Spiritual Peace and Comfort. 29 i him afterwards. ButI dare not lay my falvation on this. And, if I were no furer ofmy falvation, then I amof thetruth ofthis myJudgement, to fpeak free- ly, my foul would be in a very fad condition. 5. :ut fuppofe it as certain and plain as any word inthe Gofpel, ( that a Jutiified man is never quite Ur:ju(fi- fied) Yet as every new fin brings a new obligation topunifhment ( or elfe they could not be pardoned, as needing no pardon) fo mutt every fin have its particular pardon, ( and confequently the finner a particular Juftification from the Guilt of that fin ) befides his firfi general pardon (and Jufiification ;) ( For to pardon fin before it is committed, is to par.. don fin that is no fin, which is a Contradietion, and Impoflibility.) Now, though for dailyunavoidable Infirmities, there be a pardonof Courfe, upon the Title of our Habitual Faith and Repentance ; yet whether in cafe of Grofs fin,or more notable Defe- &ion, this will prove a fufficient Title to particular pardon, without the addition of atival Repen- tance ; and what Cafe the finner is in till that aetual Repentance and Faith, as I told you before, are fo difficult quefions (it being ordered by Godsgreat wifdom that they Ihould be fo) that it befeems no wife man to venture his falvation on his own opini- on in thefe. Nay its certain, that if Grofs ftnners having opportunity, and knowledge of their fins Repent not,they {hall perifh. And therefore I think, a Jufl;ifiedman hath great Reafon upon filch fats to examine his particular Repentance, (as well as hi's former ffate ) and not to promife himfelf,or prefume upon a pardon without it. 6. And befides all this, though both the Continuanceof Faith , and non-in- Y 2 ter-
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