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Gofpel
kmif
siora.
arfiftions,
I
would put this to them
;
either they are pardoned,
or
not pardoned
:
if
ye
are pardoned, why
are ye
fo
troubled
?
if
ye
are not
pardoned, then
you had
need
to fpend the ftrength
of
,your
fpirits by waving
your
grief
for affliftions
to
feek
par-
don
of your
fins.
Secondly, Pardon
of
fn
will
make
afliEtions
cafe
;
becaufe the
foul
may
be
cffured
that
the
evil of
afflation
is
gone
;
he
that
has
his
fin
pardoned may
be
affured,that
there can nothing befall
him
in
this world, but
that
if
he
know
all,he
himfelf
would
be
willing
with
all his
heart
it
f
hould
be
fo
:
And
is
not this
a
bleffed
condi-
tion for any man,
while he
lives
here
in
this
world,
in
which
there
is
abundance
of
evil
, yet to
be in
fuch
a
condition
as
that
we (hall
certainly know
,
that
there
(hall nothing
befall
us as
long
as
we
live in
this
world,
but
that,
which
if
we
knew
all,
we
our
felves
would
chufe
it,
and-account
it
to
be
a
better
condition than
any
other
?
this
is
a
bleffed
eftate,
to
be in
fuch
a
condition
as
this is,
for
God
to teftifie from Heaven unto
us,
that
it (hall not
be in
the
power
of
any
creature
in
the
world
to
do us
any
hurt
;
for certainly
fo
it
is
when
once
a
man
or
wo-
man
is
juftified,
God
does
as
much
as
fpeak
from
Heaven to
that poor
foul
;
Paying,
Soul now
you
are
fafe, be
certainly
af-
fured that there
is
no
creature
in
all
the
world
can do
you
any
hurt, Pial. 116. 7.
thou main fay
as
David
there, Return
unto
thy
ref
O my
f
oul,
for
the
Lord
bath dealt
bountifully
with
thee
God
has
pardoned
thy
fin, and
delivered
thee
from
death
;
and
now
my
foul
return
unto thy
refl
:
the
word
tranflated
ref
in
the
Original
is
plural, return
unto
thy
refs
;
there
are
refts
enough
for
a
foul
whom
God
bath delivered
and
pardoned,
all
afilifti-
ons
to
him are but
as
the
Viper
on
Paul's
hand that he
may
(hake
off,
they
will
do him
no
hurt
;
the fling
of
death
is
fin,
and the
fling
of
affíic`fions
is
that
they are
the
beginners
of
death
:
but
to
one
that
has
his
fin
taken away, the
property
of
aflliftion
is
altered
;
they
come not as
as
of
revenging Juftice,
but
as
effeas
of
Love and
Mercy
:
the Principle from
whence
they come
,
and
the end
to which
they
tend
is
differenced
from
wnat
it was
before ; when Trefpaffes
are forgiven, Deliverance
from
Evil
will follow
after,as
it
is
in
the Lards
Prayer. True,
as
you
heard before
in
the former
point,
If
once we come
to-,
have
;