Counsel 4.
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Counsel 4.
Seek a Pardon, and seek it BELIEVINGLY. It is to be Enjoyed by none but a Believing Soul.
Seek a Pardon, and seek it BELIEVINGLY. It is to be Enjoy'd by none but a Believing Soul.
To Excite this Faith.
Consider, The proper and only Gospel-way, to a pardon. 'Tis by Faith; as we are minded in Rom.5. 1. We are Justified by Faith. We must Request, and Expect our Pardon to come swimming down unto us in the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ alone; and we must keep our Eye upon Him, under that Notion, in John 1. 29. The Lamb of God which takes away the Sin of the World. We must look upon our Pardon as purchased and procured for us, by the Death of our Lord Jesus Christ, […] in the Eternal Covenant of Redemption En••g'd unto His Father, That He […] make His own Soul an offering for the Sins of all His Chosen ones. We are to take the Merits of the Lord ⟨p. 48⟩Jesus Christ, as they are proffered unto us in the Tenders of the Gospel; and lay the whole Stress of our Guilty Souls thereupon, for ever. It is said in I John 1. 7. The• Blood of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all Sin. Where fore we must Renounce all Dependence upon any Righteousness of our own for our pardon. Let us not place any Trust, in any Good Works, or in any Good Frames of our own, as tho' they could render the Holy God propitious to us. It is said in