The truly blessed man

4. He is grieved at your unbelief and despondency. He takes it ill that troubled Sinners should question the truth of his protestations: that they should rather credit Satan's discouragements, than his invitations; that when their adversary tells them, ⟨p. 272⟩there is no hope, you have sinned beyond a pardon, he shall be believed, and that when he himself tells them, he hath a pardon provided, and it shall be theirs upon acceptance, that he is a merciful God, and is willing to be reconciled, they should suppose he meaneth not as he saith; this unbelief grieves his Holy Spirit, and you have grieved him enough already.

4. He is grieved at your unbelief and despondency. He takes it ill that troubled Sinners should question the truth of his protestations: that they should rather credit Satans discouragements, than his invitations; that when their adversary tells them, ⟨p. 272⟩there is no hope, you have sinned beyond a pardon, he shall be believed, and that when he himself tells them, he hath a pardon provided, and it shall be theirs upon acceptance, that he is a merciful God, and is willing to be reconciled, they should suppose he meaneth not as he saith; this unbelief grieves his Holy Spirit, and you have grieved him enough already.

5. He asks nothing of you to purchase this forgiveness. You are apt to say, What shall I bring? I have nothing, I can do nothing to procure it, and this disheartens you, but without reason, for he knows your poverty, and so hath himself laid in for that: the work is already done; Justice is satisfied; the demands of the Law are answered, Jesus Christ hath gone through that Province, and nothing is left to be done by •ou; he therefore expects that you come empty handed, Isa. 55.1. And if you think to bring any thing with you, and lay in for it, it will be the ready way to be rejected: it is his Grace that he seeks to exalt in your forgiveness, and you must comply with it.