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…

And so much for the first, namely, what goodness and bounty is: and how God is truly good, and he only so. But this attribute of his, and the effects of it, he exerciseth towards all our fellow creatures, and did to Adam in Paradise. But ⟨p. 8⟩now to us ward (as the Apostle speaks) namely the sons of men, now fallen, he extendeth and manifests a further riches, namely, of patience and long-suffering, which the devils partake not of, the good Angels and other creatures: that sinned not, are uncapable of. For as Christ says, Luke 6. 35.¹ In what he bestows on us, he is kind to such, as are evil and unthankful. Mercy is more than goodness, for mercy always doth respect misery: and because all the creatures are subject to a misery, Rom. 8. 20, 21, 22. of bondage and vanity, therefore his tender mercies are over all his works. But yet patience is a further thing than mercy, (as mercy is than goodness) being exercised, not towards miserable creatures only, but towards sinners, and includes in it more three things further towards them.

And so much for the first, namely, what goodnesse and bounty is: and how God is truely good, and he onely so. But this attribute of his, and the effects of it, he exerciseth towards all our fellow creatures, and did to Adam in Paradise. But ⟨p. 8⟩now to us ward (as the Apostle speaks) namely the sons of men, now fallen, hee extendeth and manifests a further riches, namely, of patience and long-suffering, which the devills partake not of, the good Angels and other creatures: that sinned not, are uncapable of. For as Christ sayes, Luke 6. 35.¹ In what he bestowes on us, he is kind to such, as are evill and unthankfull. Mercy is more than goodnesse, for mercy alwaies doth respect misery: and because all the creatures are subject to a misery,