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Take we heed, that we despise not this medicine. The law was so far from drawing out these thorns, that it would drive them in further, and cause them to rankle in the heart, without any hope of ease. It did but exasperate their stings, and give them a deeper continuance of pricking. The mollifying and healing Gospel extracts their venom, and sucks out their poison. Let us not dare then to vilipend this cordial and sovereign medicine.

Take we heed, that we despise not this medicine. The law was so farre from drawing out these thornes, that it would driue them in further, and cause them to rankle in the heart, without any hope of ease. It did but exasperate their stings, and giue them a deeper continuance of pricking. The mollifying and healing Gospell extracts their venome, and sucks out their poyson. Let vs not dare then to vilipend this cordiall and soueraigne medicine.

You perceive that our sins are Thorns; and what is their only remedy. Know now, that if they be not drawn out in this world, they shall be found thorns hereafter; when the owners shall hear Christs sentence, Go ye cursed, &c. for the end of them is to be burned. So I come to the punishment: but I will soon have done with that, which shall never have done with those that must undergo it.

You perceiue that our sinnes are Thornes; and what is their onely remedy. Know now, that if they be not drawne out in this world, they shall be found thornes hereafter; when the owners shall heare Christs sentence, Goe yee cursed, &c. for the end of them is to be burned. So I come to the punishment: but I will soone haue done with that, which shall neuer haue done with those that must vndergoe it.

There is a threefold gradation in the Penalty, Rejection, malediction, combustion. Is rejected, is