In justification all the believer’s sins are pardoned. The pardon of sin is a being absolved from guilt by the sentence of God, through the imputed righteousness of his Son; and although there is the power of sin as well as its guilt, yet, properly speaking, this is removed in regeneration,—the defilement of sin is removed in the progress of sanctification, and the indwelling power of sin is removed in glorification. In justification God pardons all our sins. Past sins are forgiven, and future sins will not be imputed; so that the pardoned sinner cannot come into condemnation; for if he is once pardoned, then is he in Christ Jesus, and “to them that are in Christ Jesus there is no condemnation.”

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