of these examples especially of our late King and this troublesome time will move some teares out of thine heart if thou wilt pray for Gods Spirit accordingly For who art thou think alwaies with thy selfe that God should spare thee more then them whose examples thou hast heard What friends hast thou Were not of these Kings Prophets Apostles learned and come of holy stocks I deceive my selfe think thou with thy selfe if I believe that God being the same God that he was will spare me whose wickednesse is no lesse but much more then some of theirs He hateth sinne now as much as ever he did The longer he spareth the greater vengeance will fall the deeper he draweth his Bow the sorer will his shaft pierce But if yet thy heart be so hardned that all this will not move thee then surely art thou in a very evill estate and remedy now I know none What say I none Know I none Yes there is one which is suresby as they say to serve if any thing will serve You look to know what this is forsooth the Passion and Death of Jesus Christ You know the cause why Christ became man and suffered as he suffered was the sinnes of his People that he might save them from the same Consider the greatnesse of the sore I mean sinne by the greatnesse of the Chyrurgion and the salve Who was the Chyrurgion no Angel no saint no Arch-angel no power no creature in heaven nor earth but only he by whom all things were made all things are ruled also even Gods own Deareling and only beloved sonne becoming man Oh what a great thing is this that could not be done by the Angells Archangels Potentates powers or all the creatures of God without his own sonne who of necessity must come down from heaven to take our nature and become man Here have ye the Chyrurgion great was the cure that this mighty Lord took in hand Now what was the salve certainly of an unestimable value and of many compositions I cannot recite all but rather must leave it to your hearty considerations Thirty three yeares was he curing our sore he sought it earnestly by fasting watching praying c. The same night that he was betrayed I read how busy he was about a plaister in the Garden when he lying flat on the ground praying with teares and that of blood not a few but so many as did flow down on the ground againe crying on this sort Father saith he if it be possible let this cup depart from me That is if it be possible that else the sinnes of man kind can be taken away grant that it may be so Thou heardest Moses crying for the Idolaters thou heardest Lot for the Zoarites Samuel David and many other for the Israelites And deare Father I onely am thine own Sonne as thou hast said in whom thou art well pleased wilt thou not heare me I have by the space of thirty three years done alwaies thy will I have so humbled my selfe that I would become an abject amongst men to obay thee Therefore deere Father if it be possible grant my request save man-kind now without any farther labour salves or plaisters But yet saith he not as I will but as thou wilt But Sir what heard he Though he sweat blood and water in making his plaister for our sore of sinne yet it framed not Twice he cryed without comfort yea though to comfort him God sent an Angel we know that yet this plaister was not allowed for sufficient untill hereunto Christ Jesus was betrayed forsaken of all his Disciples forsworne of his dearely beloved bound like a Theefe belyed on buffeted whipped scourged crowned with thornes crucified racked nailed hanged up be tween two theeves cursed and railed upon mocked in misery and had given up the ghost then bowed downe the head of Christ then God the Father which is the head of Christ allowed the plaister to be sufficient and good for the healing of our sore which is sinne Now would God abide our breath because the stinke damnation guiltinesse was taken away by the sweet savour of the breath of this Lambe thus offered once for all So that here dearely beloved we as in a glasse may see to the bruising of our blockish hard hearts Gods great judgement and anger against sinne The Lord of Lords the King of Kings the brightnesse of Gods glory the Sonne of God the dearling of his Father in whom he is well pleased hangeth betweene two Theeves crying for thee and mee and for us all My God my God why hast thou forsaken mee Oh hard hearts that we have who delight in sinne Look on this see the very heart of Christ pierced with a fpeare wherein thou maist see and read Gods anger for sinne Woe to thy hard heart that pierced it And thus much for the first part of Repentance I meane for the meanes of working contrition First use Prayer then look on Gods Law thirdly see his curse fourthly set examples of his anger before thee and last of all set before thee the precious death of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ From this and prayer cease not till thou feele some hearty sorrow for thy sin The which when thou feelest then labour for the other part that is faith in this sort As first in contrition I willed thee not to trust to thy free will for the attaining of it so doe I will thee in this Faith is so farre from the reach of mans free-will that to reason it is plain foolishnesse Therefore thou must first goe to God whose gift it is thou must I say get thee to the Father of mercy whose worke it is that as he hath brought thee downe by Contrition and humbled thee