4 ,c-boice Bed of Spices. it yet it is oppofite to all cold. So true Grace, it is oppo- lite to all fid, it cannot comply with any known fin. Look as fin and Grace were never born together, and as fin and Grace (hall never dye together/ fo fin and Grace can < never be reconciled together. There is a natural contrariety be- tween fin and Grace, and therefore you can never reconcile them in the heart. The oppofition that Grace makes against fin, is inward as well as outward, 'tis againft fin wherefoever it is. . Nothing will fatisfy a gracious foul but the dearhoti- on of fin, Rom. 6. 6. Knowing this, that our old man is Crucified with him, that the body of fin might be defiroyed, that henceforth we fhould not ferve'in. The Greek word KoEfocoryhaii, that is here rendred deflroyed, fignifies weakned, and the ftrength of it broken, and made idle, fruitlefs, and nneff6lual. So Ppd. 5i. 2. wafh me ihroughly (or multiply to wafh me, or play the Fuller upon me) from mine iniquity. (David looked upon his fin, his Rain, to be fo inveterate, fo ingrained, that it would hardly be ever gotten out till the cloth were almoil rub'd to pieces) and cleanfe me from my fin. David was as defirous to be cleanfed of the Leprofy of fin,as ever any poor Leper was willing to be cleanfed of his Leprofy under the Law ; And fo ver. 7. Purge me with Hilfop and I (hall be clean) waah me, and I jhall le whiter than Snow. All/he Sacrifices of expiation of fin in the old Law, were done by blood, and that blood was fprinkled upon the people by a bunch of Hyffop, fo called from the Hebrew word Ezoi), by reafon of the nearnefs of the found. In the -legal fprinklings made with Hyffp, was thado wed out the warning away of fin through the blood of Chrill. The Brides garments are made j Rev. T. 4. 3 white in the blood of the lamb, andnot byany wafhings in Job 9. 0, Snow water : Wheri, a gracious Soul Looks upon fin, he cries `out, Lord raze it, raze it down to the ground, Lord let not .one flone be left upon another: In every gracious Soul, 'there is fuch a deteflation and f an indignation againft fin, that neither Mountains of Gold, nor Rocks of Pearl, nor hohour,nor applaufe,nor favour on the one hand,nor frowns n'br.threats, nor neglects; nor fcorns, nor contempt' on the :other hand, can win the Soul over to fin, or make the Sotil P z one 1Q7 espaMegaltsmoftwore"
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