332 FORGIVENESS OF SIN. dealings with his people,) yet at the same time he as- sured them of the pardon of their sin: this you know was the case with David. His greatest affliction, and that which befell himon account of a particular sin, and wherein God took vengeance on his invention, was ushered in with a word of grace, that God had done away or pardoned his sins, and that he should not die. This is expressed in the tenor of the covenant with the seed of Christ. Psalm 89: 30-34. CHAPTER XVI. ITINDERANCES TO A SENSE OF FORGIVENESS.-AM I REGEN- ERATED 2 Another class of objections arise from t/ings internal, things that are required in the soul, that it may have interest in forgiveness with God. Some of these we shall consider. They respect, first, the stale of the soul and, secondly, some acting's in the soul. As to the state, it is rightly urged that unless a man be REGENERATE, BORN AGAIN, he is not, he cannot be made partaker of mercy and pardon. " And here," say some, " all is dark to us : we know not well what this regeneration is; it is uncertain whether. those who are regenerated can know that they are so, or whether this can in any measure be known to others. For our part, we neither know the time when nor the manner how any such work was wrought in us; and yet without this
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