so he would give thee Faith raise thee up and exalt thee In this manner therefore with the Apostles and the poore man in the Gospel that cryed Lord increase our Faith Lord help my unbeleefe pray thou and say O mercifull and deare Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ in whom as thou art well pleased so hast thou commanded us to hear him for as much as he often biddeth us to aske of thee and thereto promiseth that thou will heare us and grant us that which in his name we shall aske of thee loe gracious Father I am bold to begge of thy mercy through thy Sonne Jesus Christ one sparkle of true and certaine perswasion of thy goodnesse and love towards mee in Christ where through I being assured of the Pardon of all my sinnes by the mercies of Christ thy Sonne may be thankefull to thee love thee and serve thee in holinesse and righteousnesse all the daies of my life On this sort I say or otherwise as God shall move thee pray thou first of all and look for thy request at Gods hand without any doubting though forthwith thou feelest not the same for oftentimes we have things of God given us long before we feele them as we would
that giveth the more to his enemies will he not give the lesse to his friends God hath given his own Son then which nothing is greater even to us his enemies and we now being become his friends will he deny us faith and pardon of our sinnes which though they be great yet in comparison they are nothing at all to the price given Christ Jesus would give his own selfe for us when we willed it not and will he now deny us Faith if we will it This will is his earnest that he hath given us truly to look indeed for the thing willed And look thou for it indeed for as he hath given thee to will so will he give thee to doe Jesus Christ gave his life for our evils and by his death he delivered us O then in that he liveth now and cannot dye will he forsake us his heart blood was not too deare for us when we asked it not what can then be now too deare for us asking it Is he a changeling Is he mutable as a man is Can he repent him of his gifts Did he not foresee our falls Paid not he therefore the price Because he saw we should fall sore therefore would he suffer sore Yea if his suffering had not been enough he would yet once more come again God the Father I may say if the death of his sonne incarnate would not serve would himselfe and the Holy Ghost also become incarnate and dye for us This Death of Christ therefore look on as the very pledge of Gods love towards thee whosoever thou art how deepe soever thou hast sinned See Gods hands are nailed they cannot strike thee his feet also he cannot run from thee his armes are wide open to embrace thee his head hangs down to kisse thee his very heart is open so that therein looke nay even see and thou shalt see nothing therein but love love love love to thee hide thee there lay thy head there with the Evangelist This is the clift of the Rock wherein Elias stood This is for all aking heads a pillow of downe Anoint thy head with this oile let this oyntment embalme thy head and wash thy face Tarry thou on this firme rock and I le warrant thee Say with Paul What can separate me from the love of God can death can poverty can sicknesse hunger or any misery perswade thee now that God loveth thee not Nay nothing can seperate thee from the love wherewith God hath loved thee in Christ Jesus whom he loveth he loveth to the end So that now where abundance of sin hath been in thee the more is the abundance of grace But to what end Certainly that as sinne hath reigned to death as thou seest to the killing of Gods Sonne so now Grace must raigne to life to the honouring of Gods Sonne who is now alive and cannot dye any more So that they which by faith feele this cannot any more dye to God but to sinne whereto they are dead and buried with Christ As Christ therefore liveth so doe they and that to God to righteousnesse and holinesse The life which they live is In fide Filii Dei in the faith of the Sonne of God whereby you see that now I am slipt into that which I made the third part of repentance namely newnesse of life which I could not so have done if that it were a part of it selfe indeed it is an effect or fruit of the second part that is of faith or trust in Gods mercy For he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded sinne to be such a thing that is the cause of all misery and of it selfe so greatly angreth God that in Heaven nor in earth nothing could appease his wrath save onely the death and precious bloodshedding of the Sonne of God in whom is all the delight and pleasure of the Father he I say that is perswaded thus of his sinne the same cannot but in heart abhorre and quake to doe or say yea to think any thing willingly which Gods Law teacheth him to be sinne Again he that beleeveth that is is certainly perswaded Gods love to be so much towards him that where through sinne he was lost and made a firebrand of Hell the eternall Father of mercy which is the omni-sufficient God and needeth nothing in us or of any thing that we can doe to deliver us out of Hell and to bring us into Heaven did send even his own most deare Sonne out of his bosome out of heaven into hell as a man would say to bring us as I said from thence into his own bosome and mercy we being his very enemies he I say that is thus perswaded of