011 the P ajfioJt. 3 I I whereby we n1ay be enabled to ferve hi1n in holinefs and righteoufi1efs all the days of our lives. An anm.eflj, or aCt of oblivion for pafl: offences, would never have ferve d the turu; we .fhould prefently have run ourfelves upon another fcore: nay, fin it– felf had been enough to n1ake us miferable, though no other puniihment had been in– fiicred upon us: . and therefore he does not only ·cover our fins, but cures them ; he. .forgives all our iniquities, and healeth all our difeafes: as we are jufHfied by his fuf– ferings, fo we areJan8ified too through tbe offering· of the body o.f Je/us Chrifl once fir all*. In a word, By the merits of our Sa– viour we are both reconciled unto God, and made partakers of the divine ·nature; we are both delivered fron1 everlafl:ing dark– nefs, and n1ade n1eet for the inheritance of the faints in light. And now is it nothing to · us? Can we think ourfclves unconcerned in thefe fufferings, fron1 whid1 we reap fo great fo unfpeakable advantages? III. Having fpoken of the grcatnefs of our Saviour's fufferings, .,and the interefi which we have in then1, we think \ve lhould need to fay little of the third particular \vhic'h we propofed: you cannot but be convinced
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