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3. He urgently offereth this pardon to you. You may question, but will God entertain me if I come to him for it? Will he not reject me? but if it were so, surely he would not send so many messages to you, use so many entreaties with you, to accept, and come up to the terms of forgiveness: nor come himself by the secret addresses of his Spirit, moving on you in the means. God doth not dissemble with men. It was once used as an argument of consolation, Mark 10. 49. He calleth thee; and the same may be said to you. What mean all those pleadings in the Ministry? those repeated Calls and Invitations? What intends this long continued patience used with you, notwithstanding your unbelief and standing off? Why should you say, he meaneth not me? he himself hath invited, every one that thirsteth, and is weary; and if you are such, you are specified.

3. He urgently offereth this pardon to you. You may question, but will God entertain me if I come to him for it? Will he not reject me? but if it were so, surely he would not send so many messages to you, use so many entreaties with you, to accept, and come up to the terms of forgive ness: nor come himself by the secret addresses of his Spirit, moving on you in the means. God doth not dissemble with men. It was once used as an argument of consolation, Mark 10. 49. He calleth thee; and the same may be said to you. What mean all those pleadings in the Ministry? those repeated Calls and Invitations? What intends this long continued patience used with you, notwithstanding your unbelief and standing off? Why should you say, he meaneth not me? he himself hath invited, every one that thirsteth, and is weary; and if you are such, you are specified.

4. He is grieved at your unbelief and despondency. He takes it ill that troubled Sinners should question the truth of his protestations: that they should rather credit Satan's discouragements, than his invitations; that when their adversary tells them, ⟨p. 272⟩