Gods love towards him and of the price of his redemption by the deare blood of the Lamb immaculate Jesus Christ the same man cannot but love God againe and of love doe that and heartily desire to doe better the which might please God Think you that such a one knowing these things by Faith will willingly insist and wallow in his wilfull lusts pleasures and fantasies Will such a one as knoweth by Faith Christ Jesus to have given his blood to wash him from his sinnes play the Sow to nuzle in his puddle of filthy sinne and vice againe Nay rather then he will be defiled againe by his wilfull sinning he will wash often the feet of his affections watching over the vice still sticking in him which as a spring continually sendeth out poyson enough to drowne and defile him if the sweet water of Christs passion in Gods sight did not wash it and his blood satisfy the rigour of Gods justice due for the same This blood of Christ shed for our sinnes is so deare in the sight of him that beleeveth that he will abhorre in his heart to stamp it and tread it under his feet He knoweth now by his beleefe that it is too much that hitherto he hath set too little by it and is ashamed thereof Therefore for the residue of his life he purposeth to take better heed to himselfe then before he did Because he seeth by his faith the grievousnesse of Gods anger the foulenesse of sin the greatnesse of Gods mercy and of Christs love towards him he will now be heedy to pray unto God to give him his grace accordingly that as with his eyes and tongue hands and feet c. he hath displeased God doing his own will even so now with the same eyes tongue c. he may displease his own selfe and doe Gods will Willingly will he not doe that which might renew the death of the sonne of God He knoweth he hath too much sinne unwillingly in him so that thereto he will not adde willing offences This willing and witting offending sinning whosoever doth flatter himselfe therein doth evidently demonstrate and shew that he never yet indeed tasted of Christ truly He was never truely perswaded or beleeved how foule a thing sinne is how grievous a thing Gods anger
will endeavour my best now to helpe you by Gods grace But first because we cannot well tell what repentance is through ignorance and for lack of knowledge and false teaching I will to begin withall shew what Repentance is Repentance is no English word but we borrow it of the Latinists to whom it is an after thinking in English in Greeke a being wise afterwards in Hebrew a conversion or turning the which conversion or turning cannot be true and hearty unto God especially without some good hope or trust of pardon for that which is already done and past is therefore after hearty sorrow an earnest purpose to amend and to turne to God with a trust of pardon This definition may be divided into three parts 1. First a sorrowing for our sinnes 2. Secondly a trust of pardon which otherwise may be called a perswasion of God's mercy by the merits of Christ for the forgivenesse of our sinnes 3. And thirdly a purpose to amend or a conversion to a new life The which third or last part cannot be called so properly a part as an effect of that repentance we now speake of as towards the end ye shall see by Gods grace But yet lest such as seeke for occasion to speake evill should have any occasion if they tarry not out the end of this sermon I therefore divide repentance into the three foresaid parts 1. Of sorrowing for our sinne 2. Of good hope or trust of pardon 3. Of a new life Thus you may see what the thing is a sorrowing for sinne a purpose to amend with a good hope or trust of pardon This penance not only differeth from that which men commonly take to be penance in saying and going over our enjoyned Ladies Psalters seaven penitentiall Psalmes superstitious Fastings Pilgrimages Almes-deeds and such like things but also from that which the more learned have declared to consist of three parts namely contrition confession and satisfaction Contrition they call a just and a full sorrow for their sinne For this word just and full is one of the differences between Contrition and Attrition Confession they call a numbering of all their sinnes in the eare of their ghostly Father for as say they a judge cannot absolve without knowledge of the cause or matter so cannot the Priest or ghostly Father absolve from other sinnes then those which he doth heare Satisfaction they call amends making unto God for their sinnes by their undue works Opera indebita workes more then they need to doe as they terme them This is their penance which they Preach Write and allow But how true this stuffe is how it agreeth with Gods word how it is to be allowed taught Preached written let us a little consider If a man repent not untill he have a just and full sorrowing for his sinnes dearly beloved when shall he repent For in as much as hell fire and the punishment of the Divels is a just punishment for sinne In as much as in all sinne there is a contempt of God which is all goodnesse and therefore there is a desert of all ilnesse alas who can beare or feele this just sorrow this full sorrow for our sinnes this their contrition which they doe so discerne from their attrition shall not man by this doctrine rather despaire then come to repentance If a man repent not untill he have made confession of all his sinns in the eare