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OF
THE
MORAL
LAW,
AND
THE EVIL
OT
SIN.
[SEEM.
Y.
as
of
the
just
resentment
of
God
his
Father against
every
sin.
The great and
glorious Gód, the
Governor
of
the
world,
thought
it
more necessary
and becoming
his
ma-
jesty that
the
Son
of
his
love should
be
put
to
a
painful
and
shameful
death
to make a
propitiation
for
our
sins
against
this
law,
than
that
any one
transgression
should
be
pardoned
without an
atonement. These
awful
sen-
timents
should
be
an
everlasting caution to
us
against
entertaining
slight
thoughts
of
the_
evil
of
sin.
It
is
no
trifling
matter
to
indulge the lèast
sin,
when
it
awakens
the
resentment and
wrath
of
the
eternal
God. Fools are
they
indeed
that
"
make
a
mock
of
sin
:"
Prov.
xiv.
9
when the Scn
of God
must
die,
before
it
could
be
par-
doned.
Reflection
IV.
"
How glorious
is
the
wisdom
and the
mercy
of
the
gospel, which does
honour
to the
law
in
every respect, which
prepares
an
honourable atonement
and
pardon for
guilty rebels who
have
broken
this
ever-
lasting
law,
and
provides grace
and
power to renew
our
nature
according
to
the demands
of it."
It
not
only
par
-
dons
returning
transgressors,
but
it promises
to write
this
law
in
the hearts of
men,
that it
may be
better
observed
and
obeyed.
A double
and complete
salvation.
Read
the
lari
uage.of
the gospel and rejoice in
it;
Heb.
viii.
10.
"
This
is
the 'covenant, saith
the
Lord,
that
I
will
make
with men
I
will
put
my laws
into
their
hearts,
and
in
their
minds
will
I
write them,
and
their
sins
and
their
iniquities
will
I
remember
no
more." And
it
is
re-
peated
Heb.
x.
16, 17.
The
law
of
God requires
uni-
versal and everlasting obedience, and
it
is
an unspeak-
able
blessing to have this
obedience made
natural
and
easy by sanctifying grace.
Reflection V.
Happy
is
the world
above, where such
natural
and such
easy
obedience
is
for
ever paid
to this
law
of
God without
the
least transgression."
The
moral
law
carries
all its
demands up
to
that
blessed country,
and
whatsoever
other
laws
are
in force there,
it
is
this
eternal
law
that
gives
authority
to them
all, and every
inhabitant answers
all
the
demands
of
it
by
a
free and
,chearful obedience.
Happy
world indeed, where
so
pure and
so
perfect a
law
of
the
Creator cannot
charