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Rh burthens, Gal. vi. 1, 2. He will forgive, not only till seven times, but seventy times seven, Matth. xviii. 21, 22. It put the faith of the apostles to it to believe this, Luke xvii. 4,5. Because we are hard to forgive, we think Christ is hard.

We see sin great, we think Christ doth so; and measure infinite love with our line, infinite merits with our sins, which is the greatest pride and blasphemy, Psal. ciii. 11, 12. Isa. xl. 15. Hear what he saith, I have found a ransom, Job. xxxiii. 24. In him I am well pleased, Matth. iii. 17. God will have nothing else; nothing else will do thee good, or satisfy conscience, but Christ, who satisfied the Father. God doth all upon the account of Christ. Thy deserts are hell, wrath, and rejection. Christ’s deserts are life, pardon, and acceptation. He will not only shew the one, but he will give thee the other. It is Christ’s own glory and happiness to pardon. Consider whilst Christ was on the earth, he was more among publicans and sinners, than among Scribes and Pharisees, his professed adversaries, for they were righteous ones. It is not as thou imaginest, that his state in glory makes him neglectful of, or scornful to poor sinners; no, he hath the same heart now in heaven, he is God, and changeth not: He is the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of