Come and welcome to Jesus Christ. Or, A plain and profitable discourse on John…

Thirdly. The Father's giving of them to His to save them, declares that he is, and will be gentle and patient towards them, under all the•• Provocations and Miscarriages. It is not to • imagined the Trials and Provocations that t•• Son of God hath all along had with these People, that have been given to him that save them: Indeed he is said to be a tried Stone for He has been tried, not only by the Devil, Guilt of Sin, Death, and the Curse of the Law, but also by his People's Ignorance, Unruliness, falls into Sin, and declining to Errors in Life and Doctrine. Were we but capable of seeing how the Lord Jesus has been Tried, even by his People, ever since there was one of them in the World, we should be amazed at his patience and gentle Carriages to them. It is said indeed, The Lord is very Pitiful, slow to Anger, and and of great Mercy: And indeed if He had not been so, He could never have endured their Manners as he has done▪ from Adam hitherto. Therefore is his Pity and Bowels towards his Church, preferred above the Pity and Bowels of a Mother towards her Child. Can a Wom•• forget her sucking Child, that she should not have compassion on the Son of her Womb? Yea, they may forget; yet I will not forget thee, saith the Lord, Isa. 49 15

Thirdly. The Father's giving of them to His to save them, declares that he is, and will be gentle and patient towards them, under all the•• Provocations and Miscarriages. It is not to • imagined the Tryals and Provocations that t•• Son of God hath all along had with these People, that have been given to him that save them: Indeed he is said to be a tried Stone for He has been tried, not only by the Devil, Guilt of Sin, Death, and the Curse of the Law, but also by his People's Ignorance, Unruliness, falls into Sin, and declining to Errors in Life and Doctrine. Were we but capable of seeing how the Lord Jesus has been Tried, even by his People, ever since there was one of them in the World, we should be amazed at his patience and gentle Carriages to them. It is said indeed, The Lord is very Pitiful, slow to Anger, and and of great Mercy: And indeed if He had not been so, He could never have endured their Manners as he has done from Adam hitherto. Therefore is his Pity and Bowels towards his Church, preferred above the Pity and Bowels of a Mother towards her Child. Can a Wom forget her sucking Child, that she should not have compassin on the Son of her Womb? Yea, they may forget; yet I will not forget thee, siaith the Lord,