For Christ through their unbelief, hath not taken off one Farthing of their Debt, but all is left and remains upon their own Score. And I can no other way recover Glory, but by having it out of them: And therefore it is that an Eternity is required, because, but by an Eternity of Suffering, it is, that they can come to satisfy. Prov. 27. 20. Hell and Destruction are never full, or [satisfied] as the next Words show the meaning to be. Then says Truth and Righteousness, their whole Lives have been contrary to my Love, the whole actings and the courses of them have been but a making a Lye, a Web of Hypocrisy, continually woven and vended. Rev. 22. 15. That love and make a Lye, and Rom. 3. 13. Their Tongues are full of falsehood and deceit; and again, Give them their Portion with Hypocrites: whom of all else I hate, says Truth. Then boils up Jealousy, Every Creature hath been an Idol, and made their God, and set up in God's stead, and they have been inflamed with them (as of Idolaters the Prophet speaks.) Idols of Jealousy have all their Lusts been: and the Glory due to me hath been given ⟨p. 176⟩to them. But you will say, will not Mercy at last speak a good Word for them? will it not allay and moderate all these? No, but turn as fiercely against them as any other Attribute, and plead, I indeed did a long while restrain all these other Attributes that were provoked every Moment, [Whom God endured with much long suffering, says Rom. 9. 22.] And that they have lived so long free from Wrath, hath been by means of me; I waiting for their Repentance, which hath cost me Millions. I have spent Riches on them, in forbearance of them: All which now is to be reckoned to them in Wrath. You have it Rom. 2. 4, 5. They have despised the riches of his Goodness, and Forbearance, and long-Suffering, not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth them to Repentance. But after their hardness and impenitent Heart, treasure up unto themselves Wrath, &c. And says Grace, I was presumed on, and made a stale to, and defender of their Lusts; and was turned into Wantonness, Jude 4.
For Christ through their unbelief, hath not taken off one Farthing of their Debt, but all is left and remains upon their own Score. And I can no other way recover Glory, but by having it out of them: And therefore it is that an Eternity is required, because, but by an Eternity of Suffering, it is, that they can come to satisfy. Prov. 27. 20. Hell and Destruction are never full, or [satisfied] as the next Words shew the meaning to be. Then says Truth and Righteousness, their whole Lives have been contrary to my Love, the whole actings and the courses of them have been but a making a Lye, a Web of Hypocrisy, continually woven and vended. Rev. 22. 15. That love and make a Lye, and Rom. 3. 13. Their Tongues are full of falshood and deceit; and again, Give them their Portion with Hypocrites: whom of all else I hate, says Truth. Then boyls up Jealousy, Every Creature hath been an Idol, and made their God, and set up in God's stead, and they have been enflamed with them (as of Idolaters the Prophet speaks.) Idols of Jealousy have all their Lusts been: and the Glory due to me hath been given ⟨p. 176⟩to them. But you will say, will not Mercy at last speak a good Word for them? will it not allay and moderate all these? No, but turn as fiercely against them as any other Attribute, and plead, I indeed did a long while restrain all these other Attributes that were provoked every Moment, [Whom God endured with much long suffering, says Rom. 9. 22.] And that they have lived so long free from Wrath, hath been by means of me; I waiting for their Repentance, which hath cost me Millions. I have spent Riches on them, in forbearance of them: All which now is to be reckoned to them in Wrath. You have it Rom. 2. 4, 5. They have despised the riches of his Goodness, and Forbearance, and long-Suffering, not knowing that the Goodness of God leadeth them to Repentance. But after their hardness and impenitent Heart, treasure up unto themselves Wrath, &c. And says Grace, I was presumed on, and made a stale to, and defender of their Lusts; and was turned into Wantonness, Jude 4.
