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Yea, but my sins are such and such; innumerable heinous, and most abominable. I am guilty of sins of all sorts!

6. He forgives iniquity, transgression, and sin. He is the God that will subdue all your iniquities, and cast all your sins into the bottom of the sea, Micah vii. 19.

Yea, but I renew my sins daily!

7. I answer out of the Psalm - His mercy is an everlasting mercy, his mercy endures for ever, Psa. cxviii. 1; he bids you to ask forgiveness of sin daily, Matt. vi. 11; therefore he can and will forgive sin daily; yea, if you sin seventy times seven in a day, Luke xvii. 4; Matt. xviii. 22; and shall confess it to God with a penitent heart, he will forgive; for he that bids you be so merciful to your brother, will himself forgive much more, when you seek unto him.

But I have not only committed open and gross sins, both before and since I had knowledge of God; but I have been a very hypocrite, making profession of God, and yet daily committing grievous sins against him!

8. What then? Will you say your sins are unpardonable? God forbid. But say, I will follow the counsel which God gave to such abominable hypocrites. Wash ye, make you clean, Isa. i. 16. I will, by God's grace, wash my heart from iniquity, and my hands from wickedness, Jer. iv. 14, by washing myself in the laver of regeneration, bathing myself in Christ's blood, and in the pure water of the word of truth, applying myself to them, and them to me by faith. Say in this case I will hear what God will speak, Psa. lxxxv. 8. And know, that if you will follow his counsel, if you will hearken to his reasoning, and embrace his gracious offer made to you in Christ Jesus, the issue will be this, though your sins have been most gross, double dyed, even as crimson and scarlet; they shall be as wool, even white as snow, Isa. i. 18. God will then speak peace unto you, as unto others of his saints; only he will forbid you to return to folly.