The application of redemption

There is a Threefold Argument to settle this Truth.

Taken from the largeness of his Mercy, which is as¹ himself, Infinite; and therefore infinitely exceeds all §1our wants, and can supply them, all our weaknesses and infirmities, and therefore can forgive them, and remove them as he will, as though they had never been. Isa. 55. 7. Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts, and return unto the Lord, for he will abundantly pardon, and to our God, for he will have mercy. But the discouraged sinner might happily reply, It is Mercy that I have abused, and his pardons he hath tendered, yet I in the time of my folly have trampled under my feet, and therefore with what face could I beg mercy, or upon what ground could I think ever to receive it? He answers, For my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor your ways my ways; for as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so are my thoughts than your thoughts: there is no proportion, no comparison, the Earth is not of a valuable consideration to the Heavens, but like a Centre in the Circumference, it is as though it was not. So here, the thoughts of Gods Mercy to pardon thee, is so far beyond the evil of thy ways, and thoughts to condemn, that they are as though they were not: nay, though thou couldest not believe it, or think it, yet the Lord could and would do it. This is one of his names, He keeps mercy for thousands, Exod. 34. 7. he hath it in store for thousands, and FORGIVES Iniquity, Transgression, and Sin, that is, all kinds and degrees of sin; and he must be thus, or else he were not God: For did our sins exceed his mercies, our weakness his strength; were Satan more malicious to tempt […], and powerful to overcome […], than he was gracious to defend, and Almighty ⟨p. 23⟩