Seventhly, Would Jesus Christ have mercy offered in the first place
to the biggest sinners? Then here is ground for those that, as to
practice, have not been such, to come to him for mercy.

Although there is no sin little of itself; because it is a
contradiction of the nature and majesty of God; yet we must admit of
divers numbers, and also of aggravations. Two sins are not so many
as three; nor are three that are done in ignorance so big as one that
is done against light, against knowledge and conscience. Also there
is the child in sin, and a man in sin that has his hairs gray, and
his skin wrinkled for very age. And we must put a difference betwixt
these sinners also. For can it be that a child of seven, or ten, or
sixteen years old, should be such a sinner--a sinner so vile in the
eye of the law as he is who has walked according to the course of
this world, forty, fifty, sixty, or seventy years? Now the youth,
this stripling, though he is a sinner, is but a little sinner, when
compared with such.

Now, I say, if there be room for the first sort, for those of the
biggest size, certainly there is room for the lesser size? If there
be a door wide enough for a giant to go in at, there is certainly
room for a dwarf. If Christ Jesus has grace enough to save great
sinners, he has surely grace enough to save little ones. If he can
forgive five hundred pence, for certain he can forgive fifty; Luke
vii. 41, 42.

But you said before, that the little sinners must stand by until the
great ones have received their grace, and that is discouraging!