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And it is his will that his own members be punished by correction, notwithstanding his sufferings: As many as he loveth he doth rebuke and chasten: And Christ doth not wrong himself: The end of his suffering never was to excuse the redeemed from all suffering, nor to make believers lawless.

Cont. 29. Is a man after his regeneration and Faith, ever obliged to any but temporal punishments, or need to ask pardon of any other?

Ans. Obliged is a word that needeth explication: The very Law of nature yet in force maketh everlasting punishment due to a believers sins, till God forgive them: But they are forgiven, (and ⟨p. 49⟩the obligation dissolved) through Christ by the Covenant of Grace to a true believer as soon as committed (at least if they be mere sins of infirmity) because of his general repentance and continued faith: But yet in order of nature the Guilt and dueness of punishment is before the remission of them. And believers must ask pardon while they live. 1. Because every sin thus needeth it; and asking is part of the expression of that faith and repentance which is our condition of pardon. 2. They must ask the continuance of that pardon which they have. 3. And they must ask still for executive remission; which is, not to punish, poena d•mni vel sensus; Body or Soul, and so for more of Gods forfeited Grace and Spirit, and the sense of his Love, and Communion with him.

Ans. Obliged is a word that needeth explication: The very Law of nature yet in force maketh everlasting punishment due to a believers sins, till God forgive them: But they are forgiven, (and ⟨p. 49⟩