' SEtt. I 9 -' Triumph of Faith ·'--07 .Believer's Sin, acco.rdmg to irs Phyficai aM. real ' indwelling : 'Tis true, it is Chrift's Stn by Law- .imP.utation, and legal Ob~igation to f~tis!:aCl:ory Puni fhment, and only la19- upon, Chnft In tbat Notion: Yet 'tis fo the Believer's Sin, as he is to ' mourn for this very Thing, that Chrifi was , pierced, and crucified, to remove the Guilt,, alild ' · the Obligation to fatisfaB:ory Punifh111ent. Zech. xii. 'ro. And they j!Jall look upon me whom they have pierr:ed, and they foatl 'mourn for l?inz, as one mourneth for his only Son. Yea, 'tis fo rhe Believer's Sin, even when he believeth that his original Corruption is pardoned, yet it dwelleth in him, having the compleat Efience and Being ,of Sjn ; fo as if he fhould fay, he had no fin, and nothing in him contrary to the holy Law of God;, he jhoutd deceive him(elf, and the Truth fooutcl no: be in him, I Job. i. B. Yea, let him be a Paut, not under the Law, but being dead to the, Latzv, Rom. vit. 6. as touching all aCtual Obli:... gation to eternal Death : Yet in Reg~rd of the real Effence of fin, and proper Contrariety that ' fin hath to God's righteous Law, he ·crieth 0t1t• ver. 14. For .<zve know that the Law is jpirituat, ·7Jut, I am carnal, and [ota u11der .fin, ver 1 7. Now it is no more J, (fantlified and pardoned I. who am in Chrift, Rom. viii. 1. dead to the Law, Rom. vii. 6. freed from Condemmtion) that do fin, but fin that dwelleth in me. If there were no finful I (to ipeak fo) and no corrupt fetf in Pa.ut, which breaketh out into fin, and this indwelling fin were as really i11 its. Effend; and its being re- , moved, and taken cloie out of Paul, as A1omy taken really out of a Place, iJ no more left in that Place, than if it had never been there: Sure.
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