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Gojpel
km
fsion.
i8t
Meeknefs, Patience, Self
-
denyal
,
Heavenly-mindednefs and
the
like;
certainly, if
thy
faith
be
fo
high, and
thy other
graces
fo
low, thou haft much
caufe
to fear
thy
faith
is
not
right,
'tis
not
the
faith
of
Gods
Elect,
as
the Scripture
fpeaks
it
is
not
precious
faith
;
for according to
the,;
degree
you
have
of
that,
all
other
graces will
grow
;
you hope
that
your
fins
are
pardoned, How
come
you
by
it
?
the
foul
that bath
true pardon
of
fin,
hath
fetch'd
it
from
Heaven
in a
right
way,
in
Gods
own
way
;
How
is
that
?
it
is
on
this wife the
foul
that
fees
it
feif loft and
undone
through
the guilt
of
fin,
God
revealing
his infinite
riches
of
grace
in
the Gofpel
,
fuch
a
foul feeing
God
on
his
Throne,
holding out
his Son,
God
-Man
as
Mediator to
make
an
attonement,
it
by
a
mighty work
of
faith,
clofes
with that glorious way of
Reconciliation
by
the
Son, that
it
fees
God
the
Father tender to him,
and
fo
fetches
grace
out
of
the
Treafury
of
Gods
bounty
,
in
the
way
of
the
Gofpel,
in an
Evangelical way
that
was
before opened.
Ex-
amine
now,Have you fetch'd
out
your
pardon
through
the way
of
the
Gofpel,
that the
foul
by
a
mighty act of
faith
bath
been willing
to
venture it
feif
and
its
eternal
Ration
on
the
Son
of
God
?
Have
you
look'd
on
Chrift
as a
mighty Media-
tor,
as
one able
to
fave
you
?
then you
have
acted
faith
in
a
Gofpel way,
and
your
fins
are
pardoned
:
Again, Are
you
pardoned
?
then
you
are
fealed
,
that
you heard
likewife
of;
there
is
the Broad
Seal
of
Heaven
that
Ramps
the Image
of
God
upon the
foul
,
as
the
Image
of
the
King
is
on the
Seal
of
the Kingdom
;
fo
the Image
of God
, the Broad
Seal
of
Heavers
is
flamp'd
upon the foul, which
1
mention
that you may
make
ufe
of it
in
examination.
Ninthly,
Whomfoever God
pardons,
there
will
be
an
anf
wer;
able
workin
thy
foul
unto the
work of
God
in juftifying
thee
;
as in
Election
and
Vocation,
fo in
Juftification
;
How
is
that
?
thus,
that
as
God
notwithftanding
all
thy
fin,
accepts
of
thee to
his
grace and
love
;
fo
notwithftanding
all
the
trouble and
afftic`tions
that are
in
Gods
ways
,
thou
wilt
accept
of God
and
his
ways
;
he accepts
of
thy
foul not
-
withftanding
thy
fin,
thou wilt
accept of him and his
wayes
notwithftanding
all
evils and afíli&ions
that
ac-
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