__------- Eclef.r,8, Mzt.tn.;t; i><as,u.is. i Joh.az. '1 Exod.z5t7. s'wi9e,v.x.5ept. Teftorécnra, e- petculum. Pfal.3 Z.! y z. Mat.a8.a4 So Luk.7.49. Luk.a3,4. d CommAntarj! upon the Goiel Chap.6. Verfe 12..lndJrgive tie our debts, &c.] Loofe ur ( faith the O: igina'1) and kt us gee free : for unpardoned fìnners are in the bondof iniquity, as Simmn Marta ; avid renriffi an i; called a relax- ariox, Rare, 3, 25. The guilt of linne is an .obligation, binding us over to condsgne punishment. God hath againfi us, i iatth. 5.23. even our hanci.writing, which is contrary to us , CoIOff, 2. 14. This 'David cunfefl_d againff himlelf, Pfal. 32. 5. and upon his praier obtained pardon. He only scknowledged the debt, and God croíkd the book. God croff:d the black lines of his fi=nes with the red lines ofhis Sonnes blond. Thoußrgaveß me (faith David) the iniquity of my finne; the malignity of it, the worn thing that was in it. For thisAall every one that u godly pray unto thee, by mine example, and obtain like favour. hor our God is a fin- pardoning God, Nehem, 9. 3 T. none like him, Mica, 7. i g. Heforgiveth (inne naturally, Exod. 34.6: abundantly, I/.55.7. conlfantly, 1012.1.27. He Both take_ away thefinnes ofthe worlá. Its a perpetual! aft of hie, asthe Sunne loth (hang, as the fpring loth runne, Zech.1 3.I. Theeye is not weary offeinQ, nor the ear of hear- ing : Nomore is God of(hewingmercy. Ail furs, yea, and bla- fphemks (hill be forgiven to the foesofn;en, faith our Saviour: as the fea covers not only finall fands, but huge rocks. Cbrill is thepropitiation or covering for our fins, arc try -y how many, and how great foever, as was fweetly tha -d, vcd of old by the Atli covering the Law, the mercy-feat covering the A:k, and the Cherubimsover them, both covering one anoiher. In alluhon whereunto, Bier{c'd, faith David, is the runwhff;, tranfgretlion isforgiven, Vohofe jinn iJ covered. B leffrd s the First o to whom theLord imptsteth nòtfinite. A metaphor Corn use.chants, who when they will forgive a debt, doe not put it into the reckoning, and fo, doe not impute it. Sinne cafteth men deep into debt and arrearageswithGod. It is called a debt of ten fboufind ta lents. It caf}s aman into a comfortleffe condition, makes hint hidehis face for fhame, as Adam, cauíe h a continuall found of fear in hisears : fo that he thinks every btífh a bailiff; every flitcha fergeant, &c. An evil confcience hunts him, follows hire up anddown fodole, like a bloud-hound,hotfrot,that he (antedates ferves himfelf, as that Jefuite in Lancafhire, followed by one that had found hisglove, with a &,fire to reffore it to him ; but purfu ed inwardlywith a guilty confeience, leaps over a hedge, pier ges intoa marlcpit behindeit unfeen and outthought of wherein
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