The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

The Evidence then of our Pardoned State from our being without Guile, ariseth from the inseparable connection there is between these two: and hence it amounts to an infallible Demonstration. So that if the premises be true, the conclusion must needs follow. Now the Connection in the first Proposition is the strongest that can be; form it which way we will, and it •bides true, and reciprocally so. Now the ground of the certainty of this Connection will be made clear in the following Conclusions.

The Evidence then of our Pardoned State from our being without Guile, ariseth from the inseparable connexion there is between these two: and hence it amounts to an infallible Demonstration. So that if the premises be true, the conclusion must needs follow. Now the Connexion in the first Proposition is the strongest that can be; form it which way we will, and it •bides true, and reciprocally so. Now the ground of the certainty of this Connexion will be made clear in the following Conclusions.

1. All those, and none but those that are Converted are forgiven. Conversion is the first saving gift that God bestows on any of the Children of men; this is the primary design of the Gospel Dispensations, Acts 26. 18. When God comes to pursue his Eternal Purpose to any one, he then Converts him, Jer. 31. 3. In which Conversion •e gives men Faith and Repentance, and then a Pardon; Acts 5. 31. It is in Conversion that a quickening ⟨p. 116⟩principle is put into men, and before that they are Dead,