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Answ. 1. To that I Answer, First, That Gods Ways and Judgments are Unsearchable, and past finding out in this thing. For, indeed, there is nothing wherein God doth appear more Wonderful in His Ways and Judgments, past finding out, than in this, in sending the Gospel sometimes to a place, where He sees it will not prevail; and denies it to another place, where He sees that if it were among them, it would be likely more to prevail. You will say, This is strange; and yet this is certain. This is the Administrations of God, that sometimes God denies the Gospel to a place where He doth ⟨p. 225⟩see, that if He sent it they would Entertain it more, and sends it to another place where He sees they will not Entertain it. Now to make this out by Scripture, that Text is clear for it, in Mat. 11. 21. Woe unto thee, Chorazin, Woe unto thee, Bethsaida, for if the mighty Works which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have Repented long ago in Sack-cloth and Ashes. It is a strange Speech, almost as any one that is in Scripture: Here's Chorazin, and Bethsaida, have the Gospel sent to them, and they did not Entertain it: Saith Christ, If the Works that were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have Repented, and yet I denied it to them, and sent it to you. Now there can be no Reason given of this, but only this: The Judgments of God are unsearchable, and His Ways past finding out; Gods Mercies are His own, the Gospel is His own, and He will send it where He pleases.

Answ. 1. To that I Answer, First, That Gods Wayes and Judgments are Unsearchable, and past finding out in this thing. For, indeed, there is nothing wherein God doth appear more Wonderful in His Wayes and Judgments, past finding out, than in this, in sending the Gospel sometimes to a place, where He sees it will not prevail; and denies it to another place, where He sees that if it were among them, it would be likely more to prevail. You will say, This is strange; and yet this is certain. This is the Administrations of God, that sometimes God denies the Gospel to a place where He doth ⟨p. 225⟩see, that if He sent it they would Entertain it more, and sends it to another place where He sees they will not Entertain it. Now to make this out by Scripture, that Text is clear for it, in