The zealous Christian taking heavenThe zealovs Christian taking heaven

2 This may teach you to magnify the riches and freeness of Gods grace, that God should cast an eye of grace and love upon such a wretch as thou wast; that God should pass by such men as the strict Pharisee, and pitch upon thee: that God ⟨p. 62⟩should not make thee as exemplary in punishment as thou wast in sin; that thou shouldest be made a monument of his mercy, who deserved to be a spectacle of wrath; that God should make his mercy to rest upon thee, that might cause his justice to take hold upon thee. So much for the first Use.

2 This may teach you to magnifie the riches and freenesse of Gods grace, that God should cast an eye of grace and love upon such a wretch as thou wast; that God should passe by such men as the strict Pharisee, and pitch upon thee: that God ⟨p. 62⟩should not make thee as exemplary in punishment as thou wast in sin; that thou shouldest be made a monument of his mercy, who deserved to be a spectacle of wrath; that God should make his mercy to rest upon thee, that might cause his justice to take hold upon thee. So much for the first Use.

2 This Doctrine is useful to men of a ¹civil carriage, of an honest and in-offensive behaviour in the world, that have been religiously educated, lived ingenuously, that never broke out into such gross and exorbitant courses as other men have done:

2 This Doctrine is usefull to men of a ¹civil carriage, of an honest and in-offensive behaviour in the world, that have been religiously educated, lived ingenuously, that never broke out into such grosse and exorbitant courses as other men have done: