A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

[1.] That God will not exact the debt of thee. God doth not absolutely forget sin, for what he knows never slips out of his knowledge. So that his not remembering is rather an act of his will than a defect in his understanding. As when an act of oblivion is passed, the fact committed is not Physically forgotten, but legally, because the fear of punishment is removed. God puts them out of the memory of his wrath, though not out of the memory of his knowledge. He doth remember them paternally to chastise thee for them, though not judicially to condemn thee.

[1.] That God will not exact the debt of thee. God doth not absolutely forget sin, for what he knows never slips out of his knowledg. So that his not remembring is rather an act of his will than a defect in his understanding. As when an act of oblivion is passed, the fact committed is not Physically forgotten, but legally, because the fear of punishment is removed. God puts them out of the memory of his wrath, though not out of the memory of his knowledge. He doth remember them paternally to chastize thee for them, though not judicially to condemn thee.

[2.] Not upbraid thee. Not with a scornful upbraiding mention them to cast thee off, but with a merciful renewing the remembrance of them upon thy Conscience, to excite thy repentance, and keep thee with in the due bounds of humility and reverence.

More particularly the nature of pardon may be explained in these Propositions. We must not think that these expressions, as they denote pardon, do intimate in this act the taking away of the being of sin, nature of sin, or demerit of sin.