CHAPTER VI. Pardoning Mercy and the Well of God's Everlasting Love
difficulties when God comes to pardon thy soul for sin, than in any service whatever that Cod requires of thee; thou look'st upon the service of God, and there are many difficulties in it; be contented, do not complain, for God past through many difficulties to pardon thy sin; and this is another consideration, the difficulties God passes through to pardon sin, is a great Argument that that soul is blessed that hath his iniquities forgiven.
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Pardoning Mercy and the Well of God's Everlasting Love When God comes to pardon sin, it is such a mercy as comes from the fountain of God's Everlasting Love ; other mercies do not; where this is not, you cannot make them Evidences of God's eternal love; if God give you health of body, good voyages at Sea, and good comings in in respect of the world, you cannot draw Arguments from hence, that God bears eternal love to your souls. But when he comes to pardon your sins, it is a certain evidence, that God hath set his love on thee from all eternity; if there were a chain let down from Heaven, and thou couldest take hold but of one link, it would certainly bring thee thither, both ends would come together. Rom. 8.30. here's a chain of many links let down, and if thou canst catch hold of the link of Justification, thou mayest certainly catch hold of Predestination; for all hang together: if thou art justified, then know for certain that thou art a predestinated man or woman; whom God hath set his heart upon from all eternity to do thee good: and this is a great happiness for a poor creature, while he lives in this world, to know that God hath set his heart upon him from all eternity to do him good; and indeed, we can never be at rest until we come to this, if thy heart be right, thou canst not be at rest in the enjoyment of such poor fare as God casts to Reprobates, thou must have other comforts than anything the world can afford; if thy heart be right, thou wilt never