Guilt and demerit differ here, Though oft their names confounded are. Since fin's demerit ever itays. I 1 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 difobedience. 2 Rom. v. 1. Therefore, being juftified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift. Verfe 9. Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be faved from wrath through him. Ver. 11. And not only fo, but we alfo joy in God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, by whom we have now received the atonement. 3 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. Verse 13. Chrift hath redeemed us from the curfe of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Curfed is every, one that hangeth on a tree. 4 Pfalm li. 4. See figure 6. p. 218. 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. 4 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. Verfe 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. Ver. 11,-13. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beafts, and the elders and the number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of thoufands; faying 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 sea, and all that are in them, heard I faying, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power be unto him that fitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever: That thus fecures from endless death While full and complete righteousness vii. 1. 1 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. There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Chrift Jefus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. was before a blafphemer, and a perfecutor, and injurious: but I obtained 1 Tim. i. 13. Who mercy, because I did it ignorantly, in unbelief. Ver. 15,17. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit, for this caufe I obtained mercy, that in me first Jefu Chrift might fhew forth all long-fuffering, for a pattern to them which should 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. 21 Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who, of God, is made unto ns-righteoufnefs-and redemption. 2 Cor. v. 21. God hath made Chrift to be fin for us, who knew no fin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him. Rom. iv. 11. And he (viz. Abraham) received the fign of circumcision, a seal 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 circumciled; that righteousness may be imputed unto them also. Ver. 22,-25. And therefore it was imputed to him for righteoufnel. Now it was not written for his fake alone, that it was imputed to him; but for us also, to whom it fhall be imputed, if we believe on him that raifed up Jelus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offences, and was raited again for our juftification. 3 Rom. v. 9. Much more then being now justified by his blood, we shall be faved from wrath through him. 4 Rom. v. 17, 18, 19.-They which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteoufnels, fhall reign in life by one, Jefus Chrift.-By the righte oufness of one, the free gift came upon all men unto juftification of life.-By the obedience of one fhall many be made righteous. Verse 21. Grace reigns through righteoufnefs unto eternal life, by Jefus Christ our Lord. 5 Pfalm ciii. 3. Blefs the Lord, O my fonl-who forgiveth all thine iniqui. ties; who healeth all thy difeafes. 2 Cor. vi. 19. God was in Christ, recon. ciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trefpaffes unto them.— Verle 21. See figure 2. above. Dan. ix. 24. Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and upon thy holy city, to finith the tranfgreffion, and to make an end of fins, and to make reconciliation for iniquity, and to bring in everlafting righteoufnels. Ifa. liv. 10. For the mountains fhall depart, and the hills fhall be removed; but my kindness fhall not depart from thee, nei ther fhall the covenant of my peace be removed, faith the Lord, that hath I'm always in a pardon'd state Lord, wash anew, and pardon me. The Mystery of Faith and Sight. See Part VI. Chap. 4. TRANGE contradictions me befal, STR I can't believe unless I fee; 6 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. 1 Rom. 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. Ver. 33,-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 alfo maketh interceffion for us.Who fhall separate us from the love of Chrift? fhall tribulation, or distress, or perfecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or fword? Nay, in all thefe things we are more than conquerors, through him that loved us. For I am perfuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things prefent, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Chrift Jefus our Lord. 2 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 gladness; that the bones which thou haft broken may rejoice. Hide thy face from my fins; and blot out all mine iniquities. Reftore unto me the joy of thy falvation: and uphold me with thy free Spirit. 3 Pfalm xcix. 8. Thou answeredt them, O Lord our God: thou waft a God that forgavest them, though thou tookeit vengeance of their inventions. 1 Thef. i. 10. And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raifed from the dead, even Jefus which delivered us from the wrath to come. 4 Pfalm xxxv. 2. O Lord, fay unto my foul, am thy falvation. And lxxxv. 8. I will hear what God the Lord will fpeak; for he will fpeak peace unto his people, and to his faints: but let them not turn again to folly. Mat. 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 pally, Son, be of good chear, thy fins be forgiven thee. 5 Mat. vi. 12. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. 1 Joha i 7, 8. If we walk in the light, as God is in the light, we have fellowfhip 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. 6 John vi. 40. And this is the will of him that fent me, that every one which feeth the Son, and believeth on hum, may have everlasting life. Yet never can believe at all, Till once I fhut the feeing eye. I Can give my faith no helping hand, 2 Will give it ample ground to stand. 3 In divine light the object shown; 8 The glorious object as mine own. 9 Trusting its ear, and not its eyes. II 1 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. 2 Ifa. viii. 17. And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the houfe 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 him trust in the name of the Lord, and ftay upon his God. 3 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 working of his mighty power, &c. And 2 Cor. iv. 6. And God who commanded the light to thine out of darkness, hath fhined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jefus Chriít. 4 2 Cor. v. 7. For we walk by faith, not by fight. 5 John ii. 11. This beginning of miracles did Jefus in Cana of Galilee, and manifefted forth his glory; and his difciples believed on him. 6 Pfalm ix. 10. And they that know thy name, will put their trust in thee. 7 Pfalm xxvü. 14. Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he fhall ftrengthen thine heart: wait, I fay, on the Lord. 8 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. John i. 12. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the fons of God, even to them that believe on his name. 10 Gal. i. 16. But when it pleased God-to reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the Heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood. Faith lift'ning to a fweet report, Still comes by hearing, not by fight; I But when it fees in divine light. 2 The oppofite of doubts and fears. 4 While fure by faith, and not by fight. 6 11 Eph. i. 13. In Chrift ye alfo trufted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gofpel of your falvation. 1 Rom. x. 17. So then, faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 2 Pfalm xxxvi. 7. How excellent is thy loving-kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their truft under the fhadow of thy wings. Ver. 9. For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we fee light. 3 Pfalm lxxvii. 3, 4. I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my fpirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am fo troubled that I cannot speak. John xx. 25. But Thomas faid unto the other difciples, Except I fhall fee in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his fide, I will not believe. Luke xxiv. 21. We trufted that it had been he which fhould have redeemed Ifrael. 4 Gal. ii. 20. I am crucified with Chrift: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me Mark v. 36. As foon as Jefus heard the word that was spoken, he faith unto the ruler of the fynagogue, Be not afraid, only believe. Mat. viii. 26. And Jefus faith unto his difciples, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Chap.xiv. 31. And Jefus faith unto Peter, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt. 5 Job xxix. 1, 2, 3. Moreover Job continued his parable, and faid, Oh that I were as in months paft, as in the days when God preserved me: when his candle fhined upon my head, and when, by his light, I walked through darkness. Pfalm cxii. 4. Unto the upright there.arifeth light in darkness. 61 Pet. i. 8. Whom, having not feen, ye love; in whom, though now ye fee him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unfpeakable, and full of glory. Rom. iv. 18,-21. Abraham against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations; according to that which was spoken, So fhall thy feed be. And being not weak in faith, he confidered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. He staggered not at the promise of God, through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God: and being fully perfuaded, that what he promised, he was able alfo to perform. Pfalm lxxxix. 36,-39. His feed fhall endure for ever, and his throne as the fun before me. It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witnefs in heaven. Selah. But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed. Thou haft made void the covenant of thy fervant: thou haft profaned his crown by cafting it to the ground. |