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 still God hath made trial of thee, and given thee longer day; and though thou hast broke with him again and again, yet he hath forborne thee again and again, and hath waited this twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years, when thou shouldest come in, and be as good as thy word, and still thou hast failed him. And yet behold and wonder, and stand confounded at the riches of his long suffering, that after so many years expense, and promises broken by thee, expectations failed in him, and many mockeries of him, after all this he is yet willing to accept of the remainder, if thou wouldst spend the rest of the time, left thee in the flesh, according to his will, as the Apostle speaks,¹ 1 Pet. 4. 3. even to lose principal, use, and all, for what is past, and requires but the same composition was propounded the first day; yea and not only so, but with promise to become a debtor unto thee, to bestow ⟨p. 28⟩further riches on thee than ever yet thou sawest, or art able to conceive: yea and all this, when he could have his pennyworths out of thee another way, and lose not one farthing by thee, but by punishing thee in hell, recover all to the utmost.

And still God hath made tryall of thee, and given thee longer day; and though thou hast broke with him againe and againe, yet he hath forborne thee againe and againe, and hath waited this twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, sixty years, when thou shouldest come in, and be as good as thy word, and still thou hast failed him. And yet behold and wonder, and stand confounded at the riches of his long suffering, that after so many yeares expence, and promises broken by thee, expectations failed in him, and many mockeries of him, after all this he is yet willing to accept of the remainder, if thou wouldst spend the rest of the time, left thee in the flesh, according to his will, as the Apostle speaks,¹ 1 Pet. 4. 3. even to lose principall, use, and all, for what is past, and requires but the same composition was propounded the first day; yea and not onely so, but with promise to become a debtor unto thee, to bestow