Baxter - BT785 B39 1657

Spiritual (Peace and Comfort. ; and with him of pardon and falvation r and all this on Condition of your .Acceptance or Confent ? I know the DefpifersofChrifi: (hall be tñiferal,le for all this ; But for you that would fain have Chriti., is it no comfort to know that you ±Mall have him if you will ? and to find this tobe the futnof the Gofpei ? I knowyou have oft:en read thofe free offers, Rev 22.17. whofoever will, let him take: ofthe water of life freely : Ho ever% one that thir/leth , come and drink, &c. Almofl all that I have hitherto Paid to you, is comprifed in that one text, 2oh. 3 . i6. God fo loved theworld, that he gavehis only begotten Son that whofoever believed') in him f oald not perifh, bta have everlafling Life. And as I have I}hewed it you in theCaufes (what Comfort even General Mercy magi afford ) fo let me a little{hew it you in, the Effec`s. I mean, not only in that God is now fatis ied ; but as to your fell and every (inner three three things are produced hereby. t . There is noWá Poffibility of falvation to you. And certainlyeven that íhould be a very great Corné fort. I know youwill meet with force Divines, whoi will tell you that this is no effect of Chrias dpath ; and that elfe aria í%mold die for Godif heprocured him aPower to five which he had not before : But this is no better then aReproachingofour Reedemer. Suppofe that a Traitor have fo abufed a King, that it will neither {hand withhis own Honour, nor Ju- ftice, nor Laws to pardon him if his Compaffiori were fo great that his own Son ?hail fiiffer for him, that fo the King might be capable of pardoning him, without any diminution of his Honour or juUice F2 were

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