The Life of Faith. 317 X. That great and known fins mutt have a particular re- pentance, appearcth, x. In that it is ut tee ly inconfitlent with the fincerity of h,.bitualKepentance, not toba ailual, when ties arc kuwn, and come into our deliberate remembrance. 2. By ail thofè texts which rcgraire fuch repentance, confeffion and tort-aking, s Yam 2. r, 2, 1 John 1.9. Prov. 28.13. Pfal. 32. & 51. 2 Cor. 7. ì e. RCS', 2. 5, 16. Luke 13. 3, S. Jam. 5.14, t 5. Line 6. 37. & 1 t. 4. Repentance confiftcth chiefly in for faking fin; and ifinen forfa}Ze not fuch known wilful flits, they are wickedmen , and therefore are not pardoned. 2. That unavoidable frailties, andmeet infirmities, and un.- known faults, arc pardoned immediately to them that are tru- ly godly, and have a general and implicit Repentance, is plain, becaufe elfe no man in the world could be Caved ; becaufe eve- ry man hath fuch infirmities and unknown fins, a jobs 1. 10. 3. Yet David 'himfclf,is not ,put by his fin into a meet gracelefs flare, and as a perfon that hath no former Juflifiea- lion ; for he prayeth God not to take his Spirit from him, and he was not deprived of the true love to God, which is the character ofGods children : But he had incurred heinousguilt, and put himfelf in the way towards utter damnation, and canted a nectflìty ofa more particular neap Repentance before he could befully pardoned, than elfeheneeded. Bcfote the world had a Saviour, we were all fo far unpar- doned, that afatisfying Sacrifice was neccífary to our Jul-briers- lion : But afterward, all enea arc fo far pardoned, that only the Acceptance of what is purchafed and freely (though con- ditionally) given, is neceffary to it. Before men arc con- verted, they arc yet fo far unpardoned, that (though no more Sacrifice be neceffary, yet) a totalconvey fon and renovation, by turning from a life of fin to God by Faith in Chriff, is neccffary . to their actual jutlification and forgivcnefs. When a man is turned from a life of fin to God, and liVeth in the Hate of grace, all his following fins, which confift- with the loving of God and holinefs above the world and finful pleafures, are fe far forgiven immediately upon the committing, that they need neither another Sacrifice, nor another Regeneration, or 7u ification (quoad flaunt) but only an ailing of that Faith R r 3 and
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