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Gotpel
Tvnn1
sion.
The
word
of
Reconciliation
and
pardon
of
Sin
;
and
if
God
finable
me
to clear
up
unto
you the
excellency of thofe
Trútils
contained
in this
Scripture, I
hope they
will
prove
in all
your
eyes
to
be
as
Apples
of
Gold
in
Piaures
of
Silver.
The
words
read
,
are
the
firfl words
of
one
of David's
Penitential
Pfalms
and
they
are indeed the genuine
voice
of
a
true Penitent
;
the very
Charac`fer
of
an
humble
Pe
nitential
Soul
;
he
is
one
that
has
admiring thoughts
cf
the
bleffednefs
of
the
pardon
of
fin.
I
will
not
fpend
time
in
Analyfing
the
whole Pfalm
,
becaufe
the
fweetnefs and
bleffednefs
of
the
Argument draws
my
heart
to come pre-.
fently
to
it
;
And
blefTed
may
your
ears be,
who after hear-
ing
of
the dreadful
evil
of
fin, may come
to hear the
bief
-.
fed
docrine
of
Pardon
;
it
is
that which
God
has
denyed
to
many thoulands
:
And
who
knows
but
many
even
of
thole that
in
this
Congregation
have
heard
the
forrow
of
that
Docirine,
are now gone
(
perhaps to
their
own place
)
and
feel
what they
then heard
,
and
much
more,
and
are
pal}
ever hearing the argument
of
pardon
and
lórgivenefs
of
fin
:
that
bleffed
found
Mall never come
to
their
ears
;
bur
the
horrid
neife
of
yelling,
roarings
, and
curlings
of
damned fpirits,
for
the
wrath
of
God
that
lyes heavy on
them
for tht
it
fin.
This Pfalm
in
the title
of
it
is
a
PfaIm
of
David Maf-
chit
;
that
is,
a
Pfalm
of
Infirit
ion
;
or
,
for
Inf
ru
ion
And what
is
á
more
ufeful
Inffruction
than
to
inffrucf the
foul
where
true
Lleflédnefs lyes
?
And what
is
a
better
inftruftion
than to
tell
man
the way
of
the pardon
and
for-
givenefs
of
fin
?
the way to true
happinefs
?
The
happinefs
of
the
reafonable
creature
is
that which
many wife men
thought to
find
out,
but
after
all
their
fearch
,
they
were
much puzled
,
and
in
the
dark
,
and could never come
to
find
where
it
lay
,
by
all
the
wifdom
of
the
flefh
;
only
the
rational creature
is
capable
of
bleffednefs
,
becaufe
it
is
ca-
pable
of
fuch an
aft
as
to reflect upon
it
felf
:
that
is
the
ground
why the
rational creature
is
capable
of
bleffed-
1nefs
,
above
all
other
creatures
;
no
creature
can
truly
be
faid