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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61837	Balm in Gilead, or, A spur to repentance as it was lately delivered in a sermon by James Strong ...	Strong, James, 1618 or 19-1694.	1676 (1676)	Wing S5989_VARIANT; ESTC R34626	15,886	50

there is somewhat more reason to expect pardon I do not suppose it necessary here to prove a difference between sins That stoical opinion that there is a parity or equality among all sins hath in all ages been justly exploded as an errour out of the Church He that list may read the Question debated at large in Aquin. prima secund Q. 73. Art 2. Let it satisfie us That though no sin in it self can possibly be small that is committed against the great God yet some sins are more sinful than other and such was the sin for which the Psalmist here begs pardon when he calls it a great sin John 19. 11. This only by the by I shall return to the assertion Let us weigh the case and we shall see mercy so magnified in the pardon of sin that we shall see cause sufficient to magnifie the riches of Gods grace and shame our selves that ever we dared to measure divine compassions by the short line of corrupt reason Musculus on the words thus debates the matter Quid hoc facit ad impetrandum remissionem c. How should the greatness of sin be an argument to provoke God to pardon Certainly with men it would be an argument to hinder pardon and not to procure it should I tell a man Sir I have done you a very great wrong and therefore I hope you 'l pardon me Yet hear and wonder with God 't is not so That which reason would make an argument to drive us to despair faith improves as a ground of hope We see here an eminent Believer plead for pardon by an argument taken from the greatness of his sin which among distressed Consciences is the common reason why men conclude their case desparate Reas. 1. As every sin hath more need of pardon by how much the greater it is so God hath the more glory by forgiving it The deeper is the wound the more mortal is the sickness and the more need the Patient hath of Curing and if the Physician work a cure the greater is his Honour God that great Physician never gets so much glory as by pardoning great sins The greatness of our sin doth commend the greatness of Divne Mercy For where sin abounds grace much more abounds Rom. 5. 20 21 that is where sin abounds with the sense sorrow and detestation of it there grace much more abounds As the sins of wicked men by their greatness do commend the Justice of God in punishing them so the great sins of Believers do commend the Mercy of God in pardoning them 'T is storied of Alexander when he was to attempt any Service that was more difficult and dangerous than ordinary he was wont to say This is a work fit for Alexander 'T is a great God that we have to do with and great things become him His ways are not as ours nor his thoughts as ours Reas. 2. As in pardoning great sins God advances his glory by a discovery of his Mercy so also by ingaging the pardoned Sinner to returns of duty 'T is said of Mary Magdalen she loved much because much was forgiven her Luk. 7. 47. Whose heart is so enlarged or whose mouth is so widened in blessing God as he who hath had larger experience than ordinary of Divine Mercy Reas. 3. Another reason may be drawn from our own necessity For the greater is our sin the more need we have of Mercy and Pardon Men do not send to the Physician for every light distemper but if the disease be sharp they are the more instant and cry out Do something or I die Even thus the Psalmist comes running to God as a wounded man that is every moment bleeding himself to death Heal my soul for I have sinned against thee Psal. 41. 4. And elsewhere Mine iniquities prevail against me c. Psal. 65. 3. Reas. 4. A fourth argument may be drawn from the Merits of Christ. Were the Death and Sufferings of Christ of force only to deliver us from some lesser sins this would darken the glory of Chirsts sufferings but his blood cleanseth us from all sin 1 John 1. 7. Nullum proinde est peccatum in sanctis quod per sanguinem Christi non remittatur saith Zanchy There is no sin then in Believers 〈◊〉 is not pardoned in Christ and thence infers that a Believer can never possibly commit the sin against the Holy Ghost Oh what unworthy thoughts have we all by nature of the sufferings of the Son of God which were the price of our redemption When the Apostle would shew the excellency of this ransome he searches the hidden treasures of the earth and throws aside silver and gold as base drossie stuff unworthy to be compared with this in 1 Pet. 1. 18 19 Ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation but with the precious blood of Christ c. To raise our hearts a little to some suitable conceptions of the worth of this sacrifice I would but a little ingage your thoughts in considering these dreadful and stupendious concomitants of the Lord Jesus sufferings When Christ was expiring even Nature it self lay gasping The Sun hid his head in a black mantle as ashamed to behold those base indignities that were done to the Sun of Rig●●eousness The earth quaked The ●●cks were rent The graves opened c. Insomuch that 't is reported That that arch Atheist Porphiry cried out Aut natura dissoluitur aut Deus nature patitur Either nature it self expireth or the God of nature suffereth Well what low thoughts soever we have of the Death of Christ yet God will have us know that the Manhood of Christ only suffered yet the Person that suffered was God and Man And then the vertue of Christs Death is known when 't is applied and improved Phil. 3. 10. Reas. 5. A fourth argument may be drawn from the Covenant of Grace And this is of as large extent as the Death of Christ in whom the Covenant is made Read Jer. 33. 8 I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me yea I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned against me c. What sins doth God promise to pardon Some and not all less and not greater No such thing the Covenant makes no difference Every sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men Mat. 12. 31. All without exception gross enormities as well as lesser infirmities As the Sun scatters the thickest mist as well as the least vapour even so God promises to blot the sins of his people though they are as thick as a cloud Isa. 44. 22. We read in John 7. 23 That Christ made a man every whit whole on the Sabbath day Christ did not heal him in part such are all God cures whenever he takes a poor sinner in hand There 's no disease can stand before him Omnipotenti medico nullus morbus est insanabilis No disease is incurable when we are in