The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

How often do we forfeit and lose good things, because of our unworthy walking in the enjoyment thereof? Hos, 2.8, 9—I will take away my corn in the time thereof; my wine, and my flax in their season. [Mine] It was Gods. And, would you know the reason? see in the former verse, Because they did not acknowledge him as the giver of them, but bestowed them on Baal, as though he had given them.

But now this Mercy is an irrevocable Mercy: A mercy that God never recalls; A Mercy, God never repents of—The gifts and graces of God are without repentance—And it is a Mercy never forfeited.

But now this Mercy is an irrevocable Mercy: A mercy that God never recals; A Mercy, God never repents of—The gifts and graces of God are without repentance—And it is a Mercy never forfeited.

We may forfeit the sense of a pardon, we may forfeit the comfort of a pardon; nay, we may forfeit the knowledge of a pardon. I say, you may sin away the sense, the comfort, the knowledge of a pardon: as it was with David.