The Cup of Dleflin <g. ++ 525 Iit,yet when death Thal come,then you thall find that be- y i SER,iI. É Iond all the treafure , to have that white-hone with a new name in it: that (tone was a figne of abfolution that a man was quitted , that his fins arc forgiven, that her bath intereft in chrifi and eternity,that eternal life is for him in heaven ; this is the ftrft motive to win you to chri ft. Secondly, if you will come in to him,you have 2 all your debts payed, you fhall be under cover, that is, Our debts you fhall have all your firmes forgiven, that when the paid. creditors come with an arreR , with a judgement and execution, you may be able to fay ; no, they arc none of my debts , goe to my husband, hee muft pay them and not I : I fay , when you have Chrift , when Satan (hall come , when firme (hall come, you may put them over to Chrift; for now you are his and he is yours, he bath taken our debts on him : is this a fmall thing e Pfal. 32. r. faith David, Bleffed is the man whole fins are for - given, and whoa iniquities are covered : Marke, bleffed is the man whofe fins are forgiven. Perhaps if one of us fhould feeke a happy man, we would fay, that he is a happy man that lives in health and in wealth , in credit and aboundance of all things : bee that bath the favour of Princes hee that bath forne notable excellency to make him famous among men,fome fuck thing we would take for happineffe : But when David comes to look through the world,and all the felicity in it : oh faith David, He is a happy man that his fins are f or- given ! And there is a good reafon forit, becaufe when our finis forgiven, we are reconciled to God,and God only can make man happy . For wherein doth happines confiit,but ina freedom from all evill, and in enjoying o
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