• • I Su.'. 18 TriumphofFa;ith- 197 born, when 'Chrift diet!, ihould be ble.l.fed, and juftified before we be born. Now, in this which 1s formally the J ufiification of the believing finner, the Believers Perfon is accepted, reconciled, juftified, and really tr~n!lated by a Lawchange, from one State to another : I mean n@t, that there is a phyfical Infufion ofa new habit of "Santl:ification, and 'an Expulfiqn of an old habit, as Papijls teach, confounding Regeneration, or Sanctification, with J ufi:ification. But there ' is / ,a real change of the State of the Perfon, 1 Cor. vi. I r. And fuch were fome of J'OU ; but Je are ~'afhed, but ye are San8ified, but ye are iufl.ijied, &c.. then they were fometime ~ot-jufl:ified. 2. There is here a real removal of all fins, and a Pardon and Relaxtion frmn the etern;:-.1 Punifhment of all !ins ; as well of fins to come, and not vet committed, as of :fins paft, prefent, and alre~dy committed, fo as . fins not yet committed fhall no more involve the Believer in the Punifhment of erenal Wrath, than fins paft, or prefent. Yet, 3• The fins not C?mmitted, ·though virtually 'Parcloned, (with Corretl:ion and SubmiH1on) are not 'formally pardoned: That which is not fin at al1, but only in a naked potency, it muft be par-' doned only in that Notion that it is a fin, and not £rft formally remitted, and then afterward committed; yet it is paid for, and the Perfon freed from all a<.'tual Condemnation for it: But withal, r.onditionally and virtually, fo be believe in Chrift, and renew his Re- .pentance, which Gr~ces God fhall infallibly give him, becaufe the c.aUing and Gifts of God are without Repentance ' And ofthis thir.d removal of fin , is that Petition which Chrift bath taught juftified Perfons to ask of God : Forgive us our . N 3 fins
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