A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

[1.] The Favour of God. Sin makes thee Satan's Drudge, but pardon makes thee God's Favourite. We may be sick to death, with Lazarus, and be God's Friends; sold to slavery, with Joseph, and yet be dear to him; thrown into a Lions Den, with Daniel, and be greatly beloved; poor, with Lazarus, who had only Dogs for Chirurgeons to dress his Sores, and yet have a Title to Abraham's bosom. But we can never be beloved, if we are unpardoned; no share in his friendship, his love, his inheritance, without a pardon. All created evils cannot make us loathsome in a justified State; nor all created goods make us lovely under guilt. Sin is the only Object of God's hatred; while this remains, his Holiness cannot but hate us; when this is removed, his righteousness cannot but love us; remission and favour are inseparable, and can never be dis-joined. 'Tis by this he makes us as a Diadem upon his Head, a Bracelet on his Arm; it is by this he writes us upon the Palms of his Hands, makes us his peculiar Treasure, even as the Apple of his Eye, which Nature hath so carefully fenced.

[1.] The Favour of God. Sin makes thee Satan's Drudge, but pardon makes thee God's Favourite. We may be sick to death, with Lazarus, and be God's Friends; sold to slavery, with Joseph, and yet be dear to him; thrown into a Lions Den, with Daniel, and be greatly beloved; poor, with Lazarus, who had only Doggs for Chirurgions to dress his Sores, and yet have a Title to Abraham's bosom. But we can never be beloved, if we are unpardoned; no share in his friendship, his love, his inheritance, without a pardon. All created evils cannot make us loathsom in a justified State; nor all created goods make us lovely under guilt. Sin is the only Object of God's hatred; while this remains, his Holiness cannot but hate us; when this is removed, his righteousness cannot but love us; remission and favour are inseparable, and can never be dis-joyned. 'Tis by this he makes us as a Diadem upon his Head, a Bracelet on his Arm; it is by this he writes us upon the Palms of his Hands, makes us his peculiar Treasure, even as the Apple of his Eye, which Nature hath so carefully fenced.

[2.] Access to God. A Prince may discard a Favourite for some guilt, and though he may restore him to his liberty in the Common-wealth, yet he may not admit him to the favour of his wonted privacies. But a pardoned man hath an access to God, to a standing and perpetually settled Grace,