Some important truths concerning conversion, and the improving seasons of grace; as also about…

Many times in the Scripture, Heaven, and the Kingdom of Heaven, noteth that life of glory which the saints shall partake of with Christ in Heaven to all Eternity. And this also is intimated here in the Text, to be the portion of converted ones. And besides these things which the Text expresseth, there are other things that manifest the happy estate of such persons. For 3dly They are the Children of God. Christ proveth, that Peace-makers are blessed, because they are the children of God; Mat. 5. 8. Now then are converted ones blessed, for they are the Children of God; therefore are they said to bear his Image, Col. 3. 10. even as a child bears the image of his Father. Hence, after the Prodigal ⟨p. 42⟩was converted, the Lord saith of him, This my Son was dead, but he is alive again, Luk. 15. 24. So then God then owneth him for his Son. All the men and women in the World are divided into these two ranks, either they are the children of God, or else they are the Children of the Devil, 1 Joh. 3. 10. Natural men are still the Devils children, Scripture calls them so: But as for converted persons, they are Gods Children, and therefore happy. 4. All their sins are pardoned: Blessed is the man whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered: Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity; Psal. 32. 1, 2. Now this is true concerning all that are indeed converted, Rom. 8. 30. Whom he called, them he justified. Where there is effectual calling, or conversion, there is Justification, which implieth the Remission of sins; yea, though a man may have been guilty of never so many and great sins, yet if he truly repent of them, and turn from them unto God in Christ, they shall all be pardoned, Isai. 55. 7. We see it in Paul, he was the chief of sinners, yet he ⟨p. 43⟩