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off – tho [though] we deserve it. Smites gently –
takes health – prosperity – friends –
reputation – objects of desire – that we
may be led to that rep. [repentance] wh. [which] comports
with our state. Merciful in this even
= for rep. [repentance] is the best thing for sinners – this
must be induced if poss [possible] – at every
sacrifice – hence – (Some grow hard.)

3 He tries Long-suffering & severer
measures –. He forbears to destroy
– but not to inflict severe strokes of
Chastisement – he proceed [proceeds] to lay his
hand heavily on – to exhaust the
store-house of temporal judgments for
mans [man's] rescue. Not so unmerc. [unmerciful] – mer-
-ciful – as to suffer men to go on in sin without
a last effort to save – will not hazard