Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

Again, hither tend all those Arguments of God and Christ, to draw souls to themselves. Thus God draws, 1. From his equity, Hear now O house of Israel, ¹is not my way equal? or are not your ways unequal? q. d. I appeal to your very consciences, is this equal, that sinners should go on in sin, and Trespass against him that is so willing to receive and save poor sinners? 2. From our ruin, in case we go on in sin,² Cast away from you all your Transgressions, whereby ye have Transgressed, and make you a new heart, and a new Spirit, for why will ye dye, O house of Israel? 3. From his own dislike and displeasure at our ruin, I have no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth, ³saith the Lord ⟨p. 188⟩God, wherefore turn your souls, and live ye. 4. From his mercy and readiness to pardon sinners,⁴ Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. ⁵5. From the freeness of his love, I will love them freely, and God so loved the world, so fully, so fatherly, so freely, that he gave his only begotten Son, &c. and I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely. 6. From the sweetness of his Name,⁶ The Lord, the Lord, merciful and gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity, Transgression and sin. 7. From the benefits that would follow, O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments, then had thy peace been as a River, and thy righteousness as the waves of the Sea; thy seed also had been as the Sand, and the off-spring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof. 8. From his Oath; As I live, saith the Lord, I desire not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live: O happy creatures (saith Tertullian) for whom God swears! O unbelieving wretches, if we will not trust God swearing!