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Secondly, Pardoning Grace is free, ¹in the special Application of it. Now the Application of Pardon is not made unto any, till the performance of those Conditions upon which Pardon is tendered, and they are Faith and Repentance. Now herein is God's Grace infinitely free, who first fulfils these Conditions in his Children, that so he may fulfil his Gracious Promises unto them of Life and Pardon. The Conditional Covenant of Grace, promises Pardon and Remission of Sins unto all that shall believe and repent: But notwithstanding all this, the whole World might perish under a contracted Impotency, whereby they could not believe nor repent, did ⟨p. 36⟩not the Absolute Covenant engage God's Truth to work Faith and Repentance in the Hearts of his People: S• that one Covenant promiseth Pardon i• we believe and repent, and the other Covenant bestows this Faith and Repentance upon us. The Conditional Covenant promiseth Pardon of sin and Salvation, if we believe and repent and the absolute Covenant promiseth Faith and Repentance to us, to enable us to believe and repent. And what could God do more that might farther express the freeness of his Grace to us, than to pardon upon Condition of Faith and Repentance, which Faith and Repentance he works in us. This is to pardon us as freely as if he had pardoned us without any Faith and Repentance at all.

Secondly, Pardoning Grace is free, ¹in the special Application of it. Now the Application of Pardon is not made unto any, till the performance of those Conditions upon which Pardon is tendred, and they are Faith and Repentance. Now herein is God's Grace infinitely free, who first fulfils these Conditions in his Children, that so he may fulfill his Gracious Promises unto them of Life and Pardon. The Conditional Covenant of Grace, promises Pardon and Remission of Sins unto all that shall believe and repent: But notwithstanding all this, the whole World might perish under a contracted Impotency, whereby they could not believe nor repent, did ⟨p. 36⟩not the Absolute Covenant engag God's Truth to work Faith and Repentance in the Hearts of his People: S that one Covenant promiseth Pardon i we believe and repent, and the other Covenant bestows this Faith and Repentance upon us. The Conditional Covenant promiseth Pardon of sin and Salvation, if we believe and repent and the absolute Covenant promiseth Faith and Repentance to us, to inable us to believe and repent. And what could God do more that might farther express the freeness of his Grace to us, than to pardon upon Condition of Faith and Repentance, which Faith and Repentance he works in us. This is to pardon us as freely as if he had pardon'd us without any Faith and Repentance at all.