Here then 1 No man can want an argu∣ment to urge for imploring the mitigation of Gods anger. But it is to be urged rightly. Namely, come groning under the burden of thy sinnes, desiring above all things absolu∣tion from them, and to be in Gods favour, firmly resolving to live godly for the time to come.
2 If this be a reason of mitigating Gods anger, much more is a pious conversation. Which Job useth chap. 31. and Hezekiah Isa. 38.3. But most of all the merit of Christ ap∣prehended by a lively faith.
If this be Gods reasoning, how unlike to God are they, who from other mens miseries spirituall or temporall take occasion of cru∣elly deriding them! Specially, from their spirituall miseries, of defaming them, and (if they be of a more cholerick nature) of pro∣voking and vexing them; from their corpo∣rall