(402) 2. To thepurging away the guilt of mortal fins is required a fpe- cial acknowledgement and Confeffion of them, and alio a foecial brief and contrition, Pf. 51, 14. But for the purging away the great- & part of venial fins, our general, but humble, terious and forrovvful acknowledgement ot our corruption, having adjoyned that general deprecation [Cleanse thoume from fecret finsj, is accepted, Pit. 19.12. 3.1 tie Repentance neceffary to the renuffion of mortal fins, and to the falvation of them that commie them, muf I be per- fectly Practical ; that is, it= muff go forth into a real and Actual. Cefiation from all fins of that fort, Prov. 28. Iohn 5. 14. Cor.,6. 9, 10. gal. 5. 21. But contrarywile the Repentance neceffary to the pardon ofvenial fins, neither is, nor can be perfectly practical, as to this kind of fins, &c.j Lcg, gh. p. 3 z, 3 2, & p, 7 2. For now under the Covenant or:Grace, he requireth of a jug ilified man that he ferve him, and fulfill the Law by avoiding all mortall fin fimply, and endeavouring to avoid all venial fin, and ordinarily repenting of them, when he oblerveth that he bath corn., witted them. This is required as a condition abfolutely neceffary to the obtaining ofeternal glory. 39.' Endeline i.c. 19 p. 39 5 , 396. TheGofpel,hovvever taken,hath conditional promises, The Papifis here affent to us, but not without Calumny. For they feign that we make the Golpel promifes to be abfolute. Prop. 2, The Gofpel moil largely taken bath theTromife of eternal life, on eonditio either of faith onely,or faith and new obed eace tote her, or of fulfilling the perfea Law by our own flrength (ar rehearing' the Law Ofwerkf) and fo it maketh inenion nor cnely of the Evangelical condition and Righteorinefs, but of the Legal too, Prcp. 3. The Gol-pel largely taken,hath the p,ronnife ofetetncil ife, on condition of faith and newObedience. Of the ccnd :io of faith there is no doubt : nor of thecondition of new obedience coljunct 'with faith Rom. 8. i 3 Heb, 12. 14, Anictius. 40.AMelia: Medull. L. c. i, fect, 30, 3 r, 3 2, 3 '7. [fn. deed our obedience is not the Principal cr meritorious eaufe of eternal life.For we receive both Right of this Life and the Life
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