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l;8 2, GoTel lXennfsion, company them there are woful evils of fin that accompany thy foul , yet God will accept of thee; fo there are great evils in the ways of God, Afllicions that accompany them,yet thou wilt accept of them and think it reafonable : What, /hall God accept of my foul , notwithffanding all the evil of fn ; and /hall not I accept Of Gods ways, notwithffanding all the evil of afifidion and trouble ? certainly, the foul that is pardoned, cannot but anfwer God fo far as this Will God juftifie 'me notwithftanding my fin ? I will juftifie God not- withflañding any trouble, affiic`fion, difficulty, or fufferings that may befal me inhis ways, and I will juftifie the ways of God ; this is both an Evidence and a duty ; God juflifies our fouls though they be very finful ; we have caufe to jufli- ffie Gods ways, though they be very tr oublefome ; if thou dolt not fo, thou art none ofGods child ; for wifdom is jußi_ fiedofher Children ; thou impel} thy fins are pardoned , and that God will juftifie thee ; and wilt not thou juftifie 'him ? Does not thy fin hinder Gods grace to thee ; and (hall trou- ble and affliction hinder thy glorifying God ? O man ! thou 'haft too vile a heart, and too bale a fpirit, to be one of thofe that God bath pardoned ; if thou wert a child of Wifdom , and one whom God bath pardoned, as God bath juflified thee, fo thou wilt juflifie God : This note may meet with thofe that in company hear Minifters and the ways of God cryed out againft , and yet have not a word to fpeak to jufti- fie God, perhaps Gentlemen and others fpeak ill of Gods ways, and thou flandeft fneaking and haft not a word to fay for God and his ways ; Doll thou think God bath. juftified thee , and doll thou hear God and his People, and his Word reproached, and thou haft not a heart to juftifie God ? Tenthly and laffily, Thofe whomGodpardons and forgives he puts in them a mercifulframe of heart to forgive others ; and that upon Divinegrounds there is a kind of natural forgive- nefs : many will forgive, but it is as a Heathen forgives ano- ther and it is a fhame for many that profefs themfelves Ghriftians, that theydo not go fo far ; but you muff forgive in a fpiritual way, for that is the way that accompanies pardon of fin, to forgive, becaufe I have had more for- given;

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