II. 1. In this sense, we are to _repent_, after we are justified. And till we do so, we can go no farther. For till we are sensible, of our disease, it admits of no cure. But supposing we do thus repent, then are we called to _believe the gospel_. 2. And this also is to be understood in a peculiar sense, different from that, wherein we believed in order to justification. Believe the _glad tidings of great salvation_, which God hath prepared for all people. Believe that he who is _the brightness of his Father’s glory, the express image of his person, is able to save unto the uttermost all that come unto God through him_. He is able to save you from all the sin that still remains in your heart. He is able to save you from all the sin that cleaves to all your words and actions. He is able to save you from sins of omission, and to supply whatever is wanting in you. It is true, _this is impossible with man; but with God_-Man _all things are possible_. For what can be too hard for him, who hath _all power in heaven and in earth_? Indeed his bare power to do this, is not a sufficient foundation for our faith, that he _will_ do it, that he will thus exert his power, unless he hath promised it. But this he has done: he has promised it over and over, in the strongest terms. He has given us these _exceeding great and precious promises_, both in the Old and the New Testament. So we read in the law, in the most ancient part of the oracles of God, _The Lord thy God will circumcise thy heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God, with all thy heart and with all thy soul_, Deut. xxx. 6. So in the Psalms, _He shall redeem Israel_ (the Israel of God) _from all his sins_, so in the Prophet: _Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness and from all your idols will I cleanse you――And I will put my Spirit within you and ye shall keep my judgments and do them. I will also save you from all your uncleannesses_, Ezek. xxxvi. 25, &c. So likewise in the New Testament. _Blessed be the Lord God of Israel for he hath visited and redeemed his people. And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us――to perform the oath which he swore to our father Abraham, that he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, should serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life_, Luke i. 68, &c.