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Golpel
Xemif
sion.
will ,let thoufand thoufands
of
others perifh eternally, to
be
byt
as a
black
ground for that glorious
work,
that
I
intend to
manifeft
in
the
riches
of
my grace
in
Chrift
in
the pardoning
of
their
fin
:
thus you
fee
it is
a
peculiar
mercy,
and
therefore
blared
are they that
have
their
iniquities forgiven
;
for
it
is
a
mercy
that
is
peculiar
to
them
only.
Oh
how
ought
they
to
biefs
God;
that
he
bath
calkd them
out
of
the
multitude,
when
he has
left others to the fway
of
their
own carnal fottifh
and
malicious
hearts
to
go
on
againft the
wayes
of
grace
;
and
all
becaufe
he
will
have
mercy
on whGm
he
will
have
mc<cy.
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CHAP.
XII.
Of
the Poffibility
of
Pardoning Mercy,
bow
it
would
be
prifed
by
poor Souls now
under
wrath.
z
.
Ar-
Vrther,.Bleffcd
is he
that
bath
his
iniquities
forgiven
,becaufe
gumeut.
the
very
pof
ibility
of it
to
thoufands
of
creatures
now
under
wrath
would
be
prifèd
more,
than
ten thoufand worlds, to
have
but
a
poflibility
ofit
upon any terms
;
thofe
that are now
damn'd
in
Hell,
and
fee
the ftroaks
of
Gods
dreadful
wrath
againft them
for
their
fin,
that are
now
-
fwallowed
up in the
gulf
of
mifery
and
condemnation
;
if
they might
have but
any poflibility
to
have
their
fins
pardoned
;
how
would
they prife
it ,
if
fuch a
Meffenger
were
fent
from
God
to Hell-gates to call
there
and
to
cry out,Oye
damned
fpirits,behold
a
meffage
from
theAlmigh-
ty
;
I
come
unto you
from
him,
and
this
is the
?mirage
to
let
you
now,rhat
there
is
a
poffibility
upon
fame terms
(that
God
will
re-
quire)that
yourfins
may
be
pardoned,
and
you
delivered from that
dreadful wrath
you
now
lye
under
?
How
would
the damned
fpi-
rits
fing and
rejoyce,
and
look about them
to
attend
this
mef-
fage
?
What
acclamations would
there
be in
Hell
in
the midft
of
thofe
fiery
flames
?
What
holding up-of
hands
and
rejoycing
urould
there
be
to hear
of
fuch
a
thing,
that there
is
a
poffibi-
lity
on
any
terms
?
they
would not Rand
to enquire
what
the
terms
were, whether hard
or
-eafie
.,
they
would anfwer,
let
them