A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

¹First, Pardon of Sin is always conjoined with the Acceptation of our Persons. Indeed these two are the twin Parts of our Justification; and therefore we have them coupled together, Ephes. 1.6, 7. He hath made us accepted in the beloved; In whom we have Redemption through his blood, even the Forgiveness of Sin. The whole Mystery of our Justification stands in these two things, Remission and Acceptation. Remission takes away our liableness unto Death, and Acceptation gives us a Right and Title unto Life; for to be accepted of God in Christ, is no other, than for God through the Righteousness and Obedience ⟨p. 59⟩of Christ imputed to us, to own and acknowledge us, as having a Right and Title unto Heaven: and therefore we have mention made of Pardon and an Inheritance together, as the full sum of our Justification. Acts 11.18. That they may receive forgiveness of sin, and an inheritance among those that are sanctified. It is not therefore, O Soul, a bare negative Mercy that God intends thee in the Pardon of thy Sins; it is not merely the removing of the Curse and the Wrath that thy sins have deserved, though that alone can never be sufficiently admired; but the same hand that plucks thee out of Hell, by pardoning Grace and Mercy, lifts thee up to Heaven, by what it gives thee together with thy Pardon, even a Right and Title to the glorious Inheritance of the Saints above.

¹First, Pardon of Sin is always conjoyn'd with the Acceptation of our Persons. Indeed these two are the twin Parts of our Justification; and therefore we have them coupled together, Ephes. 1.6, 7. He hath made us accepted in the beloved; In whom we have Redemption thorow his blood, even the Forgiveness of Sin. The whole Mystery of our Justification stands in these two things, Remission and Acceptation. Remission takes away our liableness unto Death, and Acceptation gives us a Right and Title unto Life; for to be accepted of God in Christ, is no other, than for God through the Righteousness and Obedience ⟨p. 59⟩