Gv_Med R,emfsion, 41 people after their fins are forgiven , yet it is more than they know,but that if their fins had not been forgiven theymight have had other manner of miferies than they do nowmeet withal perhaps youmeet with fome now,and more thanyou did before, but for ought you know, thofe miferies you meet with now, might have been feven-fold more than now they are, and ano- ther manner of wrath than you now think of, Ira. 40. z. Cry, brr warfare is accomplifbed,for her iniquity is pardoned ; where iniquity is pardoned, there warfare is accomplished; if afflif} ions be not quite removed, yet they are made very eafie co be born, and that upon twogrounds. Firft, Becaufe thegreatnefsof the good that there is inpardon of fin, makes the bitterefl. and faddeJt evil ;Aar there is in afi- Elion to be as nothing ; as to inftance, fuppole a Malefa6tor that is condemned to fome grievous and hideous death , i},.ould have a friend at Court to fue for pardon, or he comes up to get pardon : Well , he comes and is admitted to come into the Kings Prefence , and he receives him gracioufly, pardons him freely , quits him fully of all his guilt , and puts him fully out of all the danger hewas in ; perhaps as he is coming from the King he lofes his Glove or Handker- chief ; Would not that be anunfeemly thing for a man, that af- ter he has got his Pardon, yet becaufe he has loft his Glove, fhould whine andwring his hands, becaufe of the lofs of his Glove ; would not that be an unreafonable thing ? Certainly there is as much unreafonablefs for any man or woman that hath the pardon of their fin, for them to wring their hands, and whine, and keep a ftir ás though they wereundone becaufe they are aflli&ed : For the greateft aflliétion that can befall any in this world, comparedwith the good ofpardon of fin, is not fo much as the lofs of a Glove for the laving of any mans life by the Kings Pardon ; though your 'afflicctions may be more than the lofs ofa Glove.; yet yourpardonoffill is greater than any Kings pardon in theworld : put thefe together, and know hereby the -unreafonablenefs, and when to check thy fell'', (ha- ving any afl'urance of pardonof fin) that thou fhouldft b- fo troubled at any affliaion, and have fo much good fromGod in the pardon of thy fin : Further, for thofe that are troubled at G aff iftions,
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