Discourses on various important subjects, nearly concerning the great affair of the soul's eternal…

That in justifying Faith, that directly respects Sin, or the Evil to be delivered from by the Mediator, is as follows, A Sense of our own Sinfulness, and the Hatefulness of it, and an hearty Acknowledgement of its Dese•• of the threatened Punishment, looking to the free Mercy of God in a Redeemer, for Deliverance from it and its Punishment.

That in justifying Faith, that directly respects Sin, or the Evil to be delivered from by the Mediator, is as follows, A Sense of our own Sinfulness, and the Hatefulness of it, and an hearty Acknowlegement of its Dese•• of the threaten'd Punishment, looking to the free Mercy of God in a Redeemer, for Deliverance from it and its Punishment.

Concerning this, here described, three Things may be noted, 1. That 'tis the very same with that evangelical Repentance to which Remission of Sins is promised in Scripture. 2. That 'tis all of it of the Essence of justifying Faith, and is the same with that Faith, so far as it is conversant about the Evil to be delivered from by the Mediator. 3 That this is indeed the proper and peculiar Condition of Remission of Sins.

1. All of it is essential to evangelical Repentance, and is indeed the very Thing meant by that Repentance, to which Remission of Sins is promised in the Gospel. As to the former Part of the Description, viz A Sense of our own Sinfulness, and the Hatefulness of it, and an hearty ⟨p. 108⟩Acknowledgement of its Desert of Wrath, none will deny it to be included in Repentance: But this don't comprehend the whole Essence of evangelical Repentance; but what follows does also properly and essentially belong to its Nature, looking to the free Mercy of God in a Redeemer, for Deliverance from it, and the Punishment of it. That Repentance to which Remission is promised not only always has this with it, but it is contained in it, as what is of the proper Nature and Essence of it: And Respect is ever had to this in the Nature of Repentance, whenever Remission is promised to it; and it is especially from Respect to this in the Nature of Repentance, that it has that Promise made to it: If this latter Part be missing, it fails of the Nature of that evangelical Repentance to which Remission of Sins is promised: If Repentance remains in Sorrow for Sin, and don't reach to a looking to the free Mercy of God in Christ for Pardon, 'tis not that which is the Condition of Pardon, neither shall Pardon be obtained by it Evangelical Repentance is an Humiliation for Sin before God; but the Sinner never comes and humbles himself before God, in any other Repentance, but that which includes an hoping in his Mercy for Remission: If his Sorrow be not accompanied with that, there will be no coming to God in it, but a flying further from him. There is some Worship of God in justifying Repentance; but that there is not in any other Repentance, but that which has a Sense of, and Faith in the divine Mercy to forgive Sin.