A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

And here we may see what abundant security God gives his People, that ⟨p. 8⟩they shall never be impleaded for those sins which once they have attained the pardon of; they are blotted out of his Book of Remembrance: and that they may not fear he will accuse them without Book, he tells them, That they are utterly forgotten, and shall never be remembered by him against them any more.

And here we may see what abundant security God gives his People, that ⟨p. 8⟩they shall never be impleaded for those sins which once they have attained the pardon of; they are blotted out of his Book of Remembrance: and that they may not fear he will accuse them without Book, he tells them, That they are utterly forgotten, and shall never be remembred by him against them any more.

Thirdly, Consider the impulsive cause, that moves God's Hand, as it were, to blot out our Transgressions; and that is not any thing without himself, but (says God) I will do it for my own sake. This admits of a two-fold sense, efficient and final.

Thirdly, Consider the impulsive cause, that moves God's Hand, as it were, to blot out our Transgressions; and that is not any thing without himself, but (says God) I will do it for my own sake. This admits of a two-fold sence, efficient and final.

First, For my own sake: That is, because it is my pleasure: I will do it, because I will do it. And indeed this is the Royal Prerogative of God alone, to render his Will for his Reason; for because his Will is altogether Sovereign, and Independent, that must needs be most reasonable that he wills. If any should question, Why the Lord past by fallen Angels, and stooped so low as to take up Fallen Man? And why among