very good sign that he will forgive us if we repent. Thus natural Light would reason, and so the King of Nineveh, a Heathen, reasons, Who can tell if God will turn and repent? But we are fully assured of this by the gracious declarations of the Gospel, and the way of pardon and forgiveness which is therein establisht through faith in the blood of Jesus Christ, who was made a propitiation for the sins of the whole world.Therefore the long-suffering of God should be a powerful argument to us to break off our sins by repentance: For this is the End of God's Patience; He is long-suffering to us ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. He hath no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that the wicked should turn from his way and live. God every where expresseth a vehe∣ment desire and earnest expectation of our repentance and conversion; Jer. 4.14. O Jerusalem! wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be sa∣ved. And Chap. 13.27. Woe unto thee Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? He who is so patient as to the punishment of our sins, is almost impatient of our re∣pentance 0