SER. 18 Triumph of Faith~ 199 thus, There's a CathoJick Pardon in a Statute of' Parliament, for Grace to all Traitors. and that fur 1'l'eafons pa11, and alfo to come, upon Corldirion, that after new Treaions committed, they • addrefs,themfdves to the publick R~gifter of the State, and caufe infert their Names in the blankr <sf that AB: of Grace printed, and in the keeping of fome Officer of State; If>w though any one be pardoned ~t his 6rft lapft: fully, if he tall again, and again, and yet perform the Condition, pre- :fcribed in Law; we cannot fay, he bath obtamed twer.ty, a hundre9, yea, as many {everal pardons of Grace, a'> he hath failed againft: King and State, 'tis but one publick Act of Grace made . ufe of feveral times, ; fo here 1n the Gofpel, there is a ~ritten Act of theGrace of God in Y~fosCbrijl; RemJffion to all uuder the Treafon of fin againft the royal Crown a·nd Glory of the m~fl: High, the 'fupreme Law-Giver, and that to th~· ·Acccaptation of the Perfon of the Traitor in fq}L Favour, when he fhall have in his Confcience the tranfumpt or tranfcript of it at firft, and alio for Grace and Pardon of all after-i]ips, and fins againft the Glory of the Redeemer (fo he fin not againft the only Flower of the Prerogative-Royal, the Op~ration ofthe Holy Ghoft in a ipecial :Manner) upon Condit:on he walk from Fanh to Faith, and renew .his ad4refs to Chrift the great Lord of ...rhe Rolls, who keepeth the Book of Life ; now I Ca.onot fee here manyPardoqs ofGrace,but onlythe dodbleExtract orCopy of the firft A a offreeGrace Obj. z. Yiut the fin~ pardoned to tbe j uflijietJ Per [on after the firfl Juflification of his PerJon, rz~'ere nev~r pardoned before, and theJ' are n'ow p~rdoned, therefore there mufl be t:u·o .7uftijicationl• .An[. They were ·vir~ua!iy pardoned, and ,;, N 4 ' io t'. . ' , ' I I
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