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q.
Goff
el
A,ernij
sion.
s;
had
other things,
and
you quieted
your hearts with
them
;
and
why
not
now, were
not the
y
mercies
?
but
I
know not
whether
they
were
out
of
love
or hatred
;
Well,
yet you
quieted
your
hearts with them;and now
they are
all
going, Do
you
now
think
it
a fit
time to
cry for
mercy?
Oh
how
infinitely waft thou mifta-
"ken,
that
thou (Wit
not
cry for mercy
before
!
thou rhinke
if
it
now
a fit
time to
cry for mercy
;
why?
thou
hadit
no mercy that
thou couldit take
the
comfort
of
as
a
mercy,
unlefs
thy
fins
were
pardoned
;
and
therefore thou haft
now
caufè
to
cry
tor
pardon
:
when lìckneff comes,
and
God
takes
away this
and the
other mercy,
thou
thinkrft
thou
art
left
naked
;
if
you
knew
all,
you
are naked now
:
and
therefore
would you
live
a
com-
fortable
life
in
this
world,
and have
yóur
Houfe,
k
Late,
and
all
Relations
mercies
to you
;
never
be
at
reft
till
you
have
got
your
fins
pardoned
and
forgiven
;
this
confidered, might
be
a
mighty
argument
and means
to draw
the
hearts
of
men to
get
pardon,that
all
their
outward things
might
be
fweetned to
them.
2.
If
all
outward
good
be
not
a
mercy unlefs
fn
be
pardoned,
then what
good
wilt
thou or any
one
get
by
the
increaf
of
fn?
thou
thinkeft it to
be
a
good
;
Why
?
all
thou
haft
now
is
not
a
good,is
not
a
mercy
;
and
deft
thou think
to get
good by the in-
creafe
of
fin
?
When
a temptation
comes
to
draw
thee
to fin,
think thus, I
have
heard
this
day that
all
I
have
is
not
a
mercy
unlefs
my
fin
be
pardoned,
and Therefore
I
can
never
get
Any
mercy
by the
increafe
of
fin
:
Certainly
did men and
women
underftand
themfelves
,
they
would
eafily
anfwer
the Devil by
.this
kind
of
reafoning.
Of
'Pardon
of
Sin
making
all
ifiiiliont
eafie
to
be
born.
q.
Where
ever
fin
is
pardoned,there
follows
this
,that
any
thing
that
befals
that
man or
woman
is very
eafie
to
be
born
;
an
eafie
matter
it
is
for any
one
that bath
his
fin
pardoned
to
bear
any af-
flieion,&
this
is
a great
blefl'tdnefs
;
or
rather
take
it
thus,
That
eitherfuck a
one
may
be
affured,that af}litions
fhall
be
removed,
sr
otherwife made
eafie
to
be
born
;
for pardon
of
fin
delivers
us
fr6rñ
abundance
of
afflictions
that otherwife might
befall
us
in
this
world
;
though
it
is
true,
God
layes many
afietions
on his
people