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Goìe!

fern

fsiora.

his

foul

unto

God,

which cannot

be

done

by

any

other

way

in

the

world,

to

have

liberty

to

pour

out

our

whole

fouls

into

his

bofoin

, is

from faith,

and comes

in

as

a

fruit

of

juftiftcation,

David

1..o'

armed

Abfalom, but

would not

let him

fie

his

face

but

Ciud

never pardons any foul,

but he gives

free liberty for

that foul, to

come

in.ohis

pretence

and

open it

felf

fully

unto

him

;

this

is a

fecond

priviledge, Pardon

of

fri

is

an inlet

to

ma-

..ny

other mercies.

Of

Pardon

of

Sin malting

all

other

Mercies

to

be

Mercies.

3.

Pardon

of

fin

is

not

only

an

inlet

to

many

other

mercies,

but it

is

fuch

-a

mercy

as

ma4es

all

other mercies

to

be

mercies,

and

without

which

no

other

mercies

would

be

mercies

;

by this

all

other

mercies are

mercies

:

when

once

a

foul

comes to

be

pardoned

,

it may look upon

all

it

bath

in

a

far

Tweeter

way

than ever

it

could before

;

by

this

he

may look upon Houle

and

Land,

Wife

and

Children,

Eftate

and Friends, he may look

upon

thefe

as

mercies indeed

;

Why

?

for

he has

a

pardon,

his

fins

are

pardoned.

As

a

man fuppofing he

is

charged,

found

guilty,

and condemned, having

a

fair

houle,

rich furniture,

.tweet yoak

-

fellow and

children,

and

all things

he could

delire ;

but

fayes

he,

What

are

all thefe

to

teeing

I

am

a

condemned

-man

?

Well,

he goes

and

gets

a

par

on

unexpec`}edly,

and

now

he

returns to

his

Houle,

Wife

and

Relations again,

and all

are

tweet unto

h

im,whenhe

in

joyes them with

apardon,he

looks

up-

on

them wi:h

another manner

of

eye

than he did before. Thus

there

is

this difference between

the enjoyment

of

outward

com-

forts

in

this

world

when

fin

is

pardoned,

and

before it

was

par-

'cloned

;

thou

haft

Houles

and

Land,

Tweet

Yoak-

fellow,

and

Children,

trading

at

Sea

and

Land,

and all

things thou

canft

de-

fire

but

what

is

all

this

to thee, while guilt

of

fin

lyes

grating

on

thy

Confcience

?

Well,

God

comes

into thee with pardon-

ing

mercy,

and takes

away thy fin, the guilt

of

which lay

corro-

ding

on thy Confcience,

then

thou

maift loßk

upon

thy

Eftate,

Wife,

Children,

and

all

thy

comings

in

to

Lhee,

as

coming

from

the

fame

eternal

Fountain

of Gods

eternal

to

e,that

Jefus

Chrift

liimfelf

came

from

; this

is

a

mighty Argument to perfwade

men

to