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4
8
Go!pel
Xe?aiifsiori.
in
our own
particular
perlons
,
as
before
we
were
in
Chrift
as
a
common perfon
:
Now
Chrift
is
juftified
firft,
and
acquitted
from
all
our
fins, and this
acquittance
is
made
the ground of
his
challenge to
all
his
Adverfaries
in
the
world,
though the Prince
of
Devils
come with
all
his
power
:
yet
layes
Chrift,
he is
near
that
jufl'ifies
me,and
he
will make
my
face
as
a
flint,
it
is
God that
acquits me,
who
is
my
Adverfary
?
let him
come
near
:
Oh
its
a
bl.
fled
thing
when thou haft
got the p rdon of thy
fin
!
thou
needeft
not
care
for
all
the
reproaches
the
world
can
call upon
thee;
thou
m.ift
go
up
and down
,
and challenge any
in
the
world
to
come in
againft
thee,
i
Cor.
4.
3.
I
pafs not
for
mans
judgement,
he
that îudgeth
me
is the
Lord
;
the
word tranfated
judgement,
in
the
Greek
it
is
mans day
:
Man has
his
day here,
and he thinks to
weary
out
the People
of
God
;
why
fayes
Paul,
I
pals
not for
mans
day,
he that hath
the
fupream judgement
in
his
hands,
he
bath
acquitted
me,
and
I
am well
enough.
Of
the
Foundation
of
Eternal
Life
laid
in Pardoning
Mercy.
'8.
Bleffed is
the
man
that
.barb his
iniquities
forgiven
;
for
this is
the
foundation
of
eternal
life
;
whoever hath this
mercy,
'bath
a
certain pledge
put into
his
hands
ofeternal life,Rom.8.3o.
Whom he
predef
inated,them
he
called
:
whom he
called, them
he
juftified
:
and
whom
be
jufl
:lied, them
he
glorified
:
thou who
art
juffified,
and
haft
thy
fin
pardoned, thou (halt certainly
be
glo-
rified
:
A
Prince
may
pardon
a
man,
but
he
cannot
afire
him
of
eternal life,
thoughlie
give
him
his
natural
life
:
But
God
if
he
pardon,
he makes
it known to that
foul
that
he
fliall
live
eternally
with
him
in
glory
:
Oh
bleffed
is
he
then
that hath
his
ipiquities forgiven
,
for
this
is a
pledge unto him
of eternal
life.
Of
Pardon
of
Sin
being the
bottome
of
all
true
Comfort.
9.
Blef
ed
is
he
that
bath
his
fin
pardoned
;
for
pardon
of
finis
the
very
bottom
of
alltrue
comfort:Be
ofgood comfort your
fns
are
forgiven
;
if Chrift
fpeak but
this
word
to
a
foul, though
he
be
'liver
fo much
deje&ed, it
is
enough
to
raife any
drooping
foul
from