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Go
fpel
krnif
síon.
to
you,
and his
blood
and fufferings
for the pardoning of
you,
and
you blafpheme
becaufe
you think
he will
pardon
;
of
the two
methinks you fhould judge the
fecond
fort
worft
you blafpheme
becaufe
you hope
God
will
pardon,
and
the
other
blafpheme
God
becaufe they
know
he will
not
par
-
don
;
'T'is
fomething
iror
fe
to
take liberty
to
fin,becaufe
you
hope
God will
pardon,than
they
that
fin
becaufe
that
they
are
out
of
all
hopes
of
pardon. Thou that takeft
liberty
on
this
ground
to blaf-
pheme the Name
of
God
;
What
thinker
thou
wilt
become
of
thee
another day
?
Now
thou
dolt
blafpheme,
becaufe
thou
hopefiz
that
God will
pardon
thee
;
ere long thou
maift come
to that condition
to blafpheme
God
eternally,
becaufe,
he
will
not pardon
thee
:
Asi
make
no
quefion,
but many
Swearers,
Drunkards,
unclean
perfons and the
like,
that
have gone
on in
fin on
this
ground,becaufe they
hoped that
God
would
pardon
them
;
are now gone
to-
their
own place,
and
blafpheme be-
caufe
they
find
that
God
will never pardon
:
fo
that thou that
blafphemefl
now,
it may
be
thou (halt
blafpheme
eternally
but
it
will
be
otherwife
:
thou
daft
it
now
in hopes
that
God_
will
pardon;
thou
(halt
there
do
it,
becaufe
thou
(halt
have
no
hopes that he
will
ever pardon.
5.
Thou
that
finnefl
now
-in
hopes
that
God will
pardon,
if
God
inlighten
thy
mind, theft things
will
be
an
intolerable
burden
to
thee
;
and
if
there
be
any
thing
that
will
indanger the
finking
of
thy
foul
unto the bottomlefs
gulf
of
defpair
,
it
is
like
to
be
this
;
you
now give
way
to
the
reafonings
of your
own
hearts;
to
further
fin
from the confideration
of
Gods
par-
doning
mercy
;
the
fame
reafon
that
furthers
fin in
you now ,
from the confideration
of
pardon,
will make
you
have
further
thoughts of defpairing
of
Gods mercy
:
Suppofe thou
goeft
on
a
great while,
and heapeft up
fin
on
this
prefumption
:
Let
me
put this unto
thee, either God
will
inlighten thy
Confcience,
or
he
will
not do
it
;
if
he
never do
it, thou
art
eternally loft
;
but
if
he do
it,
if
he come at
length
and awaken
Confcience;
then what
a
load
of
anguifh
and
trouble
will lie upon
thy
foul,
that will
make
thee
cry out,
O
Lord,
I
have
not
only
finned
:
but
now
I
come
to
feek
for
mercy
;
my mouth is
flopt
with
the
thoughts
of
that
mercy
that
I
have abufed;Now nothing
but