The truly blessed man

6. In the great patience with which he waits on men, though they neglect these offers. When they bid him depart, and turn their backs upon him, he doth not presently issue out the Oath against them, and say they shall never have another offer made them; no, but when they have been breaking of the treat•, he reneweth it again, he cometh afresh, and tarrieth to see if it will not repent them. How long did he wait on the Old World, in the days of Noah? He tells us that he waits to be gracious, Isa. 30.18. And in this waiting he trieth all courses with them, he useth fair and foul means, Promises, Threatenings, Mercies, Judgments, and all to see if their hard hearts may be wrought over to a compliance with his offers of grace, and when all means fail, he is at a stand, and deliberates what to do with them, Hos. 6.4. And expresseth himself as one that can hardly find in his heart to execute the doubly deserved Sentence of Wrath upon them, Hos. 11.8.

6. In the great patience with which he waits on men, though they neglect these offers. When they bid him depart, and turn their backs upon him, he doth not presently issue out the Oath against them, and say they shall never have another offer made them; no, but when they have been breaking of the treat•, he reneweth it again, he cometh afresh, and tarrieth to see if it will not repent them. How long did he wait on the Old World, in the days of Noah? He tells us that he waits to be gracious, Isa. 30.18. And in this waiting he trieth all courses with them, he useth fair and foul means, Promises, Threatnings, Mercies, Judgments, and all to see if their hard hearts may be wrought over to a compliance with his offers of grace, and when all means fail, he is at a stand, and deliberates what to do with them, Hos. 6.4. And expresseth himself as one that can hardly find in his heart to execute the doubly deserved Sentence of Wrath upon them,