P R I E ST. 3t7 liever, which was given to poor Peter, finking in the Sea ; * O thou of little Faith, wherefore doll thou doubt ? Jefus offered his Blood, as a willing Sacrifice, to purge away the contaminating Sores and Leprofy of Sin, and to fatisfy the righteous Requirenìents of the broken Law. He performed all fo amply, and in fuch wife, that they fhall never appear against his Redeemed. Nay, fo far from appearing againft them, the holy Law is become a Charter of Promifes in the Saviour. Fie fulfilled its Demands ; and the Wages, he has earned, are paid to his depending People. Though they may look back with Shame " on their many fruitlefs Friend- Ihips, ill-judged Enmities, rafh Prefumptions, cowardly Defpairs, unmanly Flatteries, bold Indecencies, idle Schemes, airy Hopes, groundlefs Fears, Opportunities loft, Admonitions flighted, Efcapes unacknowledged, Evils unimproved, Bleflings negleEted, Trifles admired, with a whole Swarm of Infirmities;" yet, being in Chrift, all the Guilt of thefe Enormities is done away. Chrift anfwers to the Law for the whole. The Law writes nothing against Chrift ; becaufe, by his Obedience unto Death, he magnified and made it honourable ; and the Law can write no Charge of Guilt against the Believer, becaufe he-is in Chrill. He is a Sinner indeed againft it in hirnfelf, and it grieves his very Soul that he is fo : It caufes him to groan in his earthly Tabernacle, being burdened; but his Trangreflions than not be imputed. Chrift bare the Punifhment due to their Sins, and they can never juftly bear it again. Law and Juftice, being once fátisfied in the Mediator, have nothing but Bletlings for his People. They cannot exact the Penalty twice. The Redeemed of the Lord cannot tale of that eternal Death, which he tatted for every one of them. They may and do fuffer many Affliftions in this Life, and are, in the World's Eftimation, of all Men the molt miferable; but even thefe Affliftions are Blefïings, and made necefFary and efeEtuál for their fpiritual Matt. xiv. 31e Health
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