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And this consists of two parts 1. Their public Absolution. 2. The Judg's Pronouncing of them to be Righteous.

And this consists of two parts 1. Their publick Absolution. 2. The Judg's Pronouncing of them to be Righteous.

First: Their public Absolution. Pardon of Sin is the privative part of Justification; Imputation of Righteousness, ⟨p. 134⟩is the positive part. Pardon or Remission is the Sinner's Justification, sc. from sin, both from the guilt of sin, and from the sentence or punishment due to sin. By him (sc. by Christ) all that believe are justified from all things, ¹from which they cannot be justified by the Law of Moses. This now must be one branch of the solemn justification of the Saints at their meeting with the Lord Jesus in the Air; as a Judg, he shall fully and finally, in open Court, Absolve the Saints from all their sins, both guilt and punishment, from which there was no Absolution ever to be expected by the Covenant of works. This truly was done before, initially, at their first Conversion; then were their sins truly and perfectly pardoned, though not (as some too presumptuously affirm) all past, present, and to come, ²(for sin to be pardoned before committed, is somewhat an uncouth doctrine) yet all 1. As to sins already past: 2. All as to the state of Remission; ³they had a perfect right to the pardon of all their sins past, present, and to come, though not an equal investiture; Pardon was theirs, and Absolution theirs, though it was to be applied to them from time to time, upon new acts of Repentance in them; and new acts of Intercession in the Mediator; and so likewise, by new acts of Application by the Spirit: thus the Saints were truly pardoned at the first moment of their Regeneration, or new Birth, And