Verse 30

Ver. 30. And he said, nay Father Abraham, but if one went unto them from the dead, they would repent.

The verse before, you know, as I told you, it was part of an answer to such as lose their souls, so it is a vindication of the Scriptures of Moses and the Prophets, where he saith, They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them; as if he had said, they should have closed in with the tenders of mercy held out by Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, together with the rest of the glorious, & certain truths that I moved them to utter and hold forth in their generation, to the world, and also ⟨p. 154⟩which they have left on record both for the warning, comfort, and reproof of them who in after ages should come into the world, both by holding forth the state of man by nature, how miserable it was, and by holding out the mercy and grace of God, and how large that was: and also, how free God is and ever was to save them, that did come the right way to him, namely by Christ: together with the lamentable and sad state that those were, and are, and shall be in, that did turn their backs on what they did then speak, and afterwards leave on record for the good of succeeding generations; if they would, or v ill be blessed that are yet alive, let them own them, clo•e in with that which is held forth by them, namely the Messias, or Jesus, that came from heaven to earth on purpose to lay down his life for the rebellious, (as I said before.)

THe verse before, you know, as I told you, it was part of an answer to such as lose their souls, so it is a vindication of the Scriptures of Moses and the Prophets, where he saith, They have Moses and the Prophets let them hear them; as if he had said, they should have closed in with the tenders of mercy held out by Moses, Samuel, David, Isaiah, Jeremiah, together with the rest of the glorious, & certain truths that I moved them to utter and hold forth in their generation, to the world, and also ⟨p. 154⟩which they have left on record both for the warning, comfort, and reproof of them who in after ages should come into the world, both by holding forth the state of man by nature, how miserable it was, and by holding out the mercy and grace of God, and how large that was: and also, how free God is and ever was to save them, that did come the right way to him, namely by Christ: together with the lamentable and sad state that those were, and are, and shall be in, that did turne their backs on what they did then speak, and afterwards leave on record for the good of succeeding generations; if they vvould, or v ill be blessed that are yet alive, let them ovvn them, cloe in vvith that vvhich is held forth by them, namely the Mesias, or Jesus, that came from heaven to earth on purpose to lay dovvn his life for the rebellious, (as I said before.)