Aggravation of sin and sinning against knowledge. Mercy. Delivered in several sermons upon divers…Aggravation of sinne and sinning against knowledge. Mercie. Delivered in severall sermons upon divers…

4. I will expostulate with you, and aggravate your sinfulness, in going on to despise all these by unrepentance, as the Apostle here doth.

4. I will expostulate with you, and aggravate your sinfulnesse, in going on to despise all these by unrepentance, as the Apostle here doth.

First, in that God is said here to be Good, or Bountiful: 2. Patient, or forbearing: 3. Longsuffering, they seem to note out three degrees of his common mercies unto men.

First, in that God is said here to be Good, or Bountifull: 2. Patient, or forbearing: 3. Longsuffering, they seeme to note out three degrees of his common mercies unto men.

First, he is a good, or a bountiful God: for so, as goodness is here used, I exegetically expound it: For though it be true, that goodness and bounty may differ; yet when riches of goodness are said to be communicated, it imports the same, and is all one with Bounty; And such is God. And all those noble and royal qualifications and properties which concur to make one truly good, and bountiful, do meet and abound in him, in all those good things which he doth bestow; and are found truly in none but in him: so that it may be truly said, that there is none good but God, as Christ says of him.

First, he is a good, or a bountifull God: for so, as goodnesse is here used, I exegetically expound it: For though it be true, that goodnesse and bounty may differ; yet when riches of goodnesse are said to be communicated, it imports the same, and is all one with Bounty; And such is God. And all those noble and royall qualifications and properties which concurre to make one truely good, and bountifull, doe meet and abound in him, in all those good things which he doth bestow; and are found truly in none but in him: so that it may be truly said, that there is none good but God, as Christ sayes of him.