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The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without…
The greatest sinners exhorted and encouraged to come to Christ, and that now without delaying. Also, the exceeding danger of men's deferring their repentance. : Together with a discourse about the day of judgement. And on several other subjects. / By Increase Mather teacher of a church at Boston in N. England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
printed by R.P. for Joseph Brunning i.e, 1686
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2. Believers shall at the Day of Judgement be publicly absolved and acquitted from the guilt of all their sins. A sentence of Absolution will be passed upon them. They will be pronounced blessed; and there are none blessed but they whose sins are forgiven. Mat. 25.34. Hence the Scripture speaketh of Sins being forgiven in the world to come, h. c. at the Day of Judgement. Mat. 12.32. It is Controverted amongst Divines, whether the secret sins of Believers will be at all spoken of at the day of Judgement: Some think they shall not, because that would tend to their Reproach and shame. But there is much to be said for the Affirmative, that they shall some of them be spoken of: For some of the Elect of God did commit their sins with such as are Reprobate; now if the sins of these Reprobate must be spoken of, then must the Sins of the Elect, who had Fellowship with them in their wickedness; but then they shall ⟨p. 78⟩not be condemned, nor any reproach cast upon them for what they have done. In point of condemnation they shall be as if they had never sinned. There is no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus. Rom. 8.1. There was Condemnation to them before they were in Christ, but since that, there neither is nor ever shall be any Condemnation to them. They are without fault before the Throne▪ b• fore the judgement seat of God. Rev. 14.5. The Lord will in the day of judgment, […] that their sins are blotted […] ▪ T•ey c•n't remain upon record in God's book against them Act. 3.19. The Lord Jesus will then say to the true Believer, Tho' thou wast guilty of many and great sins, yet because I dyed for thee, and thou didst believe on me, thy sins are all forgiven, and therefore do thou rejoice for ever.