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5SO
THE PARDON
OF SIN TO EE
HIGHLY ESTEEMED,
APPLICATION.
First.
If
it
be
so,
if
the children
of God
under
tem-
poral
afflictions
pray
in
the
first place most
earnestly for
a
sense
of pardoning
mercy,
and
if
the comforts
that
arise
from
it are
so
great,
then,
in
the
time'
of
ease
and
health, let
us
labor after
a
sense
of
sing
and a hope
of
pardon
;
and
let
us
not
be
satisfied
without
it.
If
men
are
horn
to
.affliction
as
sparks.
fly
upwards,
how
can
we
promise
ourselves
security;
and if sorrow surprise
us
before
we
have
any
hope
of pardon,
what a,dreadful
con-
dition must
we
be
in
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Secondly.
Those
that
have
believed
in
Jesus,
that
have had
a
hope
of
justification through
faith,
should
keep
up
a
sight
of
a forgiving
God
;
for
that
is
the
best
preparative
for,
suffering. As
then
you
are not
secure
from
afflictions,
never
satisfy
yourselves
to
go
a day with-
out
a
sight
of
your freedom
from
condemning
guilt, with-
out
some
hopes
of
pardon.
O wrestle and
be
importunate
with God
with this
petition.
Do
not
condemn
me.
Let
mot the
evidences
of
our
love to
God
be
blotted
or,
dark-
ened
by a
disorderly
course
of
life.
Let
us
not
lose
our
evidences
of
a
better
world
by
our
unwatchfulness,
lest
sorrow come upon
us
by
surprise, and
seize
us
at
once,
and
we
have all
,these
things to seek which might be
our
support.