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10 Observe that sin will not let Justice sleep, but sends it up continual challenges and defiances: provoking him to draw that sword, which he had rather should •st and rust in the scabbard, than be sheathed in the bowels, or shine with the galls •f his own creatures. But in piety will not let him alone, nor give him over, till is righteousness breaks forth into vengeance. As the prayers of the Saints with kind of prevailing importunity, offer holy and humble violence to his mercy: •at he descends with the flag of truce, in the milk white ornaments of peace; pardo•ng sins, and healing sorrows. If importunate solicitations could move an unjust edge to equity,^q will they not much more move a merciful God to pity? Give him •st till he establish Jerusalem, Esa. 62.7. As the kingdom of heaven requires and re•ites this holy^r violence: so the king of heaven is content to have his hands as •nicled from executing wrath, and his sword locked up by the prayers and tears […] penitents. Let me alone, saith the Lord to Moses, that I may smite them: as if •e groans of his heart did hold Gods hand. So do the sins of the wicked hasten •dgement, and cry to vengeance, Come away, why tarriest thou so long? Thus the •ood of Abel murdered,^s cried for the blood of the murderer. Wickedness is not •oveling, but aspiring: not base, shame-faced and fearful to advance it self; but •elling like Jordan above the banks.^t