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Go
fpel
12em
Is.
ob,eEt.
Anfw.
layes
in
a
pardon,
and
Chrift
hath
purchas'd
it
for
ùs,
for
all
fins
va
to
come
:
'tis
like
a
Son
running
into
arrears,
his
Father
comes and paves his debts
;
but becaufe
h-2
fees his Son will
run
further
into
arrears,
he
layes
in
much
as
will
pay
all
for time
to
come,
that
if
he
run
into
arrears
he
'gall
t.ot
be
cafe
into
Pri-
fun
:
juft
fo
it
is
with
God,
God
pardons
all
our
fins
at
firft,and
then
he layes up
a
Pardon,
that
if
we
run
into
arrears
we Mall
not lye
in
Prifon to
be
condemned and fuller for
them. This
is
a
great mvfterie,and they that
teach
otherwife
rob
the
people
cf
God
of
abundance
of
comfort
that'otherwife they
might
have,
were
this
Truth
made
clearly known unto them.
Is not
this Do
[trine
a
Do
[brine
of
Liberty
,
If
they
have
knowledge
that
God when
he
pardons
for
what
fins are paft,
and
layes
in a Pardon
for
what
fns
are
yet
to come
;
May
not People
hence
take,
liberty
to
fin
?
May
not they
fay, that
though
they
do
fin, yet
there
is
a
Pardon
laid
in
before
hand
for
them
?
Here
thou
fpeakeft
as
one
that
underftands not
the
grace
of
the
Gofpel that
thus objeeaeft,
it
is
another
manner
of
thing
than thou
art
aware
of
there
is
not
that malignity
in
the grace
of
the
Gofpel
to caufe fuch
effes
in
the hearts
of
believers..
Luther
compares.fin to Lime,
and
the Law
to
Water,that
makes
the
Lime
hotter
;
but
the grace.of the Gofpel
fayes
he
is
like
to
Oyl,
and
Oyl
will quench Lime,but
Water
will not
;
fo
the
Oyl
of
the Gofpel will quench the
fins
of
men
;
and
certainly the
more there
is
of
the
grace
of
Gud
revealed
in
the
Gofpel,
the
more the
Tufts
remaining
in
the
heart
of
a
believer
come
to
be
quenched
;
this
is
an
evident
Argument
of
the
great
difference
between
the
mercy
of
God
revealed
in
the
Gofpel,
and receiv-
ed by
faith
;
and
that which
is
received
only
in
a
natural
way
:
you
that
are unbelievers,
and receive
the
Gofpel only
in
a
na-
tural
way,
your
Tufts
may
be
nourifhed,
and you may take
li-
berty
för
wickednefs
:
But
if
once you come
to
receive
the
mercy
ofGod
in
and
through
Chrift
Jefus,
then
that
mercy
will
be
the greateft oppofer
of thy
tuffs
and fin,
as
any
thing
can be
in
the world
;
certainly,
thou
knoweft not the
work
of
God
in
Chrift
forgiving
fin,
that
reafoneft
thus
;
I'hall
[hew you plain-
ly, The
knowledge
of
the great
work
of
the
Propitiation by
Chrift,
brings the
foul
into
a
hatred
of
all
fin, and
is
no not.-
rifher