The Fountain of Life Opened

First, Why should any poor soul that is now humbled for its enmity to Christ in the days of ignorance, question the possibility of forgiveness: when this effect doth not exceed the power of the cause; nay when there is more efficacy in the blood of Christ the meritorious cause, than is in the effect of it. There's power enough in that blood not only to pardon thy sins, but the sins of the whole world, were it actually applied. 1 John 2.2. There is not only a sufficiency, but also a redundancy of merit, in that precious blood. Surely then thy enmity to Christ, especially before thou knewest him, may not look like an unpardonable iniquity in thine eyes.

First, Why should any poor soul that is now humbled for its enmity to Christ in the daies of ignorance, question the possibility of forgiveness: when this effect doth not exceed the power of the cause; nay when there is more efficacy in the blood of Christ the meritorious cause, than is in the effect of it. There's power enough in that blood not only to pardon thy sins, but the sins of the whole world, were it actually applied. 1 Iohn 2.2. There is not only a sufficiency, but also a redundancy of merit, in that pretious blood. Surely then thy enmity to Christ, especially before thou knewest him, may not look like an unpardonable iniquity in thine eyes.

Secondly, And as this sin exceeds not the power of the meritorious cause of forgiveness; so neither is it any where excluded from pardon, by any word of God. Nay, such is the extensiveness of the promise to believing penitents, that this case is manifestly included, and forgiveness tendered to thee in the promises▪ Isai. 55.7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous ⟨p. 409⟩