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THE
PRACTICAL
USES
[SEAM. XXXVI.
"
Lord,
I
have sinned,
but
thy Son has suffered
:
I
come to the
throne
of
grace
in
his
name.
My
offences
cry for vengeance,
but
the blood
of Jesus
speaks better
things,
and
cries
louder
for peace
and pardon.
Let
the
voice
of that
blood which has made
full
satisfaction
for
the
vilest
sins,
prevail over
all
my
unworthiness
Let
the
Lamb
which
is
in the
midst
of
the
throne
he
honoured
this
day, by
introducing a
guilty
creature
with all
his
complaints and
sorrows into thy awful presence, and
thy
divine favour.
Let
me
obtain grace
in
the
hour of
my
distress and necessity: And,
O
that
I may
find
such
suc-
cess,
and such ease
of
soul, in
drawing
near
to
God
by
the
blood
of
Christ,
that
on all
occasions
I
may
run
to
this
refuge,
and maintain
humble and
constant
commu-
nion
with
God
my
Father,
in this
new
and
living way
of
access.
May
this
earthly and
foolish
spirit of
mine,
ne-
ver
be such a
stranger
as
it
has been
at
the mercy-seat,
since the door
of
approach
is
always
open, since
I
have
so
glorious an introducer."
IV.
We should
use this
atonement
of
Christ, as a
di-
vine guard against temptation
/and
sin
;
1
Pet.
i.
15, 19.
"
As
he which
bath called
you
is
holy, so be ye
holy
in
all manner
of
conversation
;
for
ye
are redeemed
with
the precious
blood
of
Christ,
as
of a
lamb
without
ble-
mish, and
without spot."
Reflection.
"
And
has
this soul
of
mine, which
Was
in
slavery to
sin
and the power
of
Satan
been
redeemed
by the death
of
the
Son
of God
?
And shall
I run
back
to
my old
slavery,
and
give
myself up again to the reign
and tyranny
of
sin
?
Has
this guilty
and polluted
soul
been
washed in
so
precious
a
laver
as
the blood
of
the
Son
of
God
?
And
shall
I
defile
myself again
?
Shall
I
"
return
with
the
dog to
his
vomit, or with the
swine
that
was
washed, to
her
wallowing in the
mire
?"
2
Pet.
ii.
22.
It
was sin
that
cost
my
Redeemer
so
dear,
that
cost
him
agonies and
death
:
And shall
I indulge such an
enemy in
my
heart, and
obey
it
in my
practice
?"
God
forbid
!
How shall
I
that
am
dead
to
sin,
by
my
interest
in a
dying
Saviour,
live
any longer
therein
?"
Rom.
vi.
2.
It
is
a
scandal and reproach
to this blessed
doctrine of
atonement,
if
I
should ever dare
give
a loose to
my ini-
quities, while
I
profess faith
in
the blood
of
Christ.
Grant,
O
Jesus,
that
I
may
never
turn
this adorable
grace of thine into wantonness."