A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹Eighthly, God decrees to pardon without foresight of Merit, or worth in us. When we lay before him, as the Objects of his Mercy, what was our posture, but weltering in our Blood? And what promising, Aspect was such a loathsome Object as this? Divine Love did not foresee any attractive Comeliness in us, but made it; when we were rolled up in our own Filth, cast forth to the loathing of our Flesh; yet then was it a time of Love, and even then when we were in our Blood, God said to us, Live; when we were full of Wounds, Bruises, and putrefying Sores, Divine Love condescended to bind them up and cure them; such miserable deformed Creatures were we: And could there be any thing amiable in such an Object as this, only hereby God puts an accent on the Riches of his Love, laying it out upon such as were not worthy, with a design to make them worthy.

¹Eighthly, God decrees to pardon without foresight of Merit, or worth in us. When we lay before him, as the Objects of his Mercy, what was our posture, but weltering in our Bloud? And what promising, Aspect was such a loathsome Object as this? Divine Love did not foresee any attractive Comeliness in us, but made it; when we were rolled up in our own Filth, cast forth to the loathing of our Flesh; yet then was it a time of Love, and even then when we were in our Bloud, God said to us, Live; when we were full of Wounds, Bruises, and putrifying Sores, Divine Love condescended to bind them up and cure them; such miserable deformed Creatures were we: And could there be any thing amiable in such an Object as this, only hereby God puts an accent on the Riches of his Love, laying it out upon such as were not worthy, with a design to make them worthy.

1. 1God pardons without foresight of Merit.

¹Ninthly, Consider this, God pardons not only, though he saw no Merit in us, but what is more to the Glory of his free Grace, though he foresaw many future