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Goel
Xey4on.
8
C'HAP.
XVIII.
Of
the
Rules
how to
apply
the
Evidences of Pardon
of
Sin..
I
T
is a
matter
of
great
concernment to us,
totr y
whether
our
fins
are
forgiven
;
for
in
times
of
danger our
hearts
are ready
to fink
;
but the Evidence
of
this,
that our
fins
are
forgiven
will
hold
up
our
hearts
in
the
midi
of
the greateft
dangers
whatfoever
;
if
Heaven
and
Earth
fhould
meet
toge-
ther, if.I
have affurance
of
this, for
fo
it
follows,
after
David'
had
pronounc'd
him. bleffedwh9fe
fns
were
forgiven,
Verfe
6.
Surely
in
the
floods
ofgreat
waters
they
Pall
not
come
nigh
unto
him
there
may
he
floods
of
great waters,
but he
that hash
his
fins
forgiven,
God
f
all preferve
him
and
compafs
him
about
with
fangs
of
deliverance
;
but
they
that
have
their
fins
compafs
them about, fhall have
horrour
and
terrour
to
compafs
them
about
;
but
fays
David,
having
affurance
his
fins
were
par-
doned, Thou
art
my
hiding
place,
and
thou
fhalt
compafs me
about
;
therefore
if
your hearts
clofe
with thofe Evidences
given,
you may have comfort
in
the
great
water
floods,
God
will
be
a hiding
place
unto you
;
it concerns
very
much to
la-
bour to
purthis
out
of
doubt
,
and not
to
put it off
to
a
fick --
bed,
or
death-bed time
of
examination
;
but now to
thofe
Evidences
there
is
another thing,
which
is
ofgreat
concern-
ment in
this
Point,
and
that
is
to
give force
rules how to make
ufe
of
thofe
or
all
other
Evidences
that
shall
be
given
at
any
time
for
tryal
of
any
:
EfpecialIy
for
the
tryal
of
our
Rates
in
point
of
Juftification
or
Sanctification,
but
they
will
be
helpful
to the
ufe
ofany other
Evidences
whatfoever.
Firfl
is
this
(that
you
may
be
able
to apply thofe rules
of
Trial
and Evidences
given)
though
you
cannot
find
them
all,
yet
if
you
find
but any
one
of
them,
you
may
receive
comfort
from
that,
though
you
feel
not the
refl;
you
may be
affured
that
the
ref
are
there
:
Many
a
foul, many
times
hears
Evidences
of
the happy condition
in
point of pardon
of
fin
;
and
,
it may
be,
B_©
there.: