A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Now is not this an unspeakable mercy, that Justice and Vengeance, the heavy strokes of which many thousand Wretches lie under, and which thy sins have provoked and armed against thy own Soul, that might, every sin thou committest, that is every moment of thy Life, strike thee Dead in the place; in the dread of which, if thou hast any tenderness of Conscience left in thee, thou must needs live in continual fearful expectations of this Wrath of ⟨p. 70⟩God, to destroy thee as his Enemy. Is it not now Infinite Mercy that God should call in the Commission given to his Justice, that Mercy might secure thee from it: What is this but the effect of Pardoning Grace that gives this destroyer charge to pass over all those upon whose Consciences the Blood of Christ is sprinkled for the removal of their guilt.

Now is not this an unspeakable mercy, that Justice and Vengeance, the heavy stroaks of which many thousand Wretches lie under, and which thy sins have provoked and armed against thy own Soul, that might, every sin thou committest, that is every moment of thy Life, strike thee Dead in the place; in the dread of which, if thou hast any tenderness of Conscience left in thee, thou must needs live in continual fearful expectations of this Wrath of ⟨p. 70⟩God, to destroy thee as his Enemy. Is it not now Infinite Mercy that God should call in the Commission given to his Justice, that Mercy might secure thee from it: What is this but the effect of Pardoning Grace that gives this destroyer charge to pass over all those upon whose Consciences the Bloud of Christ is sprinkled for the removal of their guilt.

¹Secondly, Another Blessed Effect of Pardon of Sin, is Peace and Reconciliation with God. And what happiness can there be greater, than when the Quarrel betwixt Heaven and Earth, betwixt God and the Sinner, is taken up and compounded. Open Wars have been long proclaimed, and long maintained on either part; ever since the first great Rebellion, Man hath stood in defiance with, and exercised great Hostility against his Creator; and God on the other hand, hath thundered out whole Peals of Curses against these Rebels, and hath slain whole Generations of them eternally Dead upon the place. God hath still maintained his Cause with Victory, and Man his with Obstinacy;