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Gold
sion.
me
from
the
leafs
to
thegreatefl
;
you little
ones
and
young
ones,
if God
pleafe
ro
bring you
to
Chrift,
and
pardon your
fin,
a
glorious light
(hall
come into
your
fouls:
God
will
Phew
himfelf
irk
a
glorious manner to
you, there
fhall
be
another
manner
of
light
íhine into
your hearts
than
ever
before
;
the
myfi:eries
of
God
will be
opened to you
, and
you
fhall
underftand more
than many
of
your fathers, who
have
not
had this
mercy
to
be
rightly
acquainted with
the Juftification
ofa
(inner
;
and
there-
fore you young ones,that
much deftre
knowledge, the
main
thing
to
be
acquainted with,'
is
this
great
Doftrine of
Juftification
and
pardon
of
fin
;
as
Luther
faid,Thres
things, Prayer,
Meditation
and
Tempt
ationsmalq a Divine
;
fo
I fay,
the
right
knowledge.
of
Juftification
makes
a
Chriftian,
and
they
that
have not a
clear
knowledge
in
this
point, do
but bungle and
are
extream weak
in
all
o
+
her
points
of
Religion
;
but when once
the
foul comes
to
be
juftified,what
a
glorious light
is
let
into the
foul,
as
you
all
know, that
have been made
partakers
of
this
grace
?
And
you
young ones,you
may come
to
have
fin
pardoned
as
well
as
others,.
and
to
have
the knowledge
of
the myfteries
of
God
revealed
un-
to you,
i oh.2.
i
2.compared with the
i
3.
I
write unto
you
little
Children,becaufe your fias are
forgiven
for
his
Name
fake;
even
little children,
I
write
to
you, your
fins
are forgiven
:
oh
it
is a
happy thing
for young children
to have faith
wrought
in
them,
and to have
their
fins
forgiven them
betimes! and
then in
ver.
i
3.
I
write
unto
you
little
Children,
becaufe you
have
known
the
Father;
Oh
what
an
admirable
light
fprings up
in
the
fouls
of
little Children
when
their
fins.are
pardoned
!
they
come
to
the
knowledge
of
the
Father
:
and this
is
the reafon
.why
many
great
and
learned
men ,
that
are
men
of
excel-
lent underftanding
in
the
knowledge
of
natural
things,
are
not
acquainted
with the myfteries
of
godlinefs,
and
think
but meanly
of
them
;
'marvel
not
at it
,
for
the know-
ledge of the myfteries
of
godlinefs
,
comes in
by pardon
of
fin
;
when
God
pardons
fin
and
;unifies
a
foul
by faith in
Chrift
, then
God
opens the
Covenant
,
and
all
the
glori-
ous myfteries
of
it
to
fuch a foul
:
A
Prince
reveals
not
the
fecrets
of
State
to
a
Traytor
that
lyes tinder bolts and
chains
;
but
if
a
Prince
pleafe
to pardon
him,
and knock
off
his