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Goffiel
Remáfsion.
,conciled
by
the death
of
his
Son
;
when
we
were Enemies,and
had
bate
hearts
full
of
enmity againft
God, yet
then
Chrift
dyed to
reconcile
us
unto
God:
thou mayeff
then
venture
to come
to him
for pardon ,
and it
is
no
prefumption, though thou
feel
no
changein thy fell,
yet he pardons that thou mayeíi
be
changed
;
now here
is a
glorious work
of
God
in
pardoning
a
firmer,
that
God
fhould
pardon,
juffifie, and
reconcile
us
when we
were
Enemies to him
;
here
is
a
glorious
work
of
God for
a
firmer
to
be
juftified
and
reconciled,
and
yet when the
firmer was an
Ene-
my unto hiin.
Of
the eleventh
Myfterie,
God
himfelf
purchafes
the
Pardon.
I
r
.
When
God
pardons a
f
nner,
he
himfelf
is_
fa'
to purchafe
the
pardon,
and this
is
different
from the
manner
of
pardons
among
men
A
Prince pardons
a
maltfiéfor,but
the
Prince
him-
felfdoth not
purchafe
the pardon
; and
if
one have offended
ycu,
you pardon the offender
:
but
you
that are
offended do
not pur-
chafe
a
pardon
for the
offender
;
pollible
force
friend may
come
and
purchafe
a
pardon
at
the Kings
hands for
an
offender,
but the King
himfelf doth
not purchafe
it
yet
thus
'ir
is
with
God
:
God
loth
not
pardon
any
one
fin,
but
it
colts
God him-
felf
dear
before he gets
it
;
therefore
it
is
not
fuch
a
flight
thing
to
be
pardoned
;
you
muff
not
think
to
go
to
God
and
cry
mercy,
and
that
he will pardon you
;
thus in
a
natural
way
God
never
pardons
fin
:
but
it
toffs
God
dear,
yea,that
which
is
more
Virorth
than
all
the
world
;
if
that
could.
have
done it,
God
would
rather
have diffolved Heaven
and
Earth,
than have given
that
that
he did
give
;
What
was
that
?
It
was
the
blood
of
his
own
Son
:
God
gave him up
tos
death
for
the
fin
ofmankind
and
for the purehafing
a
pardon
for
man
:
But force
may
fay,
What
need
God
have
purchafl
a
pardon
for
man
?
Could
he
not
have
forgiven
him
by
bis
abfolute
Preros-ative
?
I
anfwer,
there
was
need,
becaufe
of
the
fatisfac`fion
of tuftice,he
did
purchafe
it
out
of
the
hands
of
Juftice
;
God
was fain
to
lay
down
a
price
to
Tuffice,before he
himfelf
could
pardon
one
fin
:
Juftice
muff
be fatisfied
before
he
could give
out
one
pardon
:
Well,
take
all thefe
together
,
Chrift
muff
be
our
Surety,
take the debt
s
upon