Useful instructions for a professing people in times of great security and degeneracy

Doct. 1. […] an hundred and forty ⟨p. 61⟩years, •are with the […]

Doct. 1. 〈…〉 an hundred and fourty ⟨p. 61⟩years, •are with the 〈…〉

Reas. 1. Because this is the day of Gods […] •ance: God is perfectly just, and he shall be known to be so in the day of vengeance, when the great Assizes shall be set, and he shall render unto every one according to their works; but mean while he hath a day of mercy, wherein (without any infringement to his Justice and Holiness) he moderates the Sentence past upon sinners; and delays the full execution of it, mean-while conferring much of his goodness upon them. Now the season of the shine of this Attribute of Mercy, appearing in his Clemency and Benignity, is properly here in this world: God will have the glory of all his Attributes shine out and appear in his Efficiency; now there is no room for, nor knowledge of his Patience, Long sufferance, and Goodness in Hell, where the Cup of Wrath is without mixture: God therefore now makes it appear in the […] of wrath fitted to destruction, Rom.9.22.

Reas. 1. Because this is the day of Gods 〈…〉 •ance: God is perfectly just, and he shall be known to be so in the day of vengeance, when the great Assizes shall be set, and he shall render unto every one according to their works; but mean while he hath a day of mercy, wherein (without any infringement to his Justice and Holiness) he moderates the Sentence past upon sinners; and delayes the full execution of it, mean-while conferring much of his goodness upon them. Now the season of the shine of this Attribute of Mercy, appearing in his Clemency and Benignity, is properly here in this world: God will have the glory of all his Attributes shine out and appear in his Efficiency; now there is no room for, nor knowledge of his Patience, Long sufferance, and Goodness in Hell, where the Cup of Wrath is without mixture: God therefore now makes it appear in the of wrath fitted to destruction,