The sound believer, or, A treatise of evangelical conversion discovering the work of Christs…The sound beleever, or, A treatise of evangelicall conversion discovering the work of Christs…

Whether all sins, past, present, and to come, are actually forgiven at the first instant of believing, I will not, dare not determine; this is safe to say, 1. That the sentence of pardon of all thy sins, is at an instant, Rom. 8.1. but not the sense, nor execution of pardon: Actual sentence of pardon, not actual application of pardon, till they be actually committed, Col. 2.13. Heb. 9.12. Heb. 10.1, 2. Rom. 3.25. There is a pardon of course (some say) for sins of infirmities, I say there is also a pardon of course for sins of wilfulness, all manner of sins; but not sense of pardon always.

Whether all sins, past, present, and to come, are actually forgiven at the first instant of beleeving, I will not, dare not determine; this is safe to say, 1. That the sentence of pardon of all thy sins, is at an instant, Rom. 8.1. but not the sense, nor execution of pardon: Actuall sentence of pardon, not actuall application of pardon, till they be actually committed, Col. 2.13. Heb. 9.12. Heb. 10.1, 2. Rom. 3.25. There is a pardon of course (some say) for sins of infirmities, I say there is also a pardon of course for sins of wilfulnesse, all manner of sins; but not sense of pardon alwayes.