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2. As for the pardon it self,¹ that is expressed in two things, I am he that blotteth out, and will not remember. Blotting out implies,

2. As for the pardon it self,¹ that is expressed in two things, I am he that blotteth out, and will not remember. Blotting out implys,

1. 1Blotting out of sin, implies two things.Blotting out of sin, implys two things.

First,¹ That our Transgressions are written down, and written they are in a two-fold Book; the one is in the Book of God's Remembrance, which he blots ⟨p. 6⟩out when he justifies a sinner: The other is the Book of our own Consciences which he blots out when he gives us peace and assurance; and oftentimes these follow one upon the other: When God blots his Remembrance-Book in Heaven, that blot diffuseth and spreads it self even to the Book of Conscience, and blots out all that is written there also. Man blots his Conscience by committing sin, but God blots it by pardoning it: He lays a blot of Christ's Blood upon a blot of our guilt, and this is such a blot as leaves the Conscience of a sinner purer and cleaner than it found it.

First,¹ That our Transgressions are written down, and written they are in a two-fold Book; the one is in the Book of God's Remembrance, which he blots ⟨p. 6⟩