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3. This Guilt is not removed from the Conscience but by forgiveness. Nothing but a pardon can tak• it away. I know Sinners have other courses t• benumb their hearts, and stupefy the sense o• their pain: and sometimes by Gods awful Jud• meant they obtain to bring themselves into ded• lency, it may be carnal confidence, and vain pr• sumption; some mens Consciences are stupifie• others secure under a refuge of lies: but this is • false peace; the wound is but skinned over, an• the core will fester within, and break out agai•• more fearfully. That man who seeks to quiet h•• mind from the trouble which Sin hath brought him into, any other way, but by seeking forgive• ness, doth but cheat his own Soul, and lay a foun• dation for his greater sorrow, Isa. 50. 11. Till fo• giveness cometh, the Wrath of God abideth hi• Justice stands engaged to pursue him to death, an• the irresistible hand of Omnipotency is ready t• do the Execution, nor can any thing remedy th• but a free pardon: the man cannot expiate it, a• his repentances and reformations will not satisf•• for it; till the Blood of Christ be applied to it, will certainly remain.

3. This Guilt is not removed from the Conscienc• but by forgiveness. Nothing but a pardon can tak it away. I know Sinners have other courses t benumme their hearts, and stupify the sense o their pain: and sometimes by Gods awful Jud ment they obtain to bring themselves into ded lency, it may be carnal confidence, and vain pr sumption; some mens Consciences are stupifie others secure under a refuge of lies: but this is false peace; the wound is but skinned over, an the core will fester within, and break out agai more fearfully. That man who seeks to quiet h mind from the trouble which Sin hath brough him into, any other way, but by seeking forgive ness, doth but cheat his own Soul, and lay a foun dation for his greater sorrow,