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We finde likewise in the prophecie of E∣say, that the Lord, beeing there desirous to withdraw that wicked & obstinate people of Israell, from their greeuous offences, (in which too long they had wilfully con∣tinued;) beginneth also first with a gentle admonishment, saying: * VVashe you: make you cleane; take away the euill of your workes from before mine eyes: cease to do euill; learne to doe well; seeke iudge∣ment;
relieue the oppressed; iudge the fa∣therlesse; and defend the widdow.
And, hauing thus fore-told them vvhat they ought to doe, hee then presently ad∣deth: * Come nowe, and let vs reason to∣gether; though your sinnes were as Crim∣son, they shall be made white as snowe: though they were redde, like Skarlet, they shall be as vvooll.
Declaring heereby vnto vs, howe readie he is to receiue them that truly repent; and how prone to put all their former offences, cleane out of his remembrance.
As may further appeare againe, euen by the witnesse of his owne wordes in the 18. chapter of the afore-named Ezechiell; vvhere hee saith: * If the wicked will re∣turne from all his sinnes that he hath com∣mitted, & keepe all my statutes, & do that which is lawfull and right; hee shall surely liue, and shall not die.
All his transgressions that he hath com∣mitted, they shall not be mentioned vnto him: but in his righteousnes that hee hath done, he shall liue.
Moreouer; VVhen the wicked (saith hee) turneth away from his wickednes that he hath committed, and doth that which is
lavvfull and right, hee shall saue his soule aliue.
Because hee considereth, and turneth a∣way from all his transgressions that he hath committed, hee shall surely liue, and shall not die.
Againe; vvhen I, saith the most Merci∣full, shall say vnto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die: if hee turne from his sinnes, and doe that which is lawfull and right; to wit: If hee restore the pledge, and giue againe that hee had taken away by robberie, and walke in the statutes of life, without com∣mitting iniquitie, then shall hee surely liue, and not die.
None of the sinnes that hee hath com∣mitted, shall be mentioned vnto him, [or any more thought vpon,] for, insomuch as he doth nowe the thing that is lawfull and right, hee shall surely liue.
Esay, 1, 16, 17,
Esay, 1, 18,
Ezec, 18, 21.
verse, 22.
Ezec, 18. 27
verse, 28,
Ezech. 33, 14, 15,
verse, 16,