great many difficulties in the way, yet luft to that fin being tong , it will break through all difficulties to get to it ; fo in mercy, when God comes with mercy to forgive a foul , this mercy ofGod must go through abundance of difficulties before it gets to you, which argues it to be wonderful ftrong mercy, and therefore makes him bleffed that partakes of it. When . God made the World, it was done with aword fpeaking, God laid, Let there be light, and there was light : But when God comes to pardon a finner, Heaven and Earth muff be moved ; there muft be a greater work of God in pardoningof a finner, than in making oftheworld certainly the work is greater, and palfes through more difficulties. As, Firft, All the wrongs that ever thou hall done to God Hand betwixt thee and pardon;never did any man in the world wrong another man as thou haft wronged God : How finwrongs God has in part been held forth to you, in the evil of fin, and how contrary fin is to the infinite holinefs of God, yet mercy breaks through that, yea, above all,that great and-difficult work of the fatisfying the infinite juftice of God, yet mercy breaks through that, and there Rands in that. i. This difculty,that before thouranfl be pardoned,God muff be made Man, andyet mull remain thefame God he was before ; thou-cryeft for pardon offin, or thon art undone ; fuppofe now, that Gods bowels of mercy did even yearn towards thee for to pardon thy fin, yet before this is done there muft be this great workdone ; that Godmuff be made man, and yet remain the fame Godhe was before here is a mightydifficult work, a greater work than making of the world, and yet mercy breaks through this. 2. Here's thisflands betweenfin andpardon, That when God is made Man, he muff dye andbe made a.eurfe ; and not only fo, but God the Father muft do it; he muft take his own Son and flab him for thee, hemuff himfelf take him and put him to death, and himfelf mutt pour out his wrath upon his own Son, before thy fins can be pardoned.. Now that God the Fatherfhould take, his own Son, the Son of his delight, flabhim t9 the heart, and himfelf put him to death, this is a mighty great work ; and yet this muff.be_done before thou canft be pardoned. . 2..,There'.
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