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2. God denies in mercy, if that we ask would be an occasion of sin. Suppose a man beg wealth; God sees the having of wealth would make him a proud man: Now the denial of that is a mercy to him. ¹As in the forementioned instance. God would not let Isaac go down to Egypt, because it would have been an occasion of sin to him. As he said very well, God denies that in love, which he grants in anger. God doth not hear many in their desires, ⟨p. 22⟩that he may hear them for their good.

2. God denies in mercy, if that we ask would be an occasion of sinne. Suppose a man beg wealth; God sees the having of wealth would make him a proud man: Now the denial of that is a mercy to him. ¹As in the forementioned instance. God would not let Isaac go down to Aegypt, because it would have been an occasion of sin to him. As he said very well, God denies that in love, which he grants in anger. God doth not hear many in their desires, ⟨p. 22⟩that he may hear them for their good.

1. 1Concedit iratus quod negat propitias; multos Deus non exaudit ad voluntatem, ut exaudiat ad salutem.

3. God denies a prayer in mercy, when he gives a better in lieu of it; It was the desire of Moses that he might go into the land of Canaan, but it was better to him to go to the heavenly Canaan, and therefore God translated him thither. So the Apostles desired Christ to tell them, ¹when he would restore the Kingdom to Israel. He would not resolve them that, yet he gave them a greater mercy, for he gave them the holy Ghost. So David desired the life of that child that was illegitimate; but God took away the bastard (which would have been a living monument