DEPTIhS OF SIN. 25 ing for them such stable peace and consolation, that they should not need the renewing of sacrifices every day. This is the great mystery of the Gospel, in the blood of Christ, that those who sin every day should have peace with God all their days, if their sins fall within the compass of those infirmities against which this consolation is provided. 3. There is provision made of grace to preserve the soul from great and enormous sins, such as in their own nature are apt to wound conscience, and cast the per- son into depths in which he shall have neither rest nor peace. There is in this covenant, grace for grace, John, 1 : 16 ; and abundance of grace, administered from the fulness of Christ : grace reigneth in it, Rom.-6 : 6, de- stroying and crucifying the body of sin. But this provision in the covenant of grace against peace-ruining, soul - perplexing sins, is not, as to the ad- ministration of it, absolute. There are covenant com- mands and exhortations, on the attendance upon which the administration of much covenant-grace depends. To watch, pray, improve faith, to stand on our guard continually, to mortify sin, to fight against temptations with steadfastness, diligence, constancy, are every where prescribed; and that in order to the insurance of the grace mentioned. So Peter informs us, the divine power of God "bath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness." 2d Epistle, 1: 3. We have from it an habitual supply and provision for obedience at all times: also, saith he, verse 4, "He bath given unto us great and precious promises, that by them we might be partakers of the divine nature." , What then, in this blessed estate and condition, is re- quired of us, but that we may make a due improvement of the provision made for us, and enjoy.the comforting influence of those promises that he holds out to us; ver. 5, 6, 7. "Giving all diligence, add to your faith, Forgiveness, 2
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