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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Consider the words, and what notes they will afford to us.
(1.) Covering, as it alludes to the manner of writing, and so is the same with blotting out, Isa. 43.25. I, even I am he that blots out thy transgression; whereby is implied, that sin is a debt, and pardon is the remitting of it. It notes,
[1.] The nullity of the debt. A crossed book will not stand good in law, because the crossing of the book implies the Satisfaction of the debt. A debt may be read in our manner of writing in a crossed book, but it cannot be pleaded. God may after pardon read our sins in the book of his Omniscience, but not charge them upon us at the bar of his Justice.
[2.] Gods willingness to pardon. Blots, not razeth. He engraves them not upon marble, he writes them not with a pen of Iron, or point of a diamond; writing upon wax is easily made plain.