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…

Thirdly, there is yet a further thing in his patience, namely, a waiting, and expectation that men would come in,¹ and repent. So Luke 13. 17. These three years have I [come seeking] fruit, but have found none: There was an expectation, a longing, a desire it would bring forth fruit, Oh when shall it once be, says God, Jer. 13. last?

Thirdly, there is yet a further thing in his patience, namely, a waiting, and expectation that men would come in,¹ and repent. So Luke 13. 17. These three yeeres have I [come seeking] fruit, but have found none: There was an expectation, a longing, a desire it would bring forth fruit, Oh when shall it once be, sayes God, Ier. 13. last?

1. 1Luke 13. 17.

In the last place, that other attribute of long suffering, which is the third, is but as a further degree of patience; but patience lengthened out farther, that is, when God hath been thus patient, ⟨p. 10⟩hath forborne and waited for their coming in, and that not for three years, but haply thirty, forty years, and still they turn not; his patience then begins (as we would think) to be (as it were) worn out, and his anger begins to arise, as if he could forbear no longer; (as it was towards that tree, Why cumbereth it the ground? Cut it down) yet he goes on to spare a man another year, and many more years still after that; and endureth with much long suffering (as