Pre-emptive pardons vs. pardoning sins

I for one had never thought about pre-emptive pardons as a constitutional power granted to a President of the United States. I always thought a pardon was issued for someone who has been convicted in a court of law.  

I guess for a revisionist President, the plain meaning of the Constitution is something to be ignored if it stands in the way of your agenda. Much like he must hold a revisionist view of the Bible where it comes to marriage and abortion, he feels free to make it up as he goes.

Fortunately, he is gone.

Still it makes me wonder how God, the only one who can pardon us, feels about pre-emptive pardons. 

Mark 2:3-12 comes to mind,

And they came, bringing to him a paralytic carried by four men.  And when they could not get near him because of the crowd, they removed the roof above him, and when they had made an opening, they let down the bed on which the paralytic lay. And when Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Son, your sins are forgiven.” 

Now some of the scribes were sitting there, questioning in their hearts,  “Why does this man speak like that? He is blaspheming! Who can forgive sins but God alone?”  And immediately Jesus, perceiving in his spirit that they thus questioned within themselves, said to them, “Why do you question these things in your hearts?  Which is easier, to say to the paralytic, ‘Your sins are forgiven,’ or to say, ‘Rise, take up your bed and walk’?  But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins”—he said to the paralytic—  “I say to you, rise, pick up your bed, and go home.”  And he rose and immediately picked up his bed and went out before them all, so that they were all amazed and glorified God, saying, “We never saw anything like this!”

The man's past sins were forgiven, but what about the next sin he incurs?

As Anglicans, we beg for forgiveness every time we confess, and we confess a lot.

A pre-emptive pardon would seem to something that is given to those who have not confessed to any wrongdoing, but who probably could be convicted of such. 

Jesus' ministry began with a call to repentance, so I don't think God gives us a pre-emptive pardon in the same sense as these recent Presidential pardons even though He knows that we are going to sin again, and again. 

I'll have to think this one out a while longer.