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Remi
f
sion.
juflifies
is
not meerly to
cart
ones
felf
on
the
mercy
of
God
(for there
is
none,
but
in a
natural
way know
that God
is a
merciful
God )
but
the
main
ground
of
Juftification,
or
of
juflifying
faith
,
is
the free
grace
of
God through
Jefus
Chrift
;
That
God
is
merciful through a
Mediator:
Otherwife
theground of
your faith
is
tut
on
a
meer
confufed
notion
of
the mercy
of God,
which
will
certainly
fail
you
;
a
heathen
may
have
as
much
to
be
the
ground
of
his
faith, that
the
great
Creator
of
Heaven
and
Earth,
pitties
thofe
that are
in
mifery,
and
I
am
a
poor creature
in
mifery
;
I'le
cry
to
him,
and
i'le
reform
my
life, and
i'le rely
on him
;
thus
far
a
heathen
may go
:
but
the
ground
and
bottom
of
faith
is
not
the
mer-
cy
of God
in
general,
but
the
mercy
of
God
in
and
through
a Mediator
;
obferve
a
little further,
the ground of jullifying
faith
is
not
thus,
that God for Chrifts
fake
will
forgive me
for
what
Chrift
bath done to purchafe my pardon,
but
there
is
another work
of
faith
in
the
fouls
of
believers,
though
the
foul
apprehend
it
not
;
'tis not
the
work
of
faith
in
jufti-
fication,
to
believe
that
Chrift
bath
paid
fo
much
as
my debt
comes
to
;
but
thus, the
work
of
faith
is
to bring
the foul
unto
Chrift,and
to pitch
it
upon the
perfon
of Chrift,
to be
made mine
firfß,and then
the
righteouf
reefs
of
Chrift
to be
mine
:
'Tis
not
thus,
I
believe
this
is
my
debt,
and
there
is
fo
much money
to
pay
it
;
but this
is
the
work
of
faith,to
bring
thee
to be
marryed
to
fuch
a
perfon
;
and
fo
the debt
is
tranfacted
on
him
to whom
thou art marryed
,
and he will
difcharge the debt,
becaufe
thou
art marryed
to
him
;
fo
that
the
ground
of
faith
is
not to
look unto
God
meerly through
his
fon
that
fo
I
may
have
pardon
;
but
thus,
I
molt
come to
have
Chrift
to
be
mine
;
I
mull
be
marryed
with
Chrift,
and fo
through
my
union
with
the
perfon
of
Chrift,
I
come
to
have
all
that
Chrift
bath
done
and
fuffered to
be
made over to
me;
and therefore when
I
come
to look upon the riches
of
the grace
of
God
.
in
the
mediation
of
his fon
,
I
mull
come with
an
eye
of
faith, to
be
marryed
unto
Chrift
,
and
Chrift
with
ar.
The riches
of
Gods
grace
in
Chrift
was opened before ; we now
make ufe
of
it
as
a
trial
to
íhew'
the danger
of
falte
grounds
in
relying
up-
on God
for
pardon.
Fur-