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Answer 1.
First. Every believing soul that comes to Jesus Christ hath drunk such a draught of this same wa∣ter of life, that he is freed for ever from condem∣nation, He shall never dy, or perish, or be con∣demned for sin, no, he is freed from all condem∣nation, the poorest, the weakest, the meanest hath drunk a full supply, that it shall never perish by its sins, it is passed from death to life, there is no condemnation, none unto them (now) that they are in Christ Jesus, no condemnation to the poorest and meanest believer, and now all their sins are forgiven, there is a full forgiveness, those sins shall never be laid to their charge; And as the Holy Ghost saith, I will be merciful unto their unrighteousness, their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more, And the blood of Jesus Christ is able to cleanse us from all our sins. It's true in∣deed, a believer that hath drunk of this same wa∣ter of life, and that is freed from all his sins, he may be possibly be exercised with fears, and possi∣bly his Assurance, and his Apprehension of his Justification to himself may have some cloud up∣on it, he may be excercised with clouds, may fear his going down into the pit, though there is no real ground of it, for indeed he is freed from all the guilt of these, for he is now passed from death to life, John 11.26. He that believeth in me shall never dy, that is, his very temporal death shall be but as a sleep to him, the sting is taken out, and he shall never die eternally, And so therefore to clear this Objection, there is never a believing