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Fourthly, Because Christ prayed in the Days of his Flesh, that the Father would keep them that he had given him in the World from the Evil thereof, though not from every Evil. I dare not say ¹that; because whatever Christ prayed for, it was granted; and yet we see the best of Saints do sin: But he prayed that they might not fall so, sin so, as to perish in their sin, or sin unto Death; therefore their Sins shall never damn them.

1. 1John 17. 15.

Fifthly, Their Sins cannot separate them so from the Love of God; as that he should cast them off for ever; because a broken Heart, and pardon of Sin, is contained in the Covenant of Grace: I will be merciful unto their Unrighteousness; and their Sins and Iniquities I will remember no more. Though they will be sick; ¹none can live and sin not; yet they have a Physician that can and will heal them. The Covenant hath a healing Antidote in it for every spiritual Malady of the Soul of a poor dejected Believer: And because God hath promised to give Repentance to his Israel, Sin not being actually forgiven without Repentance, or before Repentance, therefore God will give Repentance to all his Children; he will look upon them as Christ looked upon Peter, and then they shall, and do weep as he did, bitterly. Nay, Brethren, Jesus Christ is exalted on high to this very End: Him hath God exalted with his ²right Hand, to be a Prince and a Saviour, to give Repentance unto Israel, and forgiveness of Sins: That is, to cover, to conquer and subdue all their Corruptions, and to supply their Wants, and to protect and defend them from all Enemies, and eternally to save their Souls: For which End he had his Name given him; And thou shalt call his Name Jesus, for he shall save his People from their