Englands duty under the present gospel liberty from Revel. III, vers. 20

Thirdly, It is yet a greater Evidence of the Patience of God in bearing with, and forbearing us, under the guilt of that special sin, viz. The slighting and neglecting of Jesus Christ: Here's a sin that goes to the very Heart of Jesus Christ, he can bear any other sin rather than that; and yet this hath Christ born from every Soul of you, You are the Men and Women that have spurned at the yearning bowels of his Mercies, slighted his Grace, trampled his precious Blood under Foot, and yet hath he forborne you unto this day; read Matth. 22. 5 and let thy Conscience answer, whether thou art not equally deep in the guilt of making light of Christ with those wretches upon whom it is there charged? Christ hath suffered the wrath of God in thy room, brought home Salvation in Gospel offers to thy door; and then to be slighted! no Patience but his own could bear it. Every Sermon and Prayer you have fat under, with a dead Heart; every motion of his Spirit which you have quenched, what is this but the making light of Christ, and the great Salvation? Here the deepest project of infinite Wisdom, and the richest gift of free-grace, wherein God commends his love to Men, are vilely undervalued as small things; and thus have you done days without number; and yet his Hand is not stretched out, to cut thee off in thy Rebellion; Who is a God like unto thee! What Patience like the Patience of Christ!

Thirdly, It is yet a greater Evidence of the Patience of God in bearing with, and forbearing us, under the guilt of that special sin, viz. The slighting and neglecting of Jesus Christ: Here's a sin that goes to the very Heart of Jesus Christ, he can bear any other sin rather than that; and yet this hath Christ born from every Soul of you, You are the Men and Women that have sputned at the yearning bowels of his Mercies, slighted his Grace, trampled his precious Blood under Foot, and yet hath he forborn you unto this day; read