A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Now the Scripture sets forth this Pardon of sin, in very sweet and full Expressions. It is called a covering of sin, Psal. 32.1. Blessed is the man, whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered. Though our covering of our sins is no Security from the inspection of God's Eye, who clearly beholds the most hidden and secret things of Darkness; yet certainly those sins that God himself hath covered from himself, he will never again look into, so as to punish for them. Nay, yet farther, as a ground of Comfort, Pardon of sin is not only called a covering of our sins from God's sight, but a covering of God's Face and Sight from them; so we have it, Psal. 51.9. Hide thy face from my sins, and blot out mine iniquities. It is a casting of our sins behind God's back, as a thing that shall never more be regarded or looked upon: so it is expressed to us, Isaiah 38.17. Thou hast in love to my soul, (says good Hezekiah, when a Message of Death was ⟨p. 48⟩brought to him by the Prophet) cast all my sins behind thy back. It is a casting of them into the depth of the Sea; from whence they shall never more arise, either in this World, to terrify our Consciences; or in the World to come, to condemn our Souls; so we have it in Micah 1.19. I will cast all their Iniquities, says God, into the depth of the Sea. It is a scattering of them as a thick cloud, so it is called, Isaiah 44.22. I will scatter their sins as a cloud, and their iniquities as a thick cloud. And in the Text, it is called a blotting out and a forgetting of sin. I even I am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my own sake, and will not remember thy sins: a blotting out, to show, That God will never read his Debt-Book against us; and a forgetting it, That we may not fear, that God will accuse us without-book.

Now the Scripture sets forth this Pardon of sin, in very sweet and full Expressions. It is called a covering of sin, Psal. 32.1. Blessed is the man, whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered. Though our covering of our sins is no Security from the inspection of God's Eye, who clearly beholds the most hidden and secret things of Darkness; yet certainly those sins that God himself hath covered from himself, he will never again look into, so as to punish for them. Nay, yet farther, as a ground of Comfort, Pardon of sin is not only called a covering of our sins from God's sight, but a covering of God's Face and Sight from them; so we have it,