A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

[1.] For quality. There was no limitation as to the deepness of the wounds caused by the Fiery Serpents in the Wilderness; the precept of looking upon them, extended to the cure of all, let the sting reach never so deep, the wound be never so wide, or sharp, and his sight be never so weak, if he could but cast his Eye upon the Brazen one. The Commission Christ gave to his disciples, was to preach the Gospel to every Creature, Mark 16.15. every Humane Creature; the worst as well as the best; though you ⟨p. 109⟩meet with monstrous sinners in the likeness of Beasts, and Devils, except none from suing out a pardon in the court of mercy. The Almightiness of his mercy doth as much transcend our highest iniquities, as it doth our shallowest apprehensions. Our sins, as well as our substance, are but as the Dust of the Balance, as easily to be blown away by his grace, as the other puffed into nothing by his power. No sin is excepted in the Gospel, but that against the holy Ghost, because it doth not stand with the honour of God to pardon them who wilfully scorn the means, and account the Redeemer no better than an Impostor. No man can expect in reason he should be saved by mercy, who by a wilful malice against the Son of God, tramples upon the free offers of grace, and provokes mercy it self to put on the deportment of justice, and call in revenging wrath to its assistance, for the vindication of its despised honour. The infinite grace of God dissolves the greatest mists, as well as the smallest exhalations, and melts the thick clouds of sin as well as the little icicles.

[1.] For quality. There was no limitation as to the deepness of the wounds caused by the Fiery Serpents in the Wilderness; the precept of looking upon them, extended to the cure of all, let the sting reach never so deep, the wound be never so wide, or sharp, and his sight be never so weak, if he could but cast his Eye upon the Brazen one. The Commission Christ gave to his disciples, was to preach the Gospel to every Creature, Mark 16.15. every Humane Creature; the worst as well as the best; though you ⟨p. 109⟩meet with monstrous sinners in the likeness of Beasts, and Devils, except none from suing out a pardon in the court of mercy. The Almightiness of his mercy doth as much transcend our highest iniquities, as it doth our shallowest apprehensions. Our sins, as well as our substance, are but as the Dust of the Ballance, as easily to be blown away by his grace, as the other puft into nothing by his power. No sin is excepted in the Gospel, but that against the holy Ghost, because it doth not stand with the honour of God to pardon them who wilfully scorn the means, and account the Redeemer no better than an Impostor. No man can expect in reason he should be saved by mercy, who by a wilful malice against the Son of God, tramples upon the free offers of grace, and provokes mercy it self to put on the deportment of justice, and call in revenging wrath to its assistance, for the vindication of its despised honour. The infinite grace of God dissolves the greatest mists, as well as the smallest exhalations, and melts the thick clouds of sin as well as the little icicles.