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6. Hence he only expects that you should Confess. This is the great thing he stands upon, you humble and cordial acknowledgement, Jer. 3. 11 I know proud nature had rather to do something else than come to this; but God will have •• thus to testify our Humiliation, and acknowledgement of his grace to us: if then you […] heartily confess, he will readily forgive.

6. Hence he only expects that you should Confess. This is the great thing he stands upon, you humble and cordial acknowledgment, Jer. 3. 11 I know proud nature had rather to do somethin• else than come to this; but God will have •• thus to testifie our Humiliation, and acknowledgment of his grace to us: if then you 〈…〉 heartily confess, he will readily forgive.

7. He counts himself Glorified by this Confess••• ⟨p. 273⟩Josh. 7. 19. And indeed by it we acknowledge our own merit, and his Righteousness in the Sentence of Death past upon us, as he, Psal. 51 4. By this we lay our selves down at-his fee•, and acknowledge that if ever he forgive us, it must be for his own name sake, and so we ascribe our pardon to him, and give him the praise of his grace.