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2. The privileges which flow from, or attend upon this pardon, do no less declare the blessedness of such an one; these have not the shadow, but the substance of felicity in them. Pardon of Sin brings with it all the benefits of Christ; forgiveness derives to us through him, as may after be particularly evidenced, it is from the Imputation of his Righteousness; and so it derives to us by Faith, with which we accept of, and close in with his person: and if he be once ours, all his benefits are so too; for they are inseparable, 1 Cor. 1. 30. if God makes him ours, he makes him all to us: and by virtue of that, all blessedness is made ours. Hence,

2. The priviledges which flow from, or attend upon this pardon, do no less declare the blessedness of such an one; these have not the shadow, but the substance of felicity in them. Pardon of Sin brings with it all the benefits of Christ; forgiveness derives to us through him, as may after be particularly evidenced, it is from the Imputation of his Righteousness; and so it derives to us by Faith, with which we accept of, and close in with his person: and if he be once ours, all his benefits are so too; for they are inseparable, 1 Cor. 1. 30. if God makes him ours, he makes him all to us: and by vertue of that, all blessedness is made ours. Hence,

1. They that are pardoned are Justified. There are two things that belong to the Justification of […] Sinner, and this is one of them: their sins are forgiven, and they are adjudged righteous, and •hese are never parted; for, where God pardoneth sin, there he imputeth Righteousness, and hence the man comes to be Justified, so the Apostle argueth, Rom. 4. 6, 7. and certainly, he ••at is Justified is blessed: for indeed, as all misery is rooted in Condemnation, so all felicity ows from Justification: the Apostle therefore ts them together,