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…

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 Rom. 9. 22.) the vessels of wrath, endures to wonderment, above measure, beyond all expectation, all patience, as it were; this is long suffering.

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 beene thus patient, ⟨p. 10⟩hath forborne and waited for their comming in, and that not for three yeeres, but haply thirty, forty yeeres, and still they turne not; his patience then begins (as we would think) to be (as it were) worne out, and his anger begins to arise, as if he could forbeare no longer; (as it was towards that tree, Why cumbereth it the ground? Cut it downe) yet hee goes on to spare a man another yeere, and many more yeares still after that; and endureth with much long suffering (as Rom. 9. 22.) the vessels of wrath, endures to wonderment, above measure, beyond all expectation, all patience, as it were; this is long suffering.

The second general head is, that there are [riches] of this his goodness, &c. expended on us.