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great

many

difficulties in

the way, yet

luft

to

that

fin

being

tong

,

it will

break

through

all

difficulties

to

get to it

;

fo in

mercy,

when

God

comes

with mercy

to forgive

a

foul

, this

mercy

of

God

must

go

through

abundance

of

difficulties before

it

gets

to

you, which argues

it

to

be

wonderful

ftrong

mercy,

and

therefore

makes

him

bleffed

that partakes

of

it.

When

.

God

made

the

World,

it was done with

a

word

fpeaking, God

laid,

Let

there

be

light, and

there

was

light

:

But when

God

comes to pardon

a

finner,

Heaven and

Earth

muff

be

moved

;

there

muft

be

a

greater work

of

God

in

pardoning

of

a

finner,

than

in

making

of

the

world

certainly

the

work

is

greater,

and

palfes

through

more difficulties.

As,

Firft, All

the

wrongs

that

ever

thou

hall

done to

God

Hand

betwixt

thee

and pardon;never

did

any

man

in

the world wrong

another

man

as

thou haft wronged

God

:

How

fin

wrongs God

has

in

part

been

held

forth

to

you,

in

the

evil

of

fin,

and

how

contrary

fin

is

to the infinite holinefs

of God, yet

mercy breaks

through that,

yea,

above

all,that great

and-difficult

work

of

the

fatisfying the

infinite juftice

of God,

yet mercy breaks

through

that,

and

there

Rands

in

that.

i.

This

difculty,that

before

thouranfl

be

pardoned,God

muff

be

made

Man,

and

yet

mull

remain

the

fame

God

he

was

before

;

thou

-cryeft

for pardon

of

fin, or thon

art

undone

;

fuppofe

now,

that Gods

bowels

of

mercy did

even

yearn towards

thee

for

to

pardon

thy

fin,

yet

before this

is

done

there

muft

be

this

great work

done

;

that

God

muff

be

made man, and yet remain

the

fame

God

he

was

before

here

is

a

mighty

difficult

work,

a

greater

work

than

making

of

the

world,

and

yet

mercy

breaks

through

this.

2.

Here's

this

flands

between

fin

and

pardon,

That

when

God

is

made

Man,

he muff

dye

and

be

made

a.eurfe

;

and

not

only fo,

but

God

the

Father

muft

do

it;

he muft

take

his

own

Son and

flab

him

for thee,

he

muff

himfelf

take

him

and

put him to death,

and

himfelf

mutt

pour

out his

wrath

upon

his

own

Son, before

thy

fins

can

be

pardoned..

Now

that

God

the Fatherfhould take,

his own Son,

the

Son

of

his

delight,

flabhim

t9

the

heart,

and

himfelf

put

him to death,

this

is

a

mighty

great

work

;

and

yet

this

muff.be_done

before

thou canft

be

pardoned.

.

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