The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

3. Hereupon the Guilt comes to be utterly lost; it is a strange expression, Jer. 50 20. The Iniquity of Israel shall be sought for and there shall be none, and the Sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; alas! if search be made, there is enough to be found, that hath been sinful and provoking; but it refers to punishment, which presumeth Guilt, and so there shall be none sound. When they are put on trial for their lives, and enquiry is made, What Sins are to be charged on such? the answer is, there are none to be found, they stand condemned for none: and why? for they are cast into the Sea; they are all blotted out of the book of accounts; the Indictment against them is defaced; they are covered as a thing that is bu•ied out of sight, as one that is dead and forgotten; they are blotted out as a Cloud, Isa. 44 22. and one well observes, that a Cloud is it self a blot in the face of the Sky, and is therefore blotted out by making it to vanish and disappear: and so doth God by his peoples sins: and this is the covering of them.

2 Who is it that Covers it?

A. It is God, and he only, who can thus Cover Sin. It Covering be forgiving, then it belongs to him alone who can forgive, and that is Gods Prerogative, Dan. 9. 9. If it be the Guilt of Sin that is covered, and so covered that it shall never rise again, or be charged, it must needs be a Divine Work. Sin is a Transgression of Gods Law, and the ⟨p. 70⟩