The vvorldes resurrection, or The generall calling of the Iewes A familiar commentary vpon the eleuenth chapter of Saint Paul to the Romaines, according to the sence of Scripture, and the consent of the most iudicious interpreters, wherein aboue fiftie notable questions are soundly answered, and the particular doctrines, reasons and vses of euery verse, are profitable and plainly deliuered. By Thomas Draxe. Minister of the word of God.

They shall be grafted in.

Wee learne here not to deny all hope of pardon, euen to men that fall and offend most greeuously, but to put them in some hope of obtaining mercy,* 1.1 so long as they do not by manifest signes declare themselues to be alto∣gether desperate and incorrigible. Amos. 5. But it must bee so propounded, that still their sinne may bee beaten downe, their securitie remoued, and their minde (in sense of their damnable downefall, into which they are cast) more stirred vp to seeke the face and fauour of God.

Reasons. For, first Gods power is infinite, and his mer∣cies bottomlesse, & therfore he can & may conuert them. Secondly, if there be no hope and comfort left of mercie and forgiuenesse, men will neuer seeke to bee reconciled vnto God, by true repentance, but either will bee swal∣lowed vp of despaire, or else persist and proceed on in their obstinacie and blindnesse.

Vse. This meeteth with the error of the Donatists and Nouatians, who did denie repentance, and receiuing in againe into the fellowship of the Church to those that shrunke from the profession of faith in time of persecu∣tion, or fell into manifest offences after Baptisme, where∣as

the word of God is flatly against it in many places,* 1.2 and in many particulers, 2. Cor. 2. v. 6 7.8. Math. 18.22.

2. Vse. Let no man (albeit he haue beene neuer so great a sinner, or neuer so often fallen and offended) despaire of Gods mercy, but onely acknowledge and bewaile his sinnes before God, labour and resolue to forsake his sinnes, and to leade a new life, and wholy and perfectly relie himselfe vpon Gods mercies in Christ, and by the hand of faith apply them continually to his soule, and then though his sinnes were as crimson,* 1.3 they shall he as white as snowe: though they were as redde as Scarlet they shall be as wooll, for Christ his satisfaction is of infinite vali∣ditie and vertue: our sinnes finite, but his mercies are infinite.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Acts. 8. v. 22. Dan. 4 24. Ephes. 2.
• * 1.2

  Ier. 3.1. Iohn. 21.5.10.17.
• * 1.3

  Isay. 1. v. 18.