7 4 Golpel Xemifsion. will ,let thoufand thoufands of others perifh eternally, to be byt as a black ground for that glorious work, that I intend to manifeft in the riches of my grace in Chrift in the pardoning of their fin : thus you fee it is a peculiar mercy, and therefore blared are they that have their iniquities forgiven ; for it is a mercy that ispeculiar to them only. Oh how ought they to biefs God; that he bath calkd them out of the multitude, when he has left others to the fwayof their own carnal fottifh and malicious hearts togo on againft the wayes ofgrace ; andall becaufe he will have mercyon whGmhe will havemc<cy. áip# iO¡ CHAP. XII. Of the Poffibility of Pardoning Mercy, bow it would be prifed by poor Souls now under wrath. z . Ar- Vrther,.Bleffcd is he that bath his iniquitiesforgiven,becaufe gumeut. the very pof ibility of it to thoufands of creatures nowunder wrath would beprifèd more, than ten thoufand worlds, to have but a poflibility ofit upon any terms ; thofe that are now damn'd in Hell, and fee the ftroaks ofGods dreadful wrath againft them for their fin, that are now - fwallowed up in the gulf of mifery and condemnation ; if they might have but any poflibility to have their fins pardoned ; howwould they prife it , if fuch a Meffenger were fent fromGod to Hell-gates to call there and to cry out,Oye damnedfpirits,behold a meffage from theAlmigh- ty ; Icome unto youfrom him, and this is the ?mirage to letyou now,rhat there is a poffibility upon fame terms (that Godwillre- quire)that yourfins may be pardoned, andyoudelivered from that dreadful wrath you now lye under ? Howwould the damned fpi- rits fing and rejoyce, and look about them to attend this mef- fage ? What acclamations would there be in Hell in the midft ofthofe fiery flames ? What holding up-ofhands and rejoycing urould there be to hear of fuch a thing, that there is a poffibi- lity on any terms ? theywould not Rand to enquire what the terms were, whether hard or -eafie ., theywould anfwer, let them
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