Remember also that there are some now •riump••ing with God in Heaven that once […] […] of the […] same ⟨p. 44⟩Sins which We are now terrified withal. Where is Abraham, that once was an Idolater? what became of Manasseh, the Conjurer? and of Magdalen the Strumpet? Is it not an Epitaph written by the Apostle upon the Grave of Rahab, Rahab the Harlot perished not? yea, did not even some of those that Murdered the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, afterwards partake in the pardoning virtue of His Blood, which with wicked Hands they had been shedding of? see also 1 Cor.6.9,10,11. And why may not YOU come to be pardoned as well as they, if you tread in their steps, by a serious and sedulous making after it? Perhaps you have been ready to Sin. But it is an Attribute of God, in Neh. 9. 17. He is ready to pardon. Have you gone on a great while in Sin, and grown old and grey, and horribly Ripe in your Evil ways? yet hear that Charm, in Jer. 3.1. Thou hast played the Harlot with many ••vers, yet Return unto Me saith the Lord. In the primitive ⟨p. 45⟩times there was one Victorius, a very old Man, converted unto Christianity: the Church would not receive him for some time, for thought they, Old Sinners do not use thus to turn and Live: But he evidenced the Reality of his Conversion, so that they sang Hymns about it, in the Christian Assemblies, and it was every where proclaimed, Victorius is become a Christian! Victorius is become a Christian! Even so may it come to be a shout over the oldest Sinner among you all, That Old Wretch has got a Pardon after all! Behold I have an Order to make an Offer of a Pardon within these, Walls this Day; and in the Name of the Eternal King, I make it unto every Soul among the many hundreds of People here. A Preface once Angrily made by Moses, let me Cheerfully and Joyfully make the Day; Hear ye Rebels: But that which I thus Preface is, The glorious King of Heaven will receive every one of you to Mercy, if you will now at last lay ⟨p. 46⟩down your Arms. I am to assure you There is Hope in Israel concerning this thing. Do not say with them, in Eze. 37•11. Our Hope is lost. No, to all your other Sins, I beseech you add not that of Despair, which will be at least equal to the greatest of them, which you have already perpetrated. What a •efandous. Blasphemy was that of Spira, one of whose Roarings was, My Sin is greater than the Mercy of God!
Remember also that there are some now •riump••ing with God in Heaven that once 〈…〉 〈…〉 of the 〈…〉 same ⟨p. 44⟩Sins which We are now terrified withal. Where is Abraham, that once was an Idolater? what became of Menasseh, the Conjurer? and of Magdalen the Strumpet? Is it not an Epitaph written by the Apostle upon the Grave of Rahab, Rahab the Harlot perished not? yea, did not even some of those that Murder'd the Lord Jesus Christ Himself, afterwards partake in the pardoning vertue of His Blood, which with wicked Hands they had been shedding of? see also 1 Cor.6.9,10,11. And why may not YOU come to be pardoned as well as they, if you tread in their steps, by a serious and sedulous making after it? Perhaps you have been ready to Sin. But it is an Attribute of God, in Neh. 9. 17. He is ready to pardon. Have you gone on a great while in Sin, and grown old and gray, and horribly Ripe in your Evil wayes? yet hear that Charm, in Jer. 3.1. Thou hast played the Harlot with many ••vers, yet Return unto Me saith the Lord. In the primitive ⟨p. 45⟩times there was one Victorius, a very old Man, converted unto Christianity: the Church would not receive him for some time, for thought they, Old Sinners do not use thus to turn and Live: But he evidenced the Reality of his Conversion, so that they sang Hymnsabout it, in the Christian Assemblies, and it was every where proclaimed, Victorius is become a Christian! Victorius is become a Christian! Even so may it come to be a shout over the oldest Sinner among you all, That Old Wretch has got a Pardon after all! Behold I have an Order to make an Offer of a Pardon within these, Walls this Day; and in the Name of the Eternal King, I make it unto every Soul among the many hundreds of People here. A Preface once Angrily made by Moses, let me Chearfully and Joyfully make the Day; Hear ye Rebels: But that which I thus Preface is, The glorious King of Heaven will receive every one of you to Mercy, if you will now at last lay ⟨p. 46⟩down your Arms. I am to assure you There is Hope in Israel concerning this thing. Do not say with them, in
