-- Tit. 2. Directions for obtaining pardon from God
to the Mediator, who is thereby received. 6. The Holy Ghost worketh us to these conditions.
Tit. 2. Directions for Obtaining Pardon from God Direct. I. 'Understand well the office of Jesus Christ as our
Redeemer, and what it is that he hath done for sinners, and what he undertaketh further to do.' For if you know not Christ's office and undertaking, you will either be ignorant of your true remedy, or will deceive yourselves by a presumptuous trust, that he will do that which is contrary to his office and will.
Direct. II. 'Understand well the tenor of the covenant of grace;' for there it is that you must know, what Christ will give, and to whom, and on what terms.
Direct. III. 'Understand well the nature of true faith and repentance:' or else you can neither tell how to obtain pardon, nor to judge of it.
Direct. IV. 'Absolutely give up yourselves to Christ, in all the offices of a Mediator, Priest, Prophet and King.' And think not to be justified by one act or part of Christianity, by alone believing in Christ as a sacrifice for sin. To be a true believer, and to be a true Christian is all one: and is the faith in Christ which is the condition of justification and salvation. Study the baptismal covenant; for the believing in God the Father, Son and Holy Ghost there meant, is the true faith, which is the condition of our pardon.
Direct. V. 'Be, sure that your repentance contain in it a desire to be perfectly holy and free from all sin, and a resolution against all known and wilful sinning, and particularly that you would not commit the same sins, if you had again the same temptations,'
(supposing that we speak not of such infirmities as good men live in; which yet you must heartily desire to forsake).
Direct. VI. 'Pray earnestly and believingly for pardon through Christ:' even for the continuance of your former pardon, and for renewed