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6o
Go
jel
c&ern.lJsion.
witnefs
of
the
Spirit of
God
to
tali
fie
unto thee
that
thy
fins
are
pardoned.
Now
bleffed
is
the man, whole
iniquities
are
for-
given
,
feeing
God the
Lather,
Son,
and
Holy
Ghoft
is
fo
much
in
it.
CHAP.
VIII.
Of
Pardoning Mercy
being
a
PerfeCt
Mercy.
8.Argu-
BLefred
is he whofe
iniquities are
forgiven,
for
this
mercy is
a
;spent.
perfect mercy, that
is,
where
God
doth
pardon
any
firmer,
filch
a
one
Elands as
perfe& before
God
in point
of
Jufttfication
as
Abrah'im,lfaae,'Jacob,or
any
of
the
Prophets
or
righteous
men
that
ever lived
in
the
world
:.
thou
poor
Soul,
Man
or
Woman,
Youth or Servant,ifGod
come
unto
thee,lnd
pardon
any
ofyour
fins,
thou ffandeft
as
fully juftified
as
Abraham,
Paul,
Peter, or
any
of
the
Apoilles
and
Prophets;
though
in
Sanc`lification
thou
falleft
fhort
of
them
,
yet thou
art
juftified
as
perfeftly
as
ever
they were
:
Juftification
is
an
of
that
is
done
altogether
and
at
once,
therefore
a
perfec
work
;
and
this
is
an
Argument
of
infinite
Confolation to
the
Saints
of
God,
that
the
great
bufi-
nefs
between
God
and
them
in
point
of
Juftification
is
per
-
fec`led
;
Pfal.
5
z.
7.
David
prayes
to
God
that
he
would pnr
e
him with Hyfop
and
he
fhould
be
clean
that
is,
that
he
might
be
cleanfed
by
Juftification,
by having the
guilt
of
fin
taken
from
his
Confcience by
a
renewed
aft of
pardon
;
and then
as
it
fol-
lows,
I
fhall
be
whiter' than
Snow
:
the Saints
of God
though
they
be
Sancgified,
they
are not
whiter
than the fnow
in
San-
efification,,but
in I-unification
they are whiter
than the fnow
;
no
fpct at
all in them,
Ephef. 5.
27.
Chrifl'
prefents
his
Church
unto
himfelf
without
fpot
;
in
point
of
Juftification every be-
ieving
foul
is
without
fpot
before the
Lord,
Numb. z
3.
z
i
.
Lie
bath
not beheld
iniquity in facob
that
is,
though
God
knows
there
is
iniquity
there,.
yet
he
fees
it
not to
charge
them
with
it, or
impute
it .to
them
;
all
is
done away
in
that
regard by
Juftification
:
it
is
obfervable to this purpofe
, what
we have