The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

Hence in the first Justification of believing sinners, all future sins are remitted as unto any actual Obligation unto the Curse of the Law, unless they should fall into such sins as should ipso facto, forfeit their justified estate, and transfer them from the Covenant of Grace, into the Covenant of Works, which we believe that God in his Faithfulness will preserve them from. And although sin cannot be actually pardoned before it be actually committed; yet may the obligation unto the Curse of the Law be virtually taken away from such sins in justified persons as are consistent with a justified estate, or the Terms of the Covenant of Grace, antecedently unto their actual commission. God at once in this ⟨p. 203⟩sense forgiveth all their Iniquities, and healeth all their Diseases, redeemeth their life from Destruction, and crowneth them with loving kindness and mercies, Psal. 103.2, 3. Future sins are not so pardoned as that when they are committed they should be no sins, which cannot be, unless the commanding power of the Law be abrogated. But their respect unto the Curse of the Law, or their power to oblige the justified person thereunto is taken away.

Still there abideth the true nature of sin in every inconformity unto, or transgression of the Law in justified persons, which stands in need of daily actual pardon. For there is no man that liveth and sinneth not, and if we say that we have no sin, we do but deceive our selves. None are more sensible of the Guilt of sin, none are more troubled for it, none are more earnest in supplications for the pardon of it, than justified persons. For this is the effect of the Sacrifice of Christ applied unto the Souls of Believers, as the Apostle declares, Heb. 10.1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 14. that it doth take away Conscience, condemning the Sinner for sin, with respect unto the Curse of the Law; But it doth not take away Conscience, condemning sin in the Sinner, which on all considerations of God and themselves, of the Law and the Gospel, requires Repentance on the part of the sinner, and actual pardon on the part of God.