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And having now a pardon free,
To hell obnoxious cannot be,
Nor to a threat, except * anent
Paternal wrath and chastisement c.
My foul may oft be fill'd indeed
With flavish fear and hellish dread d:
This from my unbelief does spring e,
My faith speaks out fome better thing.
Faith fees no legal guilt again,
Though fin and its defert remain ƒ:

the law, being made a curfe for us: for it is written, Curfed is every one that hangeth on a tree. Rom. v. 9. Much more

then being now juftified by his blood, we fhall be faved from wrath through him. Eph. i, 7. In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgivenefs of fins, according to the riches of his grace.

ct 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. Ifa. liv. 9, 10. For this is as the waters of Noah unto me: for as I have fworn that the waters of Noah fhould no more go over the earth; fo have 1 fworn that I would not be wroth with thee nor rebuke thee. For the mountains fhall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness fhall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, faith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. Pfal. lxxxix. 30,-33. If his children forfake my law, and walk not in my judgments: if they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments: then will I vifit their tranfgref fion with the rod, and their iniquity with ftripes. Nevertheless my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him, nor suffer my faithfulness to fail.

d Matth. xiv. 26. And when the disciples faw Jefus walking on the fea, they were troubled, faying, It is a spirit; and they cried out for fear.

e Mark iv. 40. And Jefus faid unto his difciples, Why are ye fo fearful? how is it that you have no faith?

f Rom. vii. 6. But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of fpirit, and not in the oldnefs of the letter. Chap.

Some hidden wonders hence refult :
I'm full of fin, yet free of guilt g:

Guilt is the legal bond or knot,

That binds to wrath and vengeance hot h;
But fin may be where guilt's away,
And guilt where fin could never stay.
Guilt without any fin has been,
As in my furety may be feen;
The elect's guilt upon him came,
Yet ftill he was the holy Lamb i.
Sin without guilt may likewise be,
As may appear in pardon'd me :
For though my fin, alas! does stay,
Yet pardon takes the guilt away
k.

viii. 3, 4. For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God fending his own Son in the likeness of finful flesh, and for fin condemned fin in the flesh: that the the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk. not after the filesh, but after the Spirit.

g Rom. iv. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual: but I am carnal, fold under fin. Chap. viii. 33, 34. Who shall 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.

b Duet. xxvii. 26. Cursed be he that confirmeth not all the words of this law to do them: and all the people fhall fay, ARom. i. 18. For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlinefs, and unrighteoufnefs of men, who hold the truth in unrighteoufnefs.

men.

¡ Ifa. liii. 6. The Lord hath,Jaid on him the iniquity of us all. Heb. vii. 26. For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, feparate from finners.

k Rom. vii. 24. O wretched man that I am! who fhall deliver me from the body of this death? Acts xiii. 38, 39. Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of fins; and by

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Thus free 1 am, yet ftill involv'd;
A guilty finner, yet abfolv'd /:
Though pardon leave no guilt behind,
Yet fin's defert remains I find m.

Guilt and demerit differ here,

Though oft their names confounded are,
I'm guilty in myself always,

Since fin's demerit ever ftays n.

Yet in my head I'm always free
From proper guilt affecting me;
Because my Surety's blood cancell❜d
The bond of curfes once me held o.

him all that believe are juftified from all things from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

/ 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 stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God. v. 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 Chrift.

m Rom. iv. 6, 7, 8. Even as David also describeth the bleffedness 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. Pfal. 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 justified when thou fpeakest, and be clear when thou judgeft. And cxliii. 2. O Lord, enter not into judgment with thy fervant: for in thy fight fhall no man living be justified.

» 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 be fe of these things, cometh the wrath of God upon the chilof disobedience.

The guilt that pardon did divorce,
From legal threat'nings drew its force p.
But fin's defert that lodges ftill,

Is drawn from fin's intrinfic ill q.

Were guilt nought elfe but fin's desert,
Of pardon I'd renounce my part;
For were I now in heav'n to dwell,
I'd own my fins deferved hell r.

• Rom. v. i. 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. II. And not only fo, but we alfo joy in God, through our Lord Jefus Chrift, 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. Chrift 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.

9 Pfal. li. 4. See letter m forecited. Luke xv. 13. I will arife, and go to my father, and will fay unto him, Father, I have finned againft 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 walt flain, and haft redeemed us to God by thy blood, out of every kindred, and tongue, and people and nation. v. 61, 12, 13. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne, and the beasts, 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 wifdom, 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, Bleffing, and honour, and glory, and power

This does my higheft wonder move
At matchlefs justifying love,

That thus fecures from endless death
A wretch deferving double wrath f
Though well my black defert I know,
Yet I'm not liable to wo;

While full and complete righteoufnels
Imputed for my freedom is s.

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 shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jefus Christ our Lord. Chap. viii. t. 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, becaufe I did it ignorantly, in unbelief. v. 15, 16, 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 Jefus Chrift might fhew forth all long fuffering, for 2 pattern to them which fhould hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invible, the only wife God, be honour and glory, for ever and ever. Amen.

SI Cor. i. 30. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us-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 righteoufnefs of God in him. Rom. iv. 11. And he [Abraham] received the fign of cir cumcifion, 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 righteousness. 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 raifed up Jefus our Lord from the dead, who was delivered for our offences, and was raifed again for our juftification..

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