A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects

(1.) If once pardoned, thou will be always pardoned. For the first pardon Christ paid his blood, for the continuance he doth but plead his blood, and we cannot be without a pardon till Christ be without a plea He merited the continuance as well as the first remission. Will our Saviour be more backward to intercede for pardon, than he was to bleed and pray for it on earth? Would not our dearest Saviour let sin go unremitted when he was to contest with the Fathers wrath, and will he let it go unpardoned when he is only to solicit his Fathers mercy? Thou shalt not want the daily renewals of it, since he is only to present his blood in the most holy place, seeing an ignominious and painful death did not scare him from the purchase of it upon the Cross. As Gods heart is more ready to give than we are to ask forgiveness, so is Christs heart more ready to plead for the continuance of it, than we are daily to beg it; for he Loves his people more than they can Love him, or Love themselves. Our praying is according to self Love, but Christs intercession is according to his own infinite Love with a more intense fervency.

(1.) If once pardoned, thou will be always pardoned. For the first pardon Christ paid his blood, for the continuance he doth but plead his blood, and we cannot be without a pardon till Christ be without a plea He merited the continuance as well as the first remission. Will our Saviour be more backward to intercede for pardon, than he was to bleed and pray for it on earth? Would not our dearest Saviour let sin go unremitted when he was to contest with the Fathers wrath, and will he let it go unpardoned when he is only to solicite his Fathers mercy? Thou shalt not want the daily renewals of it, since he is only to present his blood in the most holy place, seeing an ignominious and painful death did not scare him from the purchase of it upon the Cross. As Gods heart is more ready to give than we are to ask forgiveness, so is Christs heart more ready to plead for the continuance of it, than we are daily to begg it; for he Loves his people more than they can Love him, or Love themselves. Our praying is according to self Love, but Christs intercession is according to his own infinite Love with a more intense fervency.