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Ga./pet

Tomßioys.

177

your

converfation among all

with whom you

have

to do,

and

then what

a beauty

and Evidence

9f

your

Juflification would it

be

unto you

?

Sixthly,

2hofe

whom

God

pardons,he

makes

them

know

what

pardon

means

;

thou

hopeft

thy

fins

are pardoned

;

Dolt

thou

underfland,

and know

what hath

been

faid

about

it

?

ceri

tainly thofe whom

God

pardons,

he

caufes

admiring thoughts

in

the

foul

of

the

excellency

of

this

bleffednefs

of

the

par-

don

of

fin

;

the

foul is

taken

with

the admiration

of

three

things.

Firft,

it

admires

at

the

freenefs and

the

riches

of

Gods

grace.

Secondly,at

the

price

that

was

paid

for

pardon.Thirdly,

It

admires

at

the wonderful

good

it

is

brought

into,

and

that

which the

foul

receives

by

this

bleffednefs

of

the

pardon

of

fin

i

other

things

God

may beftow

on

men

and

women,

and

they

the

not

worth

of

them,

and do

not

mind

God

in

them

;

but when

God

bellows

pardon

of

fin, he makes

the

foul

have

admiring thoughts

of

ir,

and to

know what it

is,

Jer.

3

3.

9.

And

it

f

hall

be to me

a

Name

of

joy, a

praife,

and

honour

,

and

they

(hall

fear

and

tremble,

for

all

the goodnefs

and

pro

fJerity

that

1

procure unto

it

;

certainly

if

others fhall do

it,

much

more

themfelves

;

thofe whom

God

pardons he beftows fuch

mercies upon,

as

that the

foul

fhall

even

ftand

amazed

with

a

trembling

heart

and

an

amazed

fpirit

,

to

behold all

the good-

nefs

that

the

Lord

Thews

to

it

:

Now,

have

your

hearts

been

taken

with

it

?

you may know much

of

your

Evidences

if your

hearts

have

been

taken

with admiring thoughts

of

it

;

for

certainly

when

God

pardons

fin, he

doth

it

to

magnifie

his

grace,

and

let out

to Men and

Angels

in

the

infinitenefs

of

ir, what

his

grace

can

do to poor

fouls

;

if

this

be

Gods

end,

as

certainly

it is, then it

nwft

needs be

that thofe whom

God

pardons , he

gives fuch

grace

as

fhall caufe the foul

that

it

(hall have

admiring thoughts

of

it

;

Has

thy

foul

feen

fo

much

of

the grace

of

God,

that

it

admires at

the

great

-

nefs

and goodnefs

of

it

?

be

of

good comfort,

thy

fins

are

pardoned.

Seventhly,

The

more

affaranee

God

gives

of

pardon,

the

more

the

heart

melts before God

in mourning

for

the

fins

that

God

has

pardoned, according

to

the manifeftation

of

Gods mercy

in

A

a

pardoning,