The truly blessed man

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 he 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, Eph. 2.1. Dead legally, and dead spiritually: but as soon as that comes in, they are now Alive to God; unto which life this pardon doth appertain; and as this privilege is entailed on Conversion, so it is restrained to it, and no impenitent Sinne•s partake in it, they are in a state of Condemnation, Mat 18.3. Job. 3.36.

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 he gives men Faith and Repentance, and then a Pardon; Acts 5.31. It is in Conversion that a quickning ⟨p. 116⟩principle is put into men, and before that they are Dead, Eph. 2.1. Dead legally, and dead spiritually: but as soon as that comes in, they are now Alive to God; unto which life this pardon doth appertain; and as this priviledge is entailed on Conversion, so it is restrained to it, and no impenitent Sinnes partake in it, they are in a state of Condemnation, Mat 18.3. Job. 3.36.