Guilt and demerit differ here, Though oft their names confounded are, Since fin's demerit ever flays. n Yet in my Head I'm always free The guilt that pardon'd did divorce, Is drawn from fin's intrinfic ill. q unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgivenefs of fins and by him all that believe are justified from all things from which ye could not be juftified by the law of Mofes. / Rom iii. 19, Now we know that what things foever the law faith, it faith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be flopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. . 23, 24, For all have finned, and come fhort of the glory of God; being juftified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jefus Christ. m Rom. iv. 6, 7, 8, Even as David alfo defcribcth the bleffednefs of the man unto whom God imputeth righteousness without works, faying, Bleffed are they whofe iniquities are forgiven, and whofe fins are covered. Bleffed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute fin. Pfalm li. 3, 4, For I acknowledge my tranfgreffions; and my fin is ever before me. Against thee, thee only have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight: that thou mightest be juftified when thou fpcakeft, and be clear when thou judgest. And exliii. 2, O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy fervant; for in thy fight can no man living be justified. n Rom. vii. 13, 14, Was then that which is good, made death unto me? God forbid. But fin, that it might appear fin, working death in me by that which is good; that fin by the commandment might become exceeding finful. For we know that the law is fpiritual; but I am carnal, fold under fin. Eph. v. 6, Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. o Rom. v. 1, Therefore being juftified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. v. 9, Much more then being now juftified by his blood, we fhall be faved from wrath through him. v. 11, And not only fo, but we also joy in God, Were guilt nought else but fin's defert, This does my highest wonder move That thus fecures for endless death Though well my black defert I know, through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement. p Gal. iii. 10, For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curfe; for it is written, Curfed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them. v. 13, Christ hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curfe for us; for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Pfalm li. 4, See letter m forecited. Luke xv. 18, I will arife and go to my father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned against heaven and before thee. r Luke xv. 19,-And am no more worthy to be called thy fon. Rev. v. 4, And I [John] wept much, because no man was found worthy to open, and to read the book, neither to look thereon. v. 9, And they fung a new fong, faying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the feals thereof; for thou waft flain, and haft redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation. v. 11, 12, 13, And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round the throne, and the beasts, and the elders; the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thousands; saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was flain, to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and bleffing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the earth, and under the earth, and fuch as are in the fea, and all that are in them, heard I, faying, Bleing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. Rom. vii. 24, 25, O wretched man that I am! who fhall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Chap. viii. 1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. 1 Tim. i. 13, Who was before a blafphemer, and a perfecutor, and injurious. But I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief. 2. 15, 16, 17, This is While full and complete righteousness a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am the chief, Howbeit, for this caufe I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Chrift might fhew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which fhould hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wife God, be honour, and glory, for ever and ever. Amen. SI Cor. i. 30, But of him are ye in Christ Jefus, who of God is made unto us-righteoufnefs-and redemption. 2 Cor. v. 21, God hath made Christ to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteoufnefs of God in him. Rom. iv. II, And he [Abraham] received the fign of circumcifion, a feal of the righteoufnefs of the faith, which he had yet being uncircumcifed: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcifed; that righteoufnefs might be imputed unto them alfo. v. 22-25, And therefore it was imputed to him for righteoufnefs. Now it was not written for his fake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us alfo, to whom it fhall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our juftification. Rom. v. 9, Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we fhall be faved from wrath through him. u Rom. v. 17, 18, 19,-They which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteoufnefs, fhall reign in life by one, Jefus Christ. By the righteousness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto juftification of life.-By the obedience of one fhall many be made righteous. v. 21, Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jefus Chrift our Lord. Pfalm ciii. 3, Blefs the Lord, O my foul,-who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy difeafes. 2 Cor. v. 19, God was in Chrift, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trefpaffes unto them. v. 21, See letters above cited. Dan. ix. 24, Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finish the tranfgreffion, and to make an end of I'm always in a pardon'd ftate Sin brings a vengeance on my head, fins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlafting righteousness. Ifa. liv. 10, For the mountains fhall depart, and the hills be removed, but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, faith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. Heb. viii. 12, For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their fins and their iniquities will I remember no more. w Rom. viii. 1, There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. v. 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, Who fhall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that juftifieth: who is he that condemneth? It is Chrift that died, yea, rather, that is rifen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh interceffion for us. Who fhall feparate us from the love of Christ, shall tribulation, or diftrefs, or perfecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or the fword? Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, For I am perfuaded, that nor things prefent, nor things to come, nor heighth, nor depth, nor any other creature, fhall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord. ≈ Pfalm xxv. 11, For thy name's fake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. And li. 8, 9, Make me to hear joy and gladnefs; that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my fins; and blot out all mine iniquities. v. 12, Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit. y Pfalm xcix. 8, Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou waft a God that forgaveft them, though thou tookeft vengeance of their inventions. 1 Theff. i. 10, And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jefus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. z Pfalm xxxv. 3, O Lord, fay unto my foul, I am thy falvation. And lxxxv. 8, I will hear what God the Lord will speak; for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his faints; but let them In point of application free; Lord, wafh anew, and pardon me. SECT. XV. The mystery of Faith and Sight, of which more, Part vi. Chap. vi. STRANGE Contradictions me befal, I can't believe unlefs I fee; a Till once I fhut the feeing eye. b When fight of fweet experience Can give my faith no helping hand, c Will give it ample ground to stand. d not turn again to folly. Matth. ix. 2, And behold they brought to him a man fick of the palfy, lying on a bed: and Jefus feeing their faith, faid unto the fick of the palfy, Son be of good cheer, thy fins be forgiven thee. Matth. vi. 12, And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 1 John i. 7, 8, If we walk in the light, as God is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jefus Chrift his Son cleanfeth us from all fin. If we say, that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. a John vi. 40, And this is the will of him that fent me, that every one which feeth, the Son, and believeth on him, may have ev erlafting life. b John xx. 29, Jefus faith unto him, Thomas, because thou haft feen me, thou haft believed: bleffed are they that have not feen, and yet have believed. Ifa. viii. 17, And I will wait upon the Lord that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him. Chap. 1. 10, Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his fervant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let them trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God. d Eph. i. 15-19, Wherefore I alfo, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jefus, and love unto all the faints, cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers; that the God of our Lord Jefus Chrift, the Father of glory, may give unto you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, in the knowledge of him; the eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the faints, and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us ward who believe, according to the |