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impossible with man, is possible with God, Matt. xix. 26. Is any thing too hard for the Lord, Gen. xviii. 14. He can alter and renew you, and give you faith and repentance; he can make these things possible to you that believe; yea, all things are possible to him that believes, Mark ix. 23.

Yes, you will say, If I did believe. Why, what if you do not believe? It is not hard with him, if you come to his means of faith, if you hearken to the precepts and promises of the word, and consider that the God of truth speaks in them; I say, it is not hard for him, in the use of these means, to cause you to believe.

Wherefore neither greatness of sin, nor multitude of sins should, because of their greatness and multitude make you utterly despair of salvation, or fear damnation; when once you can believe, or but will and desire to obey and believe, Isa. i. 19, the great cause of fear is past.

I know if you never had sinned, you would not fear damnation. Now to a man whose sins are remitted, his sins, though sin dwell in him, Rom. vii. 20, are as if they were not, or never had been. For they are blotted out of God's remembrance. I, even I am he, saith God, that blots out thy transgressions, for my name's sake, and will not remember thy sins, Isa. xliii. 25. And who is like thee, saith the prophet, that pardons iniquities, &c.; he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities, and will cast all our sins into the bottom of the sea, Micah vii. 18, 19. A debt when it is paid by the surety, puts the principal out of debt, though he paid never a penny of it himself. The Holy Ghost speaks most comfortably, saying, that God finds no sin in them whose sins are pardoned, Rev. xiv. 5. In those days, and at that time, saith the Lord, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none, and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found; but how may this be? He gives the reason, for I will pardon them whom I reserve, Jer. l. 20.

If you believe that God can pardon any sin, even the least, you have like reason to believe that God can