Chapter 73. The Thirteenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled t
Now, how does this show God's exceeding willingness to be reconciled to sinners? If a man sends his messenger to offer peace to another, and he thinks beforehand, "Oh, but he will have this and that objection against me," and yet he says to his servant, who is tasked with this mission, "You shall answer this objection in this manner, and that objection in that manner."
Chapter 73.
The Thirteenth Argument: Manifesting the Exceeding Willingness of God to Be Reconciled to Sinners Another evidence of God's willingness to be reconciled is this: that God is so importunate with sinners. He uses such strong arguments that he first removes objections, and then he is so insistent. He does not merely satisfy himself by offering mercy but is very importunate in the task. The importunity of God appears, first, in this: that the Scripture expresses God crying out after sinners; not only seeking out sinners but calling and crying out to them. So, the words in the original are of God's beseeching sinners to be reconciled and of God calling to sinners. In Proverbs 1, it is said of wisdom that it cries; the Lord cries out, and that in Isaiah 55.
When he makes a proclamation, he begins first with, "Oh, yes! Oh, everyone that thirsts, come to the waters, and he that has no money," and there is the offer of Christ with a proclamation.