428 FORGIVENESS OF SIN. fruits of his love. Let me therefore prevail with you, who are in a like con¡lition, to adopt the same course with me. Only let your expectation be fixed with mer- cy and sovereign grace, without regard to any privilege or worth in yourselves. Rest in the plenteous redemp- tion, those stores of grace which are with Jehovah, and, according to his faithfulness in his promises, he will deliver you out of all perplexing troubles. It only remains to close this treatise by briefly naming a few doctrinal truths which grow out of the subject. 1. The Lord JEHOVAH is the only hope for sin -dis- tressed souls : " Hope in the Lord." This hath been sufficiently discovered and confirmed on sundry passa- ges in the psalm. 2. The ground of all hope and expectation of relief in sinners is mere grace, mercy and redemption. "Hope in the Lord, for with him there is redemption." All other grounds of hope are false and deceiving. 3. Inexhaustible stores of mercy and redemption are needful for the encouragement of sinners to rest and wait on God: " With him is plentiful redemption." Such is your misery, so pressing are your fears and dis- tresses, that nothing less than boundless grace can re- lieve or support you ; there are therefore such treasures and stores in God as are suited to your necessities : " With him is plenteous redemption." 4. The ground of all the dispensation of mercy, good- ness, grace and forgiveness to sinners, is laid in the blood of Christ. Hence it is here called redemption. 5. All that wait on God on account of mercy and grace, shall have an undoubted issue of peace : " He
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