The Promise of Pardon is not to a Sinner as Penitent, but as a Sinner; neither doth a Sinner, when he applies Pardon rightly, apply it to himself as Penitent, but as a Sinner. Repentance is part of the Promise, and is given with Remission of Sins through Faith in the Blood of Christ; and without Justifying Faith applying to Christ for Pardon first, there can be no Repentance to Life; Pardon through Faith is first in Nature before the Exercise of true Gospel Repentance; Repentance is turning from Sin to God, and this must be by Faith, for none can come to God but by him. Repentance and Faith do become necessary and useful by Vertue of the Promise in the way of Salvation, but by no means in the Nature of Fœderal Conditions, God never constituted them in such a Covenant Order.

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