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6phefaans,Chap.i.
V
ER.7.
through
infirmity
;
for the covenant
of
God
is
to forgive
us
our
fns
;
and
to rememberthem
no more
;
Now
who
(hall
limit this to
finnes
paft
beforeconverfron, when
God
fpeaketh it indefinitely, and when
fuch
a
partiall forgiveneffe may
be,
and
yet the
fins
forgiven
come
a-
gaine
to
be
remembred
?
Col.a.
God
bath freely
pardoned
unto
to
All
our
Idm
tZ4
finnes
;
He
doth
fee
no iniquity
in his
Iacob,
he
to whom
things
tocome,
Hebr'
offendeers
once
and
things
prefent
aft are alike
The
remiffion
which
leaveh no place
p
purged
11141
for condemnation,muft
needes
be
of
all finnes
:
But we being in
Chrift,
have no more
are fo
remitted,
that
now there
is
no condemnation
to
us,
though
we
conference
of
8nne,
daily
finne,through the
&ill
which dwelleth with us.
That
juftification
betweene which
and
the giving
of
eternall
life
or
glorification nothing
commeth
,
that
is
from
all
finnes
:
But
who
fo
believeth, bath
fuch
a
forgiveneffe,
that
he receiveth eter-
nall
life
;
or
is
fo juftified,
that
he
is
prefently glorified
with
the
beginning
of
glory.
Againe,webeleeving,
receive
that
forgiveneffe
of
finne,which
Chrift
hath
obtained by
his
blood for
us
:
but
this was
a
full
remiffon
of
all
our finnes,
from the
firft
to the
laft
of
them
:
Betide
that, the
redemp-
tion
and righteoufneffe
Chrift doth bring
are
everlafting,He6r.9.which
they
couldnot be
if
our
remiffion were
but
of
finnes
paft;for then fhould
every confequent
fin
make
us
againe
unrighteous,til we were
reftored.If
the
fin
prefent
at our converfions
be fuch
as
cannot be done away with
-
out the forgiving thofe
that follow, then
wehave forgiveneffe
ofboth;
but our
fin
dwelling
in us is filch
that
it cannot
be forgiven, but all the
ref
mull
be forgiven likewife,for all
the other
are in it,as an effe6t in
the
caufe,the
caufeas
the
fruit
is
in a
tree, and the
guilt
of
the corruption pre
-
fent
reacheth to the laft frn,which
is
to
fpring from ir,and
ergo
it
is
fure,
that
when
God forgiveth
us
this, he doth forgive
us all
other
likewife,
which he
doth
fee are
in it
, and will
in
time
illbue
from
ir.
Did
not God
covenant with us,believing,to forgive all our finnes,and
Peale
this Grace
by
Baptifme,
all
I fay,paft, prefent,
to
come, then
we
could not
helpe
our
(elves
in
our after
fall, by looking to that grace
fealed in Baptifme,
for that
was helpfull for
the
finnes
committed beforeit onely,which
is
contrary to
all
good
experience and
dottrine.
Againe, were
a
manpar-
doned for
fins
pail only,then
muff we
grant
that
either he may quite
fall
from
his union
with
Chrift, or
be
in
Chrift,
and
yet be
fubje&
to
con-
demnation: And
if
we had not pardon
of
finnes after
committed,
as
well
as
before, whence commeth
it
that
dailymany
finnes
of
infirmity
efcape
us,the
peace
which followeth our juftification,not once difturbed
by them r
If
any
fay
we have pardon
of
thofe
fins
for after, without
'
which none liveth, but not
of
crimes more
grievous; this
is
to
yeelde
what they pleafe,
and
to
delft
where they pleafe, without any motive
from
reafon.
Neither
cloth
that
parable teach
that God
forgiveth
us
our
finnes
before our converfion, but not
finnes
after, which he
doth
charge upon
us
at
his
pleafure
;
for
the
letter
of
the
parable
doth,
if
it
be
followed,
feeme
to
found
as
if
God might
requireour
finnes
after
thofe
finnes
whichbefore he
had forgiven us, and
fo
did
forgive
us now
abfolurely,