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Gojpel
hvenzfsion,
49
from
the
gates
of Hell
it
feif.
Be
of
good comfort
oh
foul, thy
fns
are forgiven
thee,':
fa.
ß}.o.2.
Speal
you
comfortably
to
her,
fe
her
iniquities are
pardoned
:
Godcalls to
comfort
her
when
h
iniquities are pardoned
,
this
is
the foundation
of
all
true
cum
fort
:
if
you lay any
other
foundation to build
your comforts
on, certainly
that building
will
totter
and come
to
nothing,
if
this
-be
not the foundation
:
You would
fain
have
comfort,
and
you
are
every
onelooking
out
for comfort
. and indeed
it is
as
natural.f;r
the
foul
of
man
to
fee k
for
comfort
,
as
it
is
for
the
fire to
burn
:
th
:re's
no
man but
would
fain
have
co-nfort
;
now look, to
the foundation,
if
you would
not
have
the build-
ing
totter,
lava
good foundation
Manylay
the
foundation
o
r
their
comforts
in
their
fins
,
and
others
in
the creatures
;
but
thou muft muft lay
it
in
the pardon
of
thy
f
n:
in
'
he
free
grace
of
God
juffifying thy
foul,
and
that
building
will
hold
;
lay it
there
and
thou (halt
be
comfor.'ted
here
and
for
e
""er
hereafter.
And
thus
we
shave
done with
that
Particular
,
That Pardon of
Sin
is a
great
mercy,
becaufe
it
is
a
foundation
and
inlet to
many
other
mercies
:
Bleffed
is
the
man
that
ha
-b
his
-iniquities
for
-
given,
that hath
fuch
a
grand
mercy,
upon whiéh
many
other
mercies
follow.
CHAP.
V.
Of
Pardoning Mercy
paffing
through
a
great
many
difficulties.
Le
f
jed
is
the
man
that
hath
his
fns
forgiven;
for
indeed,it
is
a
mercy
that
pages
through
many dtfficulties before
it
comes
to
the
foul;
and
that that
pafl'eth
through
many difficulties
is
ftrong
and,great indeed,
and
therefore
makes
the man
bleffed,
becaufe
it
is
grace that
doth
pats
through
many
difficulties
it
is
an
argument
of
a
great deal of ftrength
of
grace,
when
grace
fhall pafs
through
many
difculties
;
as
it
is an
argument
of
the
great ftrength
of
fin, when
it
paflles
through
many
¿lifñ-
culties
to bring
forth
; a
foul
being fet upon fin,
there
"lies
a
H
great
s.
Argu-
ment.