The truly blessed man

How a true Convert who is a Justified, & consequently a pardoned person, comes to be distressed with Guilt, which is removed by Forgiveness? And this is a Cas• worthy our looking into. For the right stating and explaining whereof I may offer these Conclusions.

How a true Convert who is a Justified, & consequently a pardoned person, comes to be distrest with Guilt, which is removed by Forgiveness? And this is a Cas• worthy our looking into. For the right stating and explaining whereof I may offer these Conclusions.

1. It is certain, that in the forgiveness of Sin, the whole Guilt of it is removed. A Pardon hath a proper respect unto Guilt: it makes not the […] not to have been, no• takes away the merit of it ⟨p. 145⟩but it removes the obligation of it that bound the Sinner to Die; a pardon doth not take away a part, and leave a part, but it dischargeth all; it doth not remit the fault, and retain the punishment; nor doth it abate the Eternal Punishment, and reserve the Temporal; but it altogether clears the man from the Law sentence against him; for this reason it is said to be blotted out, &c. God indeed forgives as a Judge, and corrects as a Father, but this respects not the Law, but the Gospel, and the Correction is to heal the person; it is not an act of Revenging Justice, but Parental Discipline, Jer. 10.24.

1. It is certain, that in the forgiveness of Sin, the whole Guilt of it is removed. A Pardon hath a proper respect unto Guilt: it makes not the 〈…〉 not to have been, no• takes away the merit of it ⟨p. 145⟩