714 Chap. 7:... An Expofition upon the BookofJ p B. Vert. 2s bis Son ; He did not fpare him the debt ; that is , he neither for- gave the whole, nor compounded with him to take half, ora part, and remit the rett ; no,he made him pay all fully down. So to be pardoned,notes the fparing ofthe debt,letting the debt pats, with- out calling us to account about it. Secondly, Pardon of fin, is the removing it our of fight ( Ifs. 38. , 7.) 1 hou haft calf all my fins. behind thy back, faith Heze- ki!ah, that is, thouhaft put them out ofthy tight. As when man is laid, to calf the WordofGodbehind him,Pfal, 5o, 17. or behindhis bat k Nell. 9 26. The meaning is, he regards it not, at all to obey its fo when God carts the finof man behind his. back, the meaning is, he will not regard or fee it all, to punifla it. That phrafe ufe d by the Prophet Micah, is of the fame importance, thoughof a deeper fence, bap. 7.19. Thou wiltcaff all theirfins into the depths ofrbe flit,.. Who can dive thither to fetch them up?Hut, may they not rife up or fwim, out of thetnfelves ?Surely no;our fins are not corkor wood but they are iron or lead they are like !lone, or like a milifone. To thew how irrecoverable the Egyptians were deftroyed in the red- Sea,it is Paid, they fanklike lead in thofe mightywate s Exod. Io,) and to thew how irrecoverable Babylon [hall be dettroyrd, Pbo enjerJfer- the holy Cyh Jh y reamm p m y o(l faith, that, Bab lon all be like a great mil /ione inmore demer cafi-i nto the Sea like a mighty Angel (Rev.' 8. 2 t.)The callingóf a f rummy,. unr, 1 ra. (lone, into, or lead into the fea, was anciently the Emblem of p everla(ling forgetfalnefs, o r of a refolution ,never to recal that fe in Ph exam which was refolved. A learned Hebrician obferves, that it was rever,u" , a cuflomeamong the er>9er to take thofe things which they abomï- yuar, her map g ji fundo ma nated as filthy and unclean,and oft them into the leas which aft rit energerir, noted either the purging ofthem,or the over, whelming them out of atq; in f mma fight for ever : And a like ufage is noted by a reporter of the man aqua extant, Hers of the Americans that thole barbarous peopleeither decipher ticrod.l. a. , b7N n:anut em ing fume wicked thing upon a (lone, or making a fymbole or ligne ,ik lysr. acop. ofit, ufed to throw it iato a river which Mould carry it down into o pho.Ïe, theta, never to b renaembeled. l zrapbttt Pbde Thirdly, Pardon of finis noted by wafhing and purging, to Ili goria ra,u thew that the flthinefs (slit , is removed fromus,Pfal. 51. 2. 0. Moral r Fourthly, 1;y covering,PJál .32.1. and bynot imputing, ver. 2. 3i2rbit, Fifthly, By blotting out, Ifa.43.35 and blotting out asa thick cloud,lfa.44 22 All thefe,notions otpardon concurre in thisone that fins paffes away, is lifted up and taken offfrom the Confcience of the.fnner,whenit is pardoned The funs of all, which is read..
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