A Body of Practical Divinity

Use 4. Of Comfort to such as can make out their Covenant Interest in God: 1. You that are in Covenant with God, all your sins are pardoned. Pardon is the crowning Mercy, Psal. 103.3. Who forgiveth thy iniquity, who crowneth thee, &c. This is a branch of the Covenant, Jer. 31.33. I will be their God, and I will forgive their iniquity. Sin being pardoned, all wrath ceaseth. How terrible is it when but a Spark of God's Wrath flies into a Man's Conscience; but sin being forgiven, no more wrath. God doth not appear now in the Fire, or Earthquake, but covered with a Rain-bow full of Mercy.

Use 4. Of Comfort to such as can make out their Covenant Interest in God: 1. You that are in Covenant with God, all your sins are pardoned. Pardon is the crowning Mercy, Psal. 103.3. Who forgiveth thy iniquity, who crowneth thee, &c. This is a branch of the Covenant, Ier. 31.33. I will be their God, and I will forgive their iniquity. Sin being pardoned, all wrath ceaseth. How terrible is it when but a Spark of God's Wrath flies into a Man's Conscience; but sin being forgiven, no more wrath. God doth not appear now in the Fire, or Earthquake, but covered with a Rain-bow full of Mercy.

2. All your Temporal Mercies are Fruits of the Covenant. Wicked Men have Mercies by Providence, not by virtue of a Covenant; with Gods leave, not with his Love. But such as are in Covenant have their Mercies sweetened with God's Love, and they swim to them in the Blood of Christ. As Naaman said to Gehazi, 2 Kings 5.23. Take two Talents, so saith God to such as are in Covenant, Take two Talents; take Health, and take Christ with it; take Riches, and take my Love with them; take the Venison, and take the Blessing with it: Take two Talents.