
Ver
.
16
,
17
,
18.
Holiness
,
O
Lord
,
becomes
thy
House
for
ever
.
Let
therefore
,
whoever
they
be
that
profess
the
Name
of
Christ
,
take
heed
that
they
Scandal
not
that
Profession
which
they
make
of
him
,
since
he
has
so
graciously
offered
us
,
as
we
are
Sinners
of
the
biggest
size
,
in
the
first
place
,
his
Grace
to
Gave
us
FINIS
.