l'eifeverance i~ Grace~ 179 and1:lrengthned; and all the other graces with it, and by it. And this is brought to pafs, through the communication of new fupplies of grace to them, by ·the Spirit, from Chrifi their Head, from which all tke body haping nourijhment miniflred (namely, through the {upply of the Spirit, Philip. i. 19.) increaftth with the increaft ofGod, Col. ii.' 19. Secondly, The other chief branch ofthis promife, is a promife ·of pardon, continued pardon for the fins of their daily walk; whereby emergent differences .;( betwixt God and them, come to be done away from time to time, (o that a total rupture is prevented. · Jer . . xxxiii. 8. I will pardon all their iniquities ~ · Howbeit the jufiified have, as to their fl:ate, no ne~cJ.... of a new formal pardon, but only a manifefiation of their former pardon ; ·fince the pardon given in jufl:i– fica tion is never revoked, though by means of their after-fins they may lofe fight ·ofit: yet as to their dai– ly 'walk, they have great·. need of a formal pardon, forafmuch as they are daily/ contraB:ing new · guilt~' John xiii. 10. He that is wafhed, needeth not, fave 'to wajh his f~et. For howbeit no fi'ns of the jufiificd .can bring them any more under the guilt of'eternal wrath ; , neverthelefs, they do bring them under the guilt of fatherly anger, Pfal. lxxxix. 30, 31, 32. · And therefore they need to pray every day, Our Fa– ther, Forgive us our debts. This pardon· is given them, upon their renewed . aaings of faith in Jefus .Chrifi, and of repentance to- ' ~ards God: yet not for their believing and repenting; but for Chrifi's fake, even as the firfi pardon is given, 1 John ii. 2. and i. 7· Applying the blood ofChrift afrelh to their fouls, they are anew moved to repen• tance, turning fi·om their fins with hatred of them, .fi>rrow, fuame, and felf-loathing for them. ' Looking by faith on him whom they have pierced, they mourn in renewed repentance ; and fo receive this pardon. , For altho' repentance cloth not go before, .but follows M 3' after
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