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Thus saith the Lord, If Heaven above can be measured, or the Foundation of the Earth searched out beneath, I will also cast away all the seed of Israel, for all that they have done, saith the Lord, Jer. 31. 37.

Thus saith the Lord, if my Covenant ⟨p. 141⟩be not with Day and Night, and if I have not appointed the Ordinances of Heaven, and Earth, then will I cast away the Seed of Jacob. But Heaven can not be measured, not the Foundations of the Earth searched out beneath; his Covenant is also with day and night, and he hath appointed the Ordinances of Heaven; therefore he will not cast away the Seed of Jacob, who are the coming ones; but will certainly save them from the dreadful Wrath to come, Jer. 33. 25, 26. chap. 50. 4, 5. By this therefore it is manifest, that it is not the greatness of sin, nor thy long continuance in it, no, nor yet thy back-sliding, nor the pollution of thy Nature, that can put a bar in against, or be an hinderance of the Salvation of the coming sinner. For, if indeed this could be, then would this solemn and absolute Determination of the Lord Jesus, of its self fall to the ground, and be made of none effect: But his Counsel shall stand, and he will do all his pleasure. That is, his pleasure in this; for this promise, this irreversible conclusion, ariseth of his Pleasure; and he will stand to it, and will fulfil it, because it is his pleasure.

Suppose that one man had the sins, or as many sins as an hundred, and another should have an hundred times as many as he; yet if they come, this word, I will in no wise cast out, secures them both alike.