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A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects
A supplement to the several discourses upon various divine subjects by Stephen Charnock.
London: printed for Thomas Cockerill, 1683
A DISCOURSE OF The Pardon of Sin. › Application 3: 3 Use Of Examination.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
(4.) The Remainders of sin are not a sign of an unpardoned state. Though a Disease be mastered by Physic, there may be some grudgings of it in a person. Though sin be pardoned, yet the dregs of sin will be remaining, and sometimes stirring. Christ hath enlivened us, not by wholly destroying, but pardoning sin. Pardon takes away the guilt of sin; grace takes away the power of sin; but neither pardon, nor infusion of grace, takes away the nature, and all motions of sin; for in purging out an humour, some dregs still remain behind, Col. 2.13. And you hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
(4.) The Remainders of sin are not a sign of an unpardoned state. Though a Disease be mastered by Physick, there may be some grudgings of it in a person. Though sin be pardoned, yet the dregs of sin will be remaining, and sometimes stirring. Christ hath enliven'd us, not by wholly destroying, but pardoning sin. Pardon takes away the guilt of sin; grace takes away the power of sin; but neither pardon, nor infusion of grace, takes away the nature, and all motions of sin; for in purging out an humour, some dregs still remain behind, Col. 2.13. And you hath he quickened together with him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
3. What are the true signs of a pardoned man?
1. Sincerity in our walk. A Spirit without guile, is made the Character of a pardoned man in the Text: There may be failings in the life, yet no guile in the heart; such a man is a pardoned man: A heart that hath no mixtures, no pretences or excuses for sin, no private reserves from God: A heart, that as the needle in a Compass, stands right for the Interest & glory of God, & answers to the profession, as an Echo to the voice: A heart that would thrust out any sin that harboured there, would not have an Atom of any filth odious to the Eye of God lurk there. Where this sincerity is, a willingness and readiness to obey God, (which is the condition of the Covenant) the substance of the Covenant is kept, though some particular Articles of it may be broken. Grace, the pardoning grace of God, is with them that love Christ in sincerity,