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4
Go
el
Peìni
f
Sion.
wifdor
and
the councils
of
my will,have
been
a
contriving from
all
eternity,
to
bring
about
thy
pardon with
my own
honour,
and
here
it
is
for thee,
take
it
as a
fruit
of
my eternal
Councils
therefore
Bleffed is the
man
whofe
iniquities are
forgiven,
be-
raufe
filch
purpoCes
have been
taken
up in
Gods
eternal
Councils
to
effect
it.
CHAP.
VIL.
Of
Pardoning Mercy,
being
a
work
that
all the
three
Perfons in
the
Trinity
are
ingaged
in.
7
Argu-
pLeffed
is the
man
whole
Iniquities
are
forgiven,
becaufe
u
ment.
there
is no
one
thing
hath taken
up
the
heart of
God more
than
this
;
fo
this
is
a
work
that
all
the three Perfons
in
theTri-
nity are ingaged
in nothing
more, God
the
Father,
Son, and
Holy
Ghoft;
as
to inftance
:
I.
For
God
the
Father,
in
Ifa.
43.
25.
he
challengeth this
as
his
own
glory,
I
even
I
am
he
that
blotteth
out
thy
tranfgre
Bons
for
my
Names
fake, ,
and will
not remember thy
fins;
it
is
his
Prerogative,
I
am
he,
God glories
in it
as a
peculiar, belonging
to
none but
himfeif, Exod.3
3.18.
Mofes defired
to
fee
the
glory
of God,
and
God promifed
to make all his
goodnefs
pal
before
him
:
and
Exod.
34.
6.
he
proclaimed,
The
Lord,the
Lord
God,
merciful
andgracious,
long
fuffering,
and
abundant
in
goodnefs
and
truth}
eeping mercy
for
thoufands ; and
then
to
the point
in
hand,
forgiving
iniquity,tranfg
re
faon
andfin,here's
the
glory
of
.God
;
Would
you have
a
demonftration indeed,that Gods heart
was fet upon this
as
the greateft
work
that
ever was
done?
take
ii
in
this, that
the
very thoughts
of effefing
this
by
the death
of
his
,own Son,madeG
od
very
well
pleas
'd
&
delighted with
his
death;
furely then
his
heart
was much
fet upon
it
;
for
rather
than he
would not
effect
it,
he
would
part with
his
own Son
:
Never
was
there
fuch
a
hideous
thing
as
the
death
of
the
Son
of God
;
and
therefore
ifthere
were
any
delight
to
be
taken
in
it,
&
that God
.the
Fatherlook
delight in
it
;
there
muff
be
force
great thing
to
fw
e
eten