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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42736	A learned and accurate discource concerning the guilt of sin, pardon of that guilt, and prayer for that pardon written many years ago by the Reverend Mr. Thomas Gilbert ; now published from his own manuscript left by him some years before his death with a friend in London.	Gilbert, Thomas, 1613-1694.; L. R.	1695 (1695)	Wing G721; ESTC R23948	13,425	48

Obedience or Threatning to Punishment for Disobedience and therefore must be the proper Subject also of all Law-Disobligation or Dissolution of Law-Obligation whether for one End or another Since then a Person while out of Christ is the unhappy Subject of the most severe and rigorous Obligation as of the Precept of the Law to Obedience for his Justification so of the Threatning of the Law to Condemnation and all Legal Punishment for his Disobedience Accordingly must a Person when in Christ be the happy Subject of the most gracious Dissolution of the severe and rigorous Obligation as of the same Precept of the Law to Obedience not simply but as to Justification so also of the same Threatning of the Law not indeed simply but as to Condemnation or any Legal Punishment for his Disobedience And as from this dissolution of the Legal Obligation of the Threatning is the Actual Formal Pardon or dissolution of the Legal Obligation of such a Persons Sins past for Sin cannot be formally Remitted before it be formally Committed so from hence must and cannot but be also the Actual Virtual Pardon or Dissolution of the Legal Guilt or Obligation of such a Persons Sins to come Yet as the Precept in the hand of Christ still binds to Obedience upon Gospel-Grounds and to Gospel-Ends and Purposes though not for Justification so the Threatning in the hand of Christ still binds though not to Condemnation or any Legal Punishment yet upon Gospel-Grounds and for Gospel-Ends and Purposes to Gospel-Chastisements for Disobedience in Sins to come Which Sins when they come as they derive a new Gospel Guilt though no new Legal Guilt upon the Person so they need a new Gospel-Pardon though no new Legal-Pardon nor indeed are capable of it therefore Secondly Gospel-Pardon of Gospel-Guilt is the dissolution of Gospel-Obligation to Gospel-Chastisement for Gospel-Sin For as there is Legal or Gospel-Obedience according to Legal or Gospel-Precepts so against such Precepts is there Legal or Gospel-Sin The Nature of this Gospel-Pardon will the better appear in the manifold Differences of it from Legal Pardon Such as these that follow 1. Gospel-Pardon is an Act of meer Mercy of God as a Father only upon the Intercession of Christ improving therein his Merit with the Father for dealing with his Members in this regard also as Children Gospel-Guilt needing not for its Gospel-Pardon any Legal Satisfaction Legal-Pardon is a Sentence of Absolution from God as a Judge both from his Justice and Mercy upon both the Merit and Satisfaction of Christ improved upon his Intercession for condemned Prisoners of Law but Elect Prisoners to be so made his Members and his Fathers Children 2. Gospel-Guilt is sometimes wholly pardoned sometimes but in part partly remitted partly retained Such was David's guilt of Adultery and Murder and such its Pardon partly remitted the Lord put away his Sin the Gospel-Guilt of his Sin so that he dyed not in his own Person And partly retained so that he was Chastened for it in the Death of his Adulterous Issue 2 Sam. 12. as well as otherwise by his Son Absolom there also Threatned Legal Guilt is alway either wholly Pardon'd or wholly Unpardon'd either all remitted or not at all That having place here Nil solvitur nisi totum 3. Gospel Guilt may be remitted as contracted successively and often Legal Guilt however contracted is remitted all together at once and but once 4. Gospel Guilt when and so far as Pardon'd is alway Pardon'd formally and in it self first by Gospel-Transgression redounding upon and then by Gospel-Grace removed off from the Person Legal Guilt is Pardon'd partly Formally and in it self as in all Sins foregoing Justification partly Virtually and in the Person as in all Sins following Justification In those their Legal Guilt so removed from as if it never had redounded upon the Person In these their Legal Guilt so removed from the Person as it never can redound upon it The Person being now a priviledg'd Person in Jesus Christ and no more Chargeable with Legal Guilt than Christ himself For as Personal Vnion in Christ everlastingly prevents the resulting of its proper personality out of his Humane Nature so united which out of all other Natures not so united immediately results So Mystical Vnion with Christ everlastingly prevents the redounding of Legal Guilt upon the person so united from his sinful Nature and Actions which from all other such Natures and Actions of persons not so united immediately redounds 5. Faith is the only Instrumental Means or Causal Condition of Legal Pardon Repentance Godly Sorrow for Sin and Amendment of of Life the Consequents of this Pardon as the effect of that Faith Repentance Gospel-Sorrow for Sin and Return to Child-like Obedience as well as Faith the Means of Gospel-Pardon or Dissolution of the Obligation of Gospel-Threatning for Gospel-Sin to Gospel-Punishment i. e. Fatherly Chastisement Or in yet plainer English of avoiding the Chastisements of God which are often very severe upon his Children the main work and Business of Gospel-Chastisement being so done to the Hand of God which is by execution of Gospel-Chastisement upon them to reduce his Children into that Gospel-Aw and Order wherein by the Gospel-Threatnings of them only they would not be kept And which Gospel-Chastisements He hath always in a readiness by Him in that Variety and with that Severity that Legal Punishments would be altogether as improper and useless to his mixt Justice and Mercy as a Father towards the compassing of his Gospel-Designs and Purposes upon his Children as Gospel-Chastisements would be to his simple Justice as a Judge towards the Attainment of his Legal Aimes and Ends upon his Enemies Nor are those Gospel-Chastisements used by Him towards his Children but when there is nor further than there is need 1 Pet. 1. 6. for the effecting of some such good as in an ordinary way of his Providence could not otherwise be brought about Some other Differences might be offer'd but these being the Principal will afford a sufficiently large Prospect into both the Necessity and Nature of these two so different kinds of Pardon III. Touching Prayer for Pardon The Removal of the Fundamental Habitual Guilt of Sin the desert of Punishment is not to be prayed for by any whether in or out of Christ. Desert of Punishment being of the very Nature of Sin it self and not only by the Constitution of God thereabout altogether inseparable from Sin Those in Christ are to pray to God to remove that Sin from them whose Desert of Punishment cannot be removed from it and to spread their Sins before the Lord in the highest sense of the deepest Demerit of all Legal Punishment that so they may put the higher both Accent upon the Free Grace of God and Estimate upon the full Satisfaction of Christ whereby their Persons are so fully freed from all Actual Obligation to any of that Legal Punishment the whole and utmost whereof their Sins so deeply Deserve The Removal of the