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1. Doubting as it signifieth only A not-believing that our sins are pardoned and we shall be saved, is no sin (still remember that I take Believing in the strict proper sense, for The Crediting of a Divine Testimony or Assertion) For ⟨p. 199⟩God hath no where commanded us ordinarily to Believe either of these. I say Ordinarily (as I did in the Proposition before) because when Christ was on earth he told a man personally Thy sins are forgiven thee (whether he meant only as to the present disease inflicted for them, or also all punishment, Temporal and Eternal, I will not now discuss) so Nathan from God told David, His sin was forgiven: But these were Privileges only to these persons, and not common to all. God hath no where said, either that All mens sins are actually forgiven; or that yours or mine by name are forgiven: But only that All that Believe are forgiven: which supposeth them to Believe before they are forgiven, and that they may be forgiven; and therefore it is not true that they are forgiven before they Believe: and therefore this faith is not a Believing that they are forgiven, but a Believing on Christ for forgiveness. Else men must Believe an Untruth to make it become True by their Believing it.

1. Doubting as it signifieth only A not-believing that our sins are pardoned and we shall be saved, is no sinne (still remember that I take Believing in the strict proper sense, for The Crediting of a Divine Testimony or Assertion) For ⟨p. 199⟩God hath no where commanded us ordinarily to Believe either of these. I say Ordinarily (as I did in the Proposition before) because when Christ was on earth he told a man personally Thy sinnes are forgiven thee (whether he meant only as to the present disease inflicted for them, or also all punishment, Temporal and Eternal, I will not now discuss) so Nathan from God told David, His sinne was forgiven: But these were Priviledges only to these persons, and not common to all. God hath no where said, either that All mens sinnes are actually forgiven; or that yours or mine by name are forgiven: But only that All that Believe are forgiven: which supposeth them to Believe before they are forgiven, and that they may be forgiven; and therefore it is not true that they are forgiven before they Believe: and therefore this faith is not a Believing that they are forgiven, but a Believing on Christ for forgivenesse. Else men must Believe an Untruth to make it become True by their Believing it.