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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

him to Heaven and Glory upon the Righteousness of Christ And a Sentence of Condemnation adjudging him to Death and Hell for his own Sins But so should a Believer be could any Legal Guilt Redound upon his Person from his Sins The Reason of the Major in the 8th Argument having its full force here also An Elect Persons Sins to come are in a better posture and state of Pardon to him in his own Person upon his Believing than they were in the Person of Christ only before his Believing They before his Believing were Fundamentally pardoned Ergo upon his believing pardon'd Actually Actually-Virtually though not Formally Otherwise something might be Legally laid to the Charge of God's Elect contrary to that of the Apostle Rom. 8. 33. Where the Word Elect is to be understood consequenter as they call it of Elect Believing Ones The main strength of all that any otherwise minded may have where-against mainly to oppose themselves lyeth here All Obligation to Punishment is from the Threatning as all to Obedience from the Precept a Threatning whose own power of Penal Legal Obligation is Dissolved can no more give power of Penal Legal Obligation to Sins to come then it can to Sins past So that in Conclusion These cannot be Formally pardoned where those are not pardoned Virtually The Opposite Opinion Unavoidably exposeth Justification to Infinite Intercision For if any the Greatest Sin of a Justified Person bring him under Actual Obligation to Legal Punishment every even the least Sin must do so too And the Answer by Distinguishing the Act and State of Justification that the Act of Justification is Subject to much but the State to no Intercision will be found altogether incompetent if we consider 1. That the Act of Justification if we 'l speak properly being God's and the State ours The Act cannot be rescinded where the State of Justification remains intire Because God alway exactly judgeth of things accordingly as they are in themselves 2. That the State of Justification cannot remain intire where the Act is rescinded Because things are alwayes exactly in themselves accordingly as God judgeth of them Insomuch that whereas the Truth of things is the Measure and Rule of our Judgment Gods Judgment is the Rule and Measure of the Truth of things 3. That God's Act of Justification as well Conserveth as Createth our State of Justification And therefore so strict and necessary is the Dependance of our Justified State upon his Justifying Act that the One cannot be more or less either Intire or Rescinded then the Other 4. That this Answer provides not any Salvo against the Mischief of such Intercision as well if not as much by our less as greater Sins Less Sins indeed do not waste the Conscience destroy its Peace and Dead the Sense of Justification wherein the main of that Peace lyeth as Greater Sins do But if the Greatest Sins of a Believer Rescind his Justification as they cannot but do if they bring him under Legal Guilt or Obligation to Legal Punishment his Least Sins must do it no less than they Which either as to State or but Act of Justification one would think no man should be forward to assert Plainly destroyeth much of the Essential Difference not only between Chastisement and Punishment properly so called But even between the two Estates in and out of Christ and the two very Covenants themselves of Works and of Grace Preserve but these two States under these two Covenants both in their due Distinctions and the following Notion must in its full Strength and Evidence irresistibly prevail to the Final Decision of this Controversie Such as is the Law a Person is under such is his Transgression of the Precept of that Law such the Guilt according to the Threatning of that Law redounding upon the Person from that Transgression Such the Punishment that Guilt bindeth over to And such the Pardon of that both Guilt and Punishment If the Law or Covenant of Works the Transgression Guilt Punishment Pardon all Legal If the Law of Faith or Covenant of Grace The Law made up into Gospel in the Hand of a Mediator for the Law of Nature or Moral Law is one and the same under both these distinct Covenants The Transgression Guilt Punishment Pardon all accordingly Evangelical Two only considerable Objections I apprehend may be made against this Doctrine This Doctrine throws open a wide gap to all Loosness and Licentiousness of Life as throwing down the greatest Mound and Bar against Sin Fear of contracting Legal Guilt or Obligation to Legal Punishment Ans. 1 This seems to be an Objection of meer Carnal Men who according to the meer carnal corrupt complexion and agreeable Inclination of their own Hearts thinking with themselves what perverse use they should make of such Pardoning Grace were they the Subjects of it make an Estimate of others who are indeed so by themselves judging they also cannot but do the like But Ans. 2 To whose Persons the Legal Guilt of Sin is thus Pardon'd in their Natures the Reigning Power of Sin is so Dethron'd and broken down as thenceforward they can only be Guilty of Sins of Child-like Infirmity as to which God stands in Christ engaged upon their Gospel-Repentance to walk with them in a Covenant of Fatherly Pardoning Grace and Mercy Insomuch that whereas Rom. 6. 12. the Percept makes it their Duty that Sin should not reign in their mortal bodies the Promise ver 14. makes it their Priviledge that sin should not have Dominion over them because not under the Law but under Grace And in ver 15. the Apostle urging this very Objection puts it off as he doth else-where also with the greatest abhorrence of a God forbid Ans. 3 Those who pass under this Relative change of the State and Condition of their Persons from a State of Sin to a State Grace perfectly Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus i. e. by the Satisfaction and Merit of Christ imputed to them pass also at the same time under an Absolute Change of the meerly carnal sinful Complexion and Disposition of their Natures to some Degree of a Spritual Frame and Temper Sanctified by the Spirit of their God 1 Cor. 6. 11. put into them in Habitual Sanctification and as to Actual Sanctification by his Actual Influences Rom. 8. 14. Acting and Leading them as Children of God in all the good wayes of God their Father So that from the Later of those Changes they have their Principle and Power and from the Former their Argument and Engagement not to walk after the Flesh but after the Spirit Rom. 8. 1. Their Dis-obligation to Legal Punishment their Obligation to Gospel-Obedience and that a powerful Constraining Obligation also 2 Cor. 5. 14 15. Ans. 4 Among and above other Habits and Principles of Grace Gospel-Faith Child-like Love and Fear have an especial Influence upon and Sway in the Souls of such changed ones to this Purpose 1. Faith that instates in such