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Thou art holy & we unholy, ⟨image 5⟩thou art good, and we nothing but evil, thou art pure, we all together impure, thou art light, and we most dark darkness, how then can there be any conveniency or agreement betwixt us, O what now may we do? Despair? no, for thou art god, & therefore good thou art merciful, and therefore thou forgivest sins, with thee is mercy and propitiation, and therefore thou art worshipped, when Adam had sinned thou gavest him mercy before he desired it, & wilt thou deny us mercy which now desire the same, Adam excused his fault and accused it, but we accuse our selves, and excuse thee, & shall we be sent empty away? Noah found favour when thy fury a bounded and shall we seeking grace be frustrate? Abraham was pulled out of ⟨image 6⟩idolatry when the world was drowned therein, and art thou his god only? Israel in captivity in Egypt was graciously visited and delivered and deer God, the same good lord, shall we always be forgotten? Howe often in the wilderness diddest thou defer, and spar thy plagues, at the request of Moses when the people them selves made no petition to thee. And seeing we not only now make our petitions unto the through thy goodness, but also have a mediator for us now far above Moses, even Jesus Christ: should we I say deer lord, depart ashamed? So soon as David said I have sinned, thou diddest forth with answer to him that he should not dye, thou haddest taken away his sins, And gracious god, even the self same ⟨image 6⟩god, shall not we which now with David gladly confess that we have sinned, shall we I say not hear, by thy good sprite, that our since be pardoned. O grant that with Manasseh we may find favour and mercy remember that thou hast not spared thine own only dear Son Jesus Christ, but given him for us all to dye, for our sins, to rise for our righteousness, to ascend for our possession taking in heaven, and to appear before thee for us for ever, a high priest after the order of Melchizedek that through him we might have free access to come to thy throne, now rather of grace then of Justice, Remember that thou by him hast bidden ask and promised that we should receive, saying ask and ye shall have, seek and ye shall find, knock and it ⟨image 7⟩shall be opened unto you.