Chap. 7. An Expofitionupon the fsookofJ O B. VerC2Y. read in that one text, ser. §o. 20. In thofe dayes, andin that time faith the Lord, the iniquity of lfrael fhall befoughtfar, and there frail be none, 0.c. ( why ? ) For 1will pardon them whim I re.. ceive. So that pardoned fin, in Gods account is no fn, and the pardoned (inner is, as ifhe had never finned: Forgivenefs deflroyes fin, asforgiving a debt deflroyes the debt, and cancelling a Bond, deflroyes the Bond. Thirdly obferve, < Whenfn ispardoned, the punifhment offin it pardoned. Both words fignifie both the punifhment and the fin; and Job having complain 'd that he was fee up as a mark, and wounded by tharp afliidions, now Peeks cafe in the fureft and (peed ieft way, the pardon of fin, why doeft thou notpardon my tranfgreffion,en. There are three things in fin ; the inward matter , the foul evil, the flock, the root of fin which is natural corruption dwel- ling in us, and flowingout by allions. Secondly the defilement and pollution of fin : Thirdly, the gúilt; when we lay finis par- doned or taken away, it is not in the former (though in pardoned perlonscorruption is mortified, and the adingsof it abated ) but in the latter the guilt is taken away, which is the obligation to punifhment , and fo the punithment is taken away too; nothing vinditiveor fatisfadory to the juflice of God, [hall ever be laid upon that Coul,whofe lin ispardoned : Hence Ifa.33.245ehe Pro- phet fore [hewing how happy a pardoned people [hall be, affures them ; The inhabitants (hall not fay, I am lick, the people that dwell thereinfrail beforgiven their iniquity ; When iniquity is forgiveh, our infirmity is cured: When the foul is healed, .the body [hall be recovered, both the body natural and the bodypo- litick. Plague, and Sword,and Famine,and Death,all thefe evils go away when fin goes ; Judgments are nothing elfe but unpar- do ned fins ; fin unpardoned is the root which giveth Cap and life to all all the troubles which are upon man or Nation : And as fin committed, is eve judgment radically, that is, there is a fitnefs in tin toproduce andbring forth any evil upon man ; fo pardon of fin is every Mercy radically ; when you have pardon , from thence everyother particular Mercy prings ; yon may cut out any ble(ling,any comfort out of the pardon of.fin;particular Mer- aiesare but pardon of fin fpecificatedor individuated,brought in. to this or that particular Mercy, of all blellings you may :fay,this : is pardon of fin, that's pardon of fin, ánd ['other ispardon offin. Forgivenefs deflroyefh that wherein the flrength of fin lies, it Y Y Y 2 de ilroy-
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