and present be altogether and fully remitted, unlesse sins to come be in some sort remitted also. Only he makes this difference, sins past are remitted by a formal application, sins to come only vir∣tually: sins past are remitted in themselves, sins to come in the subject or person sinning. But this in effect to say, they are not remitted, but that God by his Covenant of Grace, will as sins are committed, give Grace to repent, whereby there may be a forgiveness of them. This is to say rather, No sin shall hereafter actually condemn them, rather then to say, they are forgiven. Doctor Twisse, Vindic. Gratiae, pag. 82. de Eu∣rat. lib. 3. Quid si dicam in Justificatione nostra, &c. What if I say, in Justification, we receive the forgivenesse of our sins, not only that are past, but of future also, that is, we are made more certain of their forgivenesse. For (saith he) that internal act of God, whereby he doth remit sins, cannot be renewed in God. Certissimum esse judico, &c. I judge it most certain (as he go∣eth on) to whom God once doth forgive sins, to the same man he for∣gives all his sins whatsoever they are; of which absolution there is indeed a frequent pronunciation iterated to Penitents often in the Scripture. Thus that learned Authour going upon those two grounds, 1. That Pardon of sinne is an immanent act in God. 2. That application of Pardon to us, is no more then the sense and manifestation of that pardon, which was from all Eternity. But the weakness of these grounds hath been already demon∣strated, and we have other Orthodox Writers speaking more consonantly to Truth, denying that future sins are forgiven, before committed and repented of. When Grtius had obje∣cted, That the Protestants Doctrine, was, Peccata condonari an∣tequam fiant, That sins were forgiven before they were commit∣ted, Rivet in his , pag. 467 replieth, Imo id nos absur∣dissimum credimus, &c. Yea we think such a Doctrine most absurd, and the imputation of it to us, most unjust; For though (saith he) God decreed to pardon our sins from all Eternity, yet the execution of this is not from all Eternity. As God decreed from all Eternity to create the world, yet the world was not from all Eternity. Those that know God hath decreed from Eternity to pardon sinne upon the condition of Repentance. Those that know God hath not decreed the end without the means, will never ascribe to themselves Pardon of 0