Words whereby we may be saved. By Thomas Vincent, sometime minister of Maudlins milk-street,…

2. A second great Promise of the Covenant of Grace is, That God will be merciful unto our unrighteousness, and that he will remember no more our sins and iniquities; it is a promise of mercy in the free pardon and forgiveness of all our sins, this is an exceeding great and precious promise, without which there were no access for us unto God, no attaining eternal happiness, no escaping eternal misery, guilt would shut us out of Heaven, and sink us into Hell without a pardon. This Promise is of vast extent, it reacheth to all sort of sins, Unrighteousness, Sins, Iniquities; no sin is too great for God to pardon, if the sinner doth believe.

2. A second great Promise of the Covenant of Grace is, That God will be mercifull unto our unrighteousness, and that he will remember no more our sins and iniquities; it is a promise of mercy in the free pardon and forgiveness of all our sins, this is an exceeding great and precious promise, without which there were no access for us unto God, no attaining eternal happiness, no escaping eternal misery, guilt would shut us out of Heaven, and sink us into Hell without a pardon. This Promise is of vast extent, it reacheth to all sort of sins, Unrighteousness, Sins, Iniquities; no sin is too great for God to pardon, if the sinner doth believe.

3. A third Promise of the Covenant of Grace is, that God will give us the knowledge of himself; they shall not teach every man his Neighbour, and every man his Brother, saying, Know the Lord, for they shall all know me from the least to the greatest; they shall not teach one another the knowledge of God, that is, they cannot, or they shall not be able to do it; they may and ought to teach one another instrumentally; it is the duty of some to teach, and the duty of others, and they have need, to learn, ⟨p. 62⟩but they shall not be able to teach effectually; they may give instructions to one another concerning God and his ways; but they cannot give light; they may set the light before them, but they cannot set up the light in them; they may open Truths, but they cannot open the Understanding; this is the work of God only to do, and this he hath undertaken by Promise to do, they shall all know me, they shall be taught of God by his Spirit the knowledge of himself; he teacheth by men instrumentally, but he will teach us by his Spirit effectually.