370 RepsntAnte no_Condition of 7uftifite;tton. C H A P. 26; Lnl;. i3. v. 3, 5. & ofthis place , we will have occafion to fpeak afterward. The next he citeth is Ate. 3: 19. repent ye therefore , .& be converted , that your fin: may be blotted out , when tb2 timer of refresh:rag shall cone from the prefrnce -of the Lord. Anj. But (I) Repent here can not be meaned of the aEting of that . Repentance , whereof we are here fpeaking , to wit, of thâp particular & .fpecial grace , which is diftinLt from Faith , & that becau'Ce t ffhe exegetical tertre added, & be converted. So that Repent here can ienotinothing elfe, but a turning from all their finful opinions & wayes , and art eunbraceing the Gofpel way of Salvation , that thereby they may be Paved for ever. And,(2) Neither is the.A- pottle fpeaking here of conftttutive juttification , or of.aur firft general Pardon; butofa blotting, out of fins a long time hereafter, ^to twit, when the times of refreshing shall come from the pretence of the Lord, at his fecond coming, as the following verfes spew. So that (3) As by this blotting out of filar , á1l the fa roars & great re wards of free.grace , which the R;ghteous judge will give in that day , are fi;nified , or comprehended under it , which he mentioned efpecially , that it might fuite the charge,of . the grievous guilt of killing the Prince of life , which he was laying home upon them ; fo under the.ot her two termes, of Repenting & being Courted 'whole the of the duties,_ required in the Gofpel, are w be uuderttood. rfdt Gé faid. That Repent & beConvertedis as much as Repent & beleeve , & (o the Particular grace of Repentance is here uuder1Iood: I AnJ; (i)1 hen it will follow , that neither are conditions of Pardon here: but both are re- quired in order to Pardon at the great day , when Chritt shall come agaiue; fir the blotting out of fins, here mentioned , is laid to be at that time., as the following words .dear. (2) This will fay only ( though it were the true -Meaning thereof, as it is not ) that Repentance is required of thofe,. that would expect of Chritt Pardon at hisfecond coming , as well as faith ; which we deny riot. (.3) This Repentaiice should not be compleet Gofpe] Repen- tance , becaufe it is anceriour to Converfion., or to Faith , while As the belt part of true Repentance followeth , as we cleared above. 0 bj.2. He e teth next Ali. 2: 33- Repent dsbebap : every one of you,- for the rem,i,(jionof fins. Anf. (.i) This would plead -for Rpentance alone, with- out Faith. (2) it would plead for as great an interelt for l3aptifire, as for Repentance : Neither of which can be owned, as true. Therefore the true meanitrgof the.place is , Turn fr orri your former-way of feekirg falvation, by your own corrupt Imaginations.& Superftitions, which led you , out of blinde zeal to crucifie the Lord Chritt; 84 embrace the Gofpel of Salva- . tion , now preached to you through that Lord , whom ye crucified that ye tray receive Remif lion of fins, through, Faith in him; & be baptized , that you may havethe outward ligne of your profcfling of hàving Remiftion of fins through. him , &a leal of Remiffion granted to you , through him. And this may be cleared from the prómife fubloincd , d," ye shall rcceure the gift of the bsiy Ghofi, which is no where promifrd Unto Repentance; but unto the faith of the Gofpel, and the receiving of Chritt therein, & was accor- dingly be!towed Ali. S : i2.with 1 5 , 1 7. & 9: 1 7. & 13: 52. & 15: 7, 3. & 19, 1: 2, 6. And what Peter exhorted them unto, they did verf. 4r. And what
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