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

3. Children are apt to forget wrongs: Hence is that, 1 Cor. 14. 20. in malice be ye Children. You often observe that Children, though they fall out never so, yet in a little time all will be forgotten, and they will become as good friends as ever they ⟨p. 58⟩were. Truly, he that cannot forgive wrongs, hath no Grace in his heart; so if a man hath a forgiving spirit, its a good sign; yea, if a man doth freely forgive those that wrong him, and if he doth it out of conscience to the holy Commandment of God, and out of a sense of the Grace of God towards him, in pardoning of his many sins, it is one of the clearest Evidences of a true Child of God that can be given. This hath Christ taught us, Mat. 6. 14, 15. For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: But if you forgive them not their trespasses, neither will your heavenly Father forgive you your trespasses. So that you see it holds true both in the Affirmative, and in the Negative, That a forgiving spirit is an evidence of a true child of God; and the want of this, an evidence of the contrary. But besides these Characters which the Text doth afford, some other things may be mentioned as marks of Trial here Therefore.

3. Children are apt to forget wrongs: Hence is that, 1 Cor. 14. 20. in malice be ye Children. You often observe that Children, though they fall out never so, yet in a little time all will be forgotten, and they will become as good friends as ever they ⟨p. 58⟩were. Truly, he that cannot forgive wrongs, hath no Grace in his heart; so if a man hath a forgiving spirit, its a good sign; yea, if a man doth freely forgive those that wrong him, and if he doth it out of conscience to the holy Commandment of God, and out of a sence of the Grace of God towards him, in pardoning of his many sins, it is one of the clearest Evidences of a true Child of God that can be given. This hath Christ taught us, Mat. 6. 14, 15