Looking unto Jesus a view of the everlasting gospel, or, the souls eying of…

For the first, God is said to forgive iniquity when guilt of sin is taken away; and for the second, God is said never more to remember Sin, in that the Sinner, after pardon, is ⟨p. 87⟩never more looked on as a Sinner. Is not this the Covenant? q. d. I will remove thy Sins, and do them away, as if they had never been; I will blot them out of the Book of my Memory; I will obliterate the Writing, that none shall be able to read it. But you will say, If Sin remain still in the Regenerate, How are they so forgiven, as to be remembered no more? Divines tell us of Two Things in every Sin; there is macula & reatus; the Filth, and the Guilt: This Guilt some again distinguish into the Guilt of Sin, which they call the Inward Dignity, and Desert of Damnation; and the Guilt of Punishment, which is the Actual Ordination of a Sinner unto Damnation. Now, in different Respects we say, That Sin remains still in Believers, and Sin doth not remain in Believers: First, If we speak of the Filth of Sin, or of the Desert of Damnation; so it remains still: but if we speak of the actual Obligation of a Sinner to Condemnation, so it remains not after Pardon; but the Sinner is as free as if he had never sinned.

For the first, God is said to forgive iniquity when guilt of sin is taken away; and for the second, God is said never more to remember Sin, in that the Sinner, after pardon, is ⟨p. 87⟩never more looked on as a Sinner. Is not this the Covenant? q. d. I will remove thy Sins, and do them away, as if they had never been; I will blot them out of the Book of my Memory; I will obliterate the Writing, that none shall be able to read it. But you will say, If Sin remain still in the Regenerate, How are they so forgiven, as to be remembred no more? Divines tell us of Two Things in every Sin; there is macula & reatus; the Filth, and the Guilt: This Guilt some again distinguish into the Guilt of Sin, which they call the Inward Dignity, and Desert of Damnation; and the Guilt of Punishment, which is the Actual Ordination of a Sinner unto Damnation. Now, in different Respects we say, That Sin remains still in Believers, and Sin doth not remain in Believers: First, If we speak of the Filth of Sin, or of the Desert of Damnation; so it remains still: but if we speak of the actual Obligation of a Sinner to Condemnation, so it remains not after Pardon; but the Sinner is as free as if he had never sinned.