A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Thirdly,¹ God pardons sin though he might gain to himself a great Renown, as he hath on the Damned. God might have written thy Name in Hell, as he hath written theirs, and might have set thee up a flaming Monument, and inscribed on thee Victory and Conquest to the Glory of his Everlasting Vengeance. Both Books were open before him, both the Book of Life and of Death; and the Contents of both shall be rehearsed to his infinite Glory at the last Day: Now ⟨p. 24⟩what was it dictated thy Name to him, that guided his Hand to write thee down rather in the Book of Life, than in the Book of Death; that set thee down a Saint, and not a Sinner; Pardoned, and not Condemned? What moved him to do all this for thee? Why truly, the only Answer that God gives, and which is the only Answer that can be given, is the same which Pilate gives concerning our Saviour, What I have written, I have written.

Thirdly,¹ God pardons sin though he might gain to himself a great Renown, as he hath on the Damned. God might have written thy Name in Hell, as he hath written theirs, and might have set thee up a flaming Monument, and inscribed on thee Victory and Conquest to the Glory of his Everlasting Vengeance. Both Books were open before him, both the Book of Life and of Death; and the Contents of both shall be rehearsed to his infinite Glory at the last Day: Now ⟨p. 24⟩what was it dictated thy Name to him, that guided his Hand to write thee down rather in the Book of Life, than in the Book of Death; that set thee down a Saint, and not a Sinner; Pardon'd, and not Condemn'd? What moved him to do all this for thee? Why truly, the only Answer that God gives, and which is the only Answer that can be given, is the same which Pilate gives concerning our Saviour, What I have written, I have written.

1. 1God pardons, tho he might gain Renown, as on the Damned.