Two treatises the first of death, on I Cor. 15:26, the second of judgment…

Quest. 2. If thou say that it is not his unkindness, but thy own that feeds thy doubts; I further ask thee, Is he not kind to the unkind? especially when they lament their own unkindness? Thou art not so unkind to him as thou wast in thy unconverted state: and yet he then expressed his Love in thy conversion: He then sought thee when thou wentest astray, and brought thee carefully home into his Fold, and there he hath kept thee ever since: And is he less kind now when thou art returned home? Dost thou not know that all his children have their forwardness, and are guilty of their unkindnesses to him? And yet he doth not therefore ⟨p. 114⟩disown them, and turn them out of his family; but is tender of them in their froward weakness; because they are his own? How dealt he with the peevish Prophet Jonah, that was [exceedingly displeased, and very angry,] that God spared Nineveh lest it should be a dishonour to his Prophecy; in so much that he wished that he might die and not live: and after repined at the withering of his gourd, and the scorching of the Sun that beat upon him? The Lord doth gently question with him [Dost thou well to be angry?] and after hence convince him that the mercy which he valued to himself, he should not envy to so many, Jonah 4. How dealt he with the Disciples, that fell a sleep; when they should have watched with Christ in the night of his great agony? He doth not tell them, [You are none of mine, because you could not watch with me one hour;] but tenderly excuseth that which they durst not excuse themselves, [The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak;] When he was on the Cross, though they all forsook him and fled, he was then so far from forsaking them, that he was manifesting to admiration that exceeding love, that never would forsake them. And knowest thou not poor complaining soul, that the kindness of Christ overcometh all the unkindness ⟨p. 115⟩of his children? and that his blood and grace is sufficient to save thee, from greater sins then those that trouble thee? If thou hadst no sin, what use hadst thou of a Saviour? Will thy Physician therefore cast thee off, because thou art sick?

Quest. 2. If thou say that it is not his unkindness, but thy own that feeds thy doubts; I further ask thee, Is he not kind to the unkind? especially when they lament their own unkindness? Thou art not so unkind to him as thou wast in thy unconverted state: and yet he then exprest his Love in thy conversion: He then sought thee when thou wentest astray, and brought thee carefully home into his Fold, and there he hath kept thee ever since: And is he less kind now when thou art returned home? Dost thou not know that all his children have their forwardness, and are guilty of their unkindnesses to him? And yet he doth not therefore