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Eighthly,
Another
note
is
this,
that
according
to
the
degree
of
pardon
offin,
fo all other
graces
grow
;
the knowledge
and
affurance
of
Gods
love
in
Chrift
in
the pardon
of
fin,
it
caufes
all
other
graces to
grow
proportionably
,
as
you
have it
in
Ephef.
3.
19. about the knowledge
of
the
love
of
God
in
Chrift
;
mark the
connetlion,
he
deliires
That
they
might
com-
prebend tvith
all
Saints
what
is
the
height
,and
depth, &c.
and
to
l_tow
the
love
of
Chrift
which
paffeth knowledge,
and
be
filled
with
all
the
fulnefs
of
God;
What
is
the
love
of Chrift
?
the
love
of
Chrift
is
the
procuring
caufe
dale
forgivenefs of
tin
be-
fore
God
the
Father_ ;
and
when
you know this
,
this will
fill
you with
all
the
fulnefs
of
God
:
Mark,
fir
it
It
brings
God
in
to
the
foul
;
And
fecòndly, Fills
the foul
with
God
;
And
thirdly,
Fills
the
foul with
the
fulnefs
of
God
;
And
fourthly,
Fills
the
foul
with
all the
fulnefs
of
God ;
when
you
come
to
know
the
love
of
God
in
Chrift, if
any
thing
in
the
world
will
fill
the
foul
with
all
the
fulnefs
of God,
this will
:
many
will
fay, they
hope
their
fins
are
pardoned
;
Do
you
fo
?
then you
know
the
love
of
God
in
Chrifl
;
for
this
is
a
fpecial
.
work
of
the
love
of
God
in Chrift
;
to pardon
fin ;
now
the
Apof
ie fays
,
when you come to know
this,
you
come
to
be
filled
with
all
the
fLlncfs
of
God;
What
is
the
fulnefs
of
God
?
as
faith increafes with
the
refl of
the graces,
fo
you
grow
fuller
and
fuller
in
Gods
fulnefs ;
and
fo
you
grow
more
into
a
fuller
affurance
of
pardon
of
fin
:
now the
foul
can
fay,
as
I
find
more
affurance
of
the
love
of
God
in his
Son
-,
fo
I
find
my foul
more filled
with
this grace
of
the
fulnefs
of God.
Alas, when
I
was
under the
Law,
God
and
I
were ftrangers
I
felt
little
of God
in
me
;
but now
I
begin
to
know
the love
of
God
in
the
Gofp;l
,I
begin to have my
foul
filled with the
fulnefs
of God,
not with chaff
and drofs and filthy
things
which
heretofore my thoughts, will,
and
affeaions
were
filled
withal
;
but
now
'Lis
otherwife with
me
,
my
foul
is
now
filled
with
all
the
fulnefs
of
God
;
certainly that
foul
that
can
fay
thus,
may well go
away
with
that word
of
Chrift
fpoken
to
the
woman,
Luke
7.5
o.
Go
in
peace,
thy
fai
h
hath
Plied
thee.
Rom.S.
r.
The
Apoftle
_fpeaks
of
pardon of
fn ,
being juflified
by
Faith,we
have
peace
with
God
,
that,
is,
God
A
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