Come sinners, give me leave to tell you, you have a Text before you, that the clears the way of your duty and salvation at once.1 If any man, be he what he will, be his sins never so great, yet if he hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, saith Christ. There is mercy in Jesus Christ for thee who art guilty of crying sins: For thee, that hast added sinned against light and knowledge; For thee, that hast drunkenness to thirst: For thee, that hast contrived sin with deliberation: For thee, that hast induced others to sin by counsel or example: For thee, that hast taken pleasure in iniquity, and made a sport of sin: Yea, and for thee also, that hast broken asunder the bonds of mercies, vows and warnings, provided thou wilt now hear the voice of Christ, and thy Will open to him with an hearty firm consent, Isa. 55. 4. You are great and heinous sinners, but I show this day a Great and Almighty Saviour: One that is able to save to the utmost all ⟨p. 270⟩that come unto God by him. Hebr. 7. 25. There is a Sacrifice laid out and appointed for these sins. O bless God for that. They are no where excepted from the possibility of forgiveness. Nothing but the impenitency of thy heart, and obstinacy of thy Will, can bar thee from a full and final pardon. Jesus Christ can save thee to the uttermost. Say not within thy self, Can the virtue of his Blood extend it self to the remission of this or that sin? He can save to the uttermost. Look round about thee to the uttermost Horizon of all thy guilt, and Christ can save thee to the uttermost, that the Eye of thy Conscience can discern, yea and beyond it too; but then thou must come unto him. You speak of the greatness of sin, and you have cause to have sad thoughts about it; but in the mean time you consider not, that your Unbelief, by which you stand off from Christ your only Remedy, is certainly the greatest of all the sins that ever you stood guilty of against the Lord. This is the sin that binds the guilt of all your other sins upon you. Let me therefore address my self, (1) To you who cry out of the greatness of sin, and that discourages you from going to Christ: (2) To lesser sinners, who because they are clear of great Enormities, see not their need of Christ.
Come sinners, give me leave to tell you, you have a Text before you, that the clears the way of your duty and salvation at once.1 If any man, be he what he will, be his sins never so great, yet if he hear my voice, and open the door, I will come into him, saith Christ. There is mercy in Jesus Christ for thee who art guilty of crying sins: For thee, that hast added sinned against light and knowledge; For thee, that hast drunkenness to thirst: For thee, that hast contrived sin with deliberation: For thee, that hast induced others to sin by counsel or example: For thee, that hast taken pleasure in iniquity, and made a sport of sin: Yea, and for thee also, that hast broken asunder the bonds of mercies, vows and warnings, provided thou wilt now hear the voice of Christ, and thy Will open to him with an hearty firm consent, Isa. 55. 4. You are great and heinous sinners, but I shew this day a Great and Almighty Saviour: One that is able to save to the utmost all ⟨p. 270⟩that come unto God by him. Hebr. 7. 25. There is a Sacrifice laid out and appointed for these sins. O bless God for that. They are no where excepted from the possibility of forgiveness. Nothing but the impenitency of thy heart, and obstinacy of thy Will, can bar thee from a full and final pardon. Jesus Christ can save thee to the uttermost. Say not within thy self, Can the virtue of his Blood extend it self to the remission of this or that sin? He can save to the uttermost. Look round about thee to the uttermost Horizon of all thy guilt, and Christ can save thee to the uttermost, that the Eye of thy Conscience can discern, yea and beyond it too; but then thou must come unto him. You speak of the greatness of sin, and you have cause to have sad thoughts about it; but in the mean time you consider not, that your Unbelief, by which you stand off from Christ your only Remedy, is certainly the greatest of all the sins that ever you stood guilty of against the Lord. This is the sin that binds the guilt of all your other sins upon you. Let me therefore address my self, (1) To you who cry out of the greatness of sin, and that discourages you from going to Christ: (2) To lesser sinners, who because they are clear of great Enormities, see not their need of Christ.
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