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3. That the Lord shall be pacified eternally, never to cast thee off again for any Sins or Miseries thou fallest ⟨p. 208⟩into, this is wonderful: Those whom Men love they forsake, if their Love be abused; or if their Friends be in Affliction, they then bid them good Night; but the Lord's Love and Favour is everlasting, Isai. 9.7. The Mountains may depart out of their Places, and the Hills cast down to Valleys, but the Lord's Kindness never shall, never can; he hath hid his Face a little Moment, Isai. 45.10. whiles thou didst live in thy Sin and Unbelief, but now, with everlasting Mercy will he embrace thee; nay, which is more, the abounding of thy Sin is now the Occasion of the abounding of his Grace, Rom. 5.20. thy very Wants and Miseries are the very Causes of his Bowels and tender Mercies, Heb. 4.15, 16. Oh what a Privilege is this? Did the Lord ever show Mercy and Favour to the Angels that sinned? Did not one Sin cast them out of Favour utterly? Oh infinite Grace, that so many Thousand Thousands every Day gushing out of thy Heart against Kindness and Love, nay the greatest dearest Love of God, should not incense his sorest Displeasure against thee! The Lord that poured out all his Anger upon his own Son for thee, and for all thy Sins, cannot now pour out, nay he hath not one Drop left, (though he would) to pour out upon thee for any one Sin.

3. That the Lord shall be pacified eternally, never to cast thee off again for any Sins or Miseries thou fallest ⟨p. 208⟩into, this is wonderful: Those whom Men love they forsake, if their Love be abused; or if their Friends be in Affliction, they then bid them good Night; but the Lord's Love and Favour is everlasting, Isai. 9.7. The Mountains may depart out of their Places, and the Hills cast down to Valleys, but the Lord's Kindness never shall, never can; he hath hid his Face a little Moment,