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Updated: May 23, 2025
There is but one thing that limits the divine pardon, and that is continuous rejection of it. Whoever seeks to be pardoned is pardoned. III. The manner of the divine forgiveness. He pardoned, but He also inflicted punishment, and in both He loves equally. 'Thou wast a God that forgavest them and tookest vengeance of their inventions, says a psalmist in reference to this very incident.
Thou wast a God that forgavest them, though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. Rutherford also was forgiven, and the only vengeance that God took of his inventions, the irregularities of his youth, was taken in the form of a 'waled cross. 'I might have been proclaimed on the crown of the causey, says Rutherford, 'but He has so waled my cross and His vengeance that I am suffering not for my sin but for His name. What a life hid with Christ in God he must live, who, like Rutherford, takes all his trials on earth as a transmuted and substituted cross for his sins: and who is able to take all his deserved and demanded chastisements in the shape of inward and spiritual and sanctifying pain.
I acknowledge my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
'Come hither, Dorothy, he returned kindly, 'and sit thee down by my side. Thou wast right good to my little Molly. Thou hast been a ministering angel to Raglan and its people. I did thee wrong, and thou forgavest me with a whole heart.
The extreme severity of the results of our sins does not fall on penitent, believing spirits, but some do fall. As the Psalmist says: 'Thou wast a God that forgavest them though Thou tookest vengeance of their inventions. A profligate course of life may be forgiven, but health or fortune is ruined all the same.
At these words all present lifted up their hands to heaven, and Ali said, "O God, I beseech thee, for the sake of this chosen apostle, in whose name Adam prayed, and thou answeredst his petition and forgavest his sins, that thou wouldst grant to Abdallah Ebn Kort a safe and speedy return, and assist the followers of thy prophet with help, O thou who alone art great and munificent!"
"When I kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my groaning all the day long. "For day and night Thy hand was heavy upon me; my moisture is turned to the drought of summer. "I acknowledge my sin unto Thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. "I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and Thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin."
And the reason of this kind of confession is, Because this carrieth in it the true nature of confession, to confess, and to abide under the crimes confessed, without shifts and evasions, is the only real simple way of confessions. "I said I would confess my transgressions unto the Lord"; and what then, "and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin." That is the first reason.
'Thou shalt be ashamed and confounded, and never open thy mouth any more, because of thy sins, when' I smite? no 'I am pacified towards thee for all that thou hast done. 'Thou wast a God that forgavest them, and in the very act of forgiving, didst draw them from their sins. That holy love, in like manner, underlies retribution.
'Come hither, Dorothy, he returned kindly, 'and sit thee down by my side. Thou wast right good to my little Molly. Thou hast been a ministering angel to Raglan and its people. I did thee wrong, and thou forgavest me with a whole heart.
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