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el
12ernision.
goodnefs may
flow
forth'plentifully
and
[weedy to the
foul,
bo-.
dy
and ftate
;
yea,to
all
that b.longs to
a
believer
:
You
may.
con-
ceive
Gods
mercy
to
be
as an
infinite
fcream
of
goodnefs
running
with
a
full
current towards
his
creatures
;
for God delights
in
the Communication
of
himfeif to
his
creatures
:
But
now
mans
fin
made
a
dam,
and flopt the pipe
that not
one
drop
of mercy
could come
iòrth,
not
a
drop
of
all
that
mercy
that
in
the
eternal,
purpofe
of
God
he
Bath
appointed
in
time
shall
come
forth
to
fuch and
fuch
a
poor
creature
;
but
when
he
comes to
Pardon
and
Juftitication,
he
pills
out
the plug,
and
pulls
up
the
flood
-gates
and iluces, and then
mercies come flowing
in
amain
;
when
fin
is
pardoned,
then the
full fireams
of
all the
mercies
in
the
Covenant
cf
grace come flowing into
the
foul.
Well
then,
if it
be
thus, that
pardon
of
fin
is
an
inlet
to
other mercies;
then
he
that bath
his
fin
pardoned
is a
very
bleffed
man.
I
fhaff
.
open
this;
-hat
Pardon
of
Sin
is
the foundation
to,
and opens
the
fluce
to
set
in
all
other
mercies, Ter.
3i.
31.
Behold
;
the
dayes
come
that
I
will
make
a
new
Covenant
with
the
honfe
of
Ifrael;
and
the
houfe
of
Judah
:
here
God
opens his
goodness,
and
tells them he will make
a
new
Covenant, not
like
that
he
made
with their
fathers,
verfe
32.But
this fhall
be
the Covenant,..
verfe
33.
and he inftances
in
force
particulars,
I
will put
my
Larn
into
their
inward parts,
and write
it
in their hearts,
and
they
f
hall
teach
no
more
"every
man
his
neighbour,
and
every man his
brother
faying,
k
know
the
Lord,
for
they
(hall all
know
me,
&c.
But what
is
the foundation
of
all
this
?
at the
end
of
the
34..
For
I
will
forgive their iniquity, and
remember
t?eir
fin
no
more.
I
will
maize
a
new
Covenant with them, and, put
my
Law into
their
inwardparts,
and
they
(hall all
know
me
;
I
will
come
in
with
all
my
mercies
and blef
ings, Illumination
and
Sanctification
he mentions thefe inftead
of
the
reft
,
as
in
a
grant
of
great
things fame particulars are mentioned
;
but then
he
comes in
with
a
general
;
For
'will
forgive their
iniquity, and
remember
'their
fin
no
more
:
As
if
it
fhould
be
faid,
Why,
Lord wilt
thou
come in
thus
to thy
people
in fuch
an
abundant.
way
of
mercy more than
formerly,
and let
in
thefe
graces
of thy
Co-
venant
?
Why
?
here
is
the ground
of
all
;
for
I
will
forgive
their iniquity
:
fo
that
forgivenefs
of
iniquity
is
the
fpecial
E
3
inlet.