The truly blessed man

5. He must turn unto God. This is the term to which all true Repentance leads, so God points them, Jer. 4.1. If you will return, return to me; if a man leaveth off one sin, and dive•t•th to another, this is only a traversing of his way ▪ and proveth that he hath left no sin heartily. Now in our turning from Sin to God, there are two things aimed at, without both which there is no acceptable turning, and both of them call for confession; we turn to him for his favour, and that we may obtain reconciliation, and we ••ek of him pardon, which that we may gain, ⟨p. 228⟩he expecteth our hearty confession; and we do it with a full purpose to devote our selves to his Service thence forward, and that presumes a confession that we have before been uneven in it, and seek of him grace to carry it more uprightly afterwards, Psal. 80.18.

10. The Glory of God is much concerned in this Confession. It is suitably accommodated to the way in which God will exalt his name in the Salvation of Sinners; for,

1. Forgiveness of Sins is an act of Gods free favour to the Sinner. He was fallen under the Condemnation of the Law, and into the hand of Revenging Justice, the Sentence was past upon him that he must die, and it was righteous: he himself was utterly unable to satisfy for his own Guilt, nor was there a ransom price to be found in heaven or earth, among created beings, that would answer the demands of Justice, or buy off his penalty from him: If ever then he be delivered from the Wrath to come God must provide his own Satisfaction, and confer it upon the Sinner, gratis, and he must have it without money and price: Gods pardon is bestowed for his own name sake,