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Q. Whether is the soul able to forgive trespasses to others, before the Lord forgive its trespasses?

Q. Whether is the soule able to forgive trespasses to others, before the Lord forgive its trespasses?

A. No, our forgiving others doth not go before our own forgiveness: ⟨p. 128⟩God must first forgive us before we can forgive others, because it is a work of grace to do this as God requires, and it comes from a gracious disposition of soul which God must put in us before we can do it, for sanctification follows Justification. Now to forgive trespasses is a work of obedience, flowing from sanctification, which sanctification follows Justification; as a man should say, a tree brings forth fruit from the sap in the root.

A. No, our forgiving others doth not goe before our owne forgivenesse: ⟨p. 128⟩God must first forgive us before wee can forgive others, because it is a worke of grace to doe this as God requires, and it comes from a gracious disposition of soule which God must put in us before wee can doe it, for sanctification followes Justification. Now to forgive trespasses is a worke of obedience, flowing frō sanctification, which sanctification followes Justification; as a man should say, a tree brings forth fruit from the sappe in the roote.

Q. But this is used as a cause: we forgive others, therefore forgive thou us, it seems.

Q. But this is used as a cause: we forgive others, therefore forgive thou us, it seemes.