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Gofpel
Remif
sion.
upon them,
and
ilirs
the Confcience and
layes
the guilt
of
fin
home
upon it
:
how long
are they before they
can have
any
affurance
of
pardon
?
and
in
juft judgement
it
is
fo,
becaufe
they
had
flight
thoughts before
of
the
pardon of
fin.
I
remem-
ber
it
is
ftoried
of
Pornpey,when
one
of
his
Captains
came
to
him,
and
told
him
he
warted
men
;
fayes
he,
l
can but flarnp
my
foot
upon
the
ground and bring
forth
fo many men
prefently
;
but
when
the Enemy
carne,
this Captain
came to
him
again,and
faid,
where's your
men
now
?
but then he could not
get
them when
he was
in
diftrefs
and had
great
need
of them.
As
many
think
they
can
do
great
things
with
a
word
fpeaking,
as
if
all
muff
be
at
their
beck
prefently,
but
when they
come
to
ir,
they
fail
and find
it
otherwífe
;
fo
many make
it
a
(mall
matter to get
pardon
offin,they
think to do
it
with
a
Lord
ha:
e
mercy
upon
us,
at
their
death -bed,
or
the like
;
but
when they
come
to
it
in-
deed, God
makes
them to
know,
It
is
the
greatefl
bufinefs
that
ever
they
had
to do
in
all
their
lives
;
there's
nothing that
God
is
fo
jealous
of
as
his
honor,
and fpecially about
this
great work,
and
certainly, were
it
not that
God
is
very
jealous
of
his
ho-
nour,
and would
cure
the
flight
thoughts that
men have
of
this
great work
;
there
needs never
be
fo much humiliation
and
workings
of
the
fpirit
of
bondage
;
and
certainly,
did we
but
know the greatnefs
of
this
work,
how would
fanners
fnatch at
any opportunity or hint
of
Gods
favour
appearing
to them
?
they
would do
as
the
fervants
of
Benhadad,
i
King.2o.3
3.
diligently
obferve
if
any
thing
would
come
from
him,
and
haftily catch
at
it,
they watched that
if
any
thing
did come
from him, that
did
make any way
to that which
they fought
after,
and
did
haftily
catch
at it
;
To, did
a
foul
underftand
the
pardon of fin,
what
a
great work
it
is,
he would
be
fo
far from having flight thoughts
of
it, that
he
would
come cloathed
in
Sackcloth,
and
every
Sermon would
be
watching
and
enquiring
,
what
bath
God
fpoke any
word
to
my
foul
or
no
?
And
if
any
word
fall
from
a
Minifter
concerning this
great
bufinefs, fuch
a
foul
would catch
greedily
at-it,
and
lofe no
opportunity
to embrace
it. Plat. 32.
is
very
remarkable
to this
purpofe,
David
found
it a
very
hard thing
to get
pardon
of
his own
fin ,
ver.
4.
and he
ac-
knowledged
it,
and
God
forgave
him, verf.
5.
what
follows?
verf.