of his ghostly Father if a man cannot have absolution of his sins untill his sins be told by tale and number in the Priests eare in that as David saith none can understand much lesse then utter all his sins Delicta quis intelligit Who can understand his sins In that David complaineth of himselfe elsewhere how that his sinnes have overflowed his head and as a heavy burthen doe oppresse him alas shall not a man by this doctrines be utterly driven from repentance Though they have gone about something to make a plaister for their sores of confession or attrition to asswage this stuffe bidding a man to hope well of his contrition though it be not so full as is required and of his confession though he have not numbred all his sinnes if so be that he doe so much as in him lieth dearely beloved in that there is none but that herein he is guilty for who doth as much as he may think yee that this plaister is not like salt to sore eyes Yes undoubtedly alas when they have done all they can for the appeasing of consciences in these poynts this is the summe that we yet should hope well but yet so hope that we must stand in a mammering and doubting whether our sins be forgiven For to beleeve remissionem peccatorum that is to be certaine of forgivenesse of sinnes as our Creed teacheth us they count it a presumption O abomination and that not onely therein but in all their penance as they paint it As concerning satisfaction by their Opera indebita undue workes that is by such works as they need not to doe but of their own voluntarinesse and willingnesse wilfulnesse in deed who seeth not monstrous abomination blasphemy and even open fighting against God For if satisfaction can be done by man then Christ died in vaine for him that so satisfieth and so reigneth he in vaine so is he a Bishop and a Priest in vaine Gods law requireth love to God with all our heart soule power might and strength so that there is nothing can be done to God-ward which is not contained in this commandement nothing can be done over and above this Again Christ requireth to man-ward that we should love one another as he loved us And think you beloved that we can doe any thing to our Neighbourward which is not herein comprized Yea let them tell me when they do any thing so in the love of God and their Neighbour but that they had need to cry Remitte nobis debita nostra forgive us our sinnes So farre are wee off from satisfying Doth not Christ say When you have done all things that I have commanded you say that ye be but unprofitable servants Put nothing to my word saith God Yes workes of supererogation yea superabomination say they Whatsoever things are true saith the Apostle Saint Paule Whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things pertaine to love whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue if there be any praise have you them in your minde and doe them and the God of peace shall be with you Beloved this lesson well regarded would pull us from Popish satisfactory Works which doe deface Christs treasures and satisfaction In heaven and in earth was there none found that could satisfie God's anger for our sinnes or open heaven for man but onely the Son of God Jesus Christ the Lion of the Tribe of Juda who by his bloud hath wrought the work of
doe Now unto this prayer use thou these means following After prayer for Faith which I would should be first Secondly because the same springeth out of the hearing not of Masse Mattins Canons Councells Doctors Decrees but out of the hearing of Gods word get Gods word but not that part which serveth specially to Contrition that is the Law but the other part which serveth specially to consolation and certain perswasions of Gods love towards thee that is the Gospell or publication of Gods mercy in Christ I mean the free promises But here thou must know that there are two kindes of promises one which is properly of the Law another of the Gospel In the promises of the Law we may indeed behold Gods mercy but so that it hangeth upon the condition of our worthinesse as if thou love the Lord withall thy heart c. thou shalt find mercy This kind of promise though it declare unto us Gods love which promiseth where he needeth not yet unto him that feeleth not Christ which is the end of the Law they are so farre from comforting that utterly with the Law they bring man to great despaire so greatly we are corrupt for none so loveth God as he ought to doe From these therefore get thee to the other promises of the Gospel in which we may see such plenty and franke liberality of Gods goodnesse that we cannot but be much comforted though we have very deeply sinned For these promises of the Gospel doe not hang on the condition of our worthinesse as the promises of the Law doe but they depend and hang on Gods truth that as God is true so they cannot but be performed to all them which lay hold on them by Faith I had almost said which cast them not away by unbeliefe Marke in them therefore two things namely that as well they are free promises without any condition of our worthinesse as also that they are universally offered to all I say which are not so stubborne as to keep still their hands whereby they should receive this almes in their bosomes by unbeliefe As concerning Infants and children you know I now speak not but concerning such as be of years of discretion and under the Gospel And now you look that I should give you a tast of these promises which are both free and universall except none but such as except themselves Well you shall have one or two for a say In the 3d of John saith our Saviour So God the Father loved the World that he would give his Deareling his one only sonne that all that believe in him should not perish but have everlasting life Loe Sir he saith not that some might have life but all saith he And what all all that love him with all their hearts all that have lived a good life Nay all that beleeve in him Although thou hast lived a most wicked and horrible life if now thou believe in him thou shalt bee saved Is not this sweet grace Againe saith Christ Come unto me all ye that labour and are laden and I will refresh you Let us a little look on this letter Come unto mee Who shall come Lords Priests Holy men Monkes Friars yea Coblers Tinkers Whores Theeves Murtherers also if they lament their sinnes Come unto mee saith he all ye that labour and are laden that is which are afraid and weary of your sinnes And what wilt thou doe Lord And I shall refresh you saith he Oh what a thing is this And I will refresh you Wot you who spake this He that never told lie He is the truth there was never guile found in his mouth and now will he be untrue to thee good brother which art sorry for thy greivous sinnes No forsooth heaven and earth shall passe and perish but his word shall never faile Saint Paul saith God would have all men saved Loe he excepteth none And to Titus the grace of God bringeth salvation to all men as from Adam all have received sinne to damnation so by Christ all have grace offered to Salvation if they reject not the same I speak not now of Infants I say nor need I enter into the matter of Predestination In preaching of repentance I would gather where I could with Christ As surely as I live saith God ' I will not the death of a sinner art thou a sinner Yea Loe God sweareth he will not thy death How canst thou now perish Consider with thy selfe what profit thou shouldest have to believe this to be true to others if not to thy selfe also Sathan doth so Rather consider with Peter that the promise of Salvation pertaineth not only to them which are nigh or to such as are falne a little but also to all to whom the Lord hath called be they never so farre off Loe nowby me the Lord calleth thee thou Man thou Woman that art very farre off The promise therefore pertaineth to thee needs must thou be saved except thou with Satan say God is false and if thou doe so God is faithfull and cannot deny himselfe as thou shalt feele by his plagues in hell for so dishonouring God to think that he is not true Will he be found false now The matter hangeth not on thy worthinesse but it hangeth on God's truth Clap hold on it and I warrant thee Christ is the propitiation for our sinnes yea for the sins of the whole World of Jew and Gentiles believe this Man I know thou believest it say therefore in thy heart still Domine adauge mihi fidem Lord encrease my faith Lord help my unbeleefe Blessed are they which see not by reason this but yet believe Beloved we must hope above hope as Abraham did And thus much for a tast of the promises which are every where not only in the new Testament but also in the Old Read the last end of Leviticus 26. The Prophet Isaiah 30. Where he saith God tarryeth looking for thee to shew thee mercy also the 40 and so forth to the 60. Read also 2 Kings 24. Ps. 33. Joel 2. c. Howbeit if all this will not serve and if yet thou feelest no faith no certaine perswasion of Gods love then prepare thy selfe unto Prayer and diligent considering of the free and universall promises of the Gospel Thirdly set before thee those blessings which heretofore and at this present God hath given thee Consider how he hath made thee a Man or a Woman which might have made thee a Toade or a Dogge And why did he this Verily because he loved thee and thinkest thou if he loved thee when thou wast not to make thee such a one as he most graciously hath and will he not now love thee being his handy work Doth he hate any thing that he made Is there unablenesse with him Doth he love for a day and so farewell No beloved God loveth to the end his mercy endureth for ever Say therefore with Job Operi manum tuarum porrige dextram that is to the work
Gods anger yet at the length he found much mercy The City of Ninivie also found favour with God as did many other which for brevity I will omit and will bring forth one or two out of the New Testament that we may see God to be the same God in the New Testament that he was in the Old I might tell you of many if I should speake of the Lunatick such as were possessed with Divels Lame Blind dumb deaf lepers c. but time will not suffer me therefore one or two shall serve Mary Magdalen had seven Divels but yet they were cast out of her and of all others she was the first that Christ appeared unto after his resurrection Thomas would not believe Christs resurrection though many told him which had seen and felt him by reason whereof a man might have thought that his sinnes would have cast him away Except I should see and feele saith he I will not believe Ah wilfull Thomas I will not saith he but Christ appeared unto him and would not loose him neither will he thee beloved if with Thomas thou wilt keepe company with the Disciples as Thomas did Peters fall was ugly he accursed himselfe if ever he knew Christ and that for feare of a Maiden and lyed not once but three severall times and that in the hearing of Christ his Master but yet the third time Christ looked back and cast on him his eye of grace so that he went out and wept bitterly And after Christs resurrection not only did the Angels will the Woman to tell Peter that Christ was risen but Christ himselfe appeared unto him such a good Lord is he The Theefe hanging on the Crosse said thus Lord when thou comest into thy Kingdome remember mee And what answer had he This day saith Christ thou shalt be with me in Paradise What a comfort is this in that he is now the same Christ to thee and mee and to us all if we will runne unto him for he is the same Christ to day and to morrow untill he come to judgement Then indeed he will be inexorable but now is he more ready to give then we to aske If thou cry he heareth thee even before thou cry Crie therefore behold man he is not partiall Call saith he and I will he are thee aske and thou shalt have seeke and thou shalt finde though not at the first yet at the length If he tarry a while it is but to try thee Nam veniens veniet non tardabit He is coming and will not be long Thus have you foure meanes which you must use to the attaining of faith or certain perswasion of Gods mercy towards you which is the second part of repentance namely prayer the free and universall promises of Gods graces the recordation of the benefits of God past and present the examples of Gods mercy Which although they might suffice yet will I put one more to them which only of it selfe is full sufficient I meane the death of the Sonne of God Jesus Christ which if thou set before the eyes of thy mind it will confirme thy assurance for it is the great Seale of England as they say yea of all the World for the confirmation of all Patents and perpetuities of the everlasting life whereunto we are all called If I thought these which I have before recited were not sufficient to confirme your faith of Gods love towards such as doe repent I would tarry longer herein But because I have been both long and also I trust you have some exercise of conscience in this daily or else you are to blame I will but touch and goe consider with your selves what we are misers wretches and enemies to God Consider what God is even he which hath all power majesty might glory riches c. perfectly of himselfe and needeth nothing but hath all things Consider what Christ is concerning his God-head coequall with his Father even he by whom all things were made he I say by whom all things are ruled and governed Concerning his Man-hood the onely Deareling of his Father in whom is all his joy Now Syr what a love is this that this God which needeth nothing would give wholly his own selfe to thee his enemy wreaking his wrath upon himselfe in this his sonne as a man may say to spare thee to save thee to win thee to bye thee to have thee to enjoy thee for ever Because thy sinne hath seperated thee from him to the end thou mightest come eftsoones into his company againe and therein remaine he himselfe became as a man would say a sinner or rather sinne it selfe even a malediction or curse that wee sinners we accursed by our sinne might by his oblation or suffering for our sinnes by his curse be delivered from sinne and from malediction For by sinne he destroyed sinne killing Death Sathan and sinne by their own weapons and that for thee and mee man if we cast it not away by unbeliefe Oh wonderfull love of God Who ever heard of such a love The Father of Heaven for us his enimies to give hÃs own dearly beloved Sonne Jesus Christ and that not only to be our brother to dwell among us but also to the death of the Crosse for us Oh wonderfull love of Christ to us all that was content and willing to work this deed for us Was there any love like to this love God indeed hath commended his charity and love to us herein that when we were very enemies unto him he would give his own sonne for us That we being men might become as you would say Gods God would become man That we being mortall might become immortall the immortall God would become mortall man That we earthly wretches might be Cittizens of Heaven the Lord of Heaven would become as a man would say earthly That we being accursed might be blessed God would be accursed That we by our father Adam being brought out of Paradise into the puddle of all pain migh be redeemed and brought into Paradise againe God would be our Father and an Adam thereunto That we having nothing might have all things God having all things would have nothing That we being vassailes and slaves to all even to Sathan the Fiend might be Lords of all and of Sathan The Lord of all would become a vassaile and a slave to us all and in danger of Sathan Oh love incomprehensible Who can otherwise think now but if the gracious good Lord disdained not to give his own Sonne his own hearts joy for us his very enemies before we thought to beg any such thing at his hands yea before we were Who I say can think otherwise but that with him he will give us all good things If when we hated him and fled away from him he sent his Sonne to seek us who can think otherwise then that now we loving him and lamenting because we love him no more but that he will for ever love us He