Captives bound in chains, made free by Christ their surety

5. Whereas thou sayest, God did make thee, therefore he will save thee, consider, the vilest sinner in the world upon this account should go to Heaven, yea, every one of them. The Whoremonger whom thou thy self wilt condemn might plead this as well as thou; and so thou wilt make the way to Heaven broader than ever God did make it. Moreover if thou hadst continued such a one as God did make, he would then have made thee happy indeed for ever. God made thee holy and upright, but thou hast rebelled against him: God did make thee a Creature, but he did not make thee a Drunkard; he did not make thee a ⟨p. 95⟩Worlding, nor a Liar, therefore let God's creature be holy, and God will not damn his creature; but if thou be a drunkard, or an hypocrite, and God shall damn the drunkard or the hypocrite, what will become of God's creature. God doth peremptorily answer this, and I will give it thee in his own words. Isa. 27.11—"It is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them, will not have mercy on them, and he that formed them will show them no favour." Is not this directly contrary to the reason of thy hope? wilt thou then plead this no more, while thou continuest in thy sin, and let not Satan keep thee bound with this cord any longer? if thou dost, remember it hath been told thee, that this is but a sandy foundation of thy hope, that thou shalt have the everlasting mercy that shall be shown to God's redeemed ones, that are indeed delivered from their bondage and captivity.

5. Whereas thou sayest, God did make thee, therefore he will save thee, consider, the vilest sinner in the world upon this account should go to Heaven, yea, every one of them. The Whoremonger whom thou thy self wilt condemn might plead this as well as thou; and so thou wilt make the way to Heaven broader than ever God did make it. Moreover if thou hadst continued such a one as God did make, he would then have made thee happy indeed for ever. God made thee holy and upright, but thou hast rebelled against him: God did make thee a Creature, but he did not make thee a Drunkard; he did not make thee a ⟨p. 95⟩Worlding, nor a Lyar, therefore let God's creature be holy, and God will not damn his creature; but if thou be a drundard, or an hypocrite, and God shall damn the drunkard or the hypocrite, what will become of God's creature. God doth peremptorily answer this, and I will give it thee in his own words.