It is grace, because nothing but grace and mercy can forgive. God is just, but it is not justice that doth pardon sin; Justice taketh vengeance for sin, it will not spare our misdeeds; but grace taketh pity and forgiveth. Againe, it is grace, because we have nothing to satisfie withall for the evils which we have done, and therefore there is the more grace to us in pardoning. Againe, there is grace in it, because God hath power in his hand to take vengeance; He doth not passe by sin, as men doe offences, when they dissemble forgivenesse, because they cannot tell how to be avenged, and yet carry rancor and malice in their hearts, but God forgives, though he hath power to destroy and take vengeance, as Deut. 32.35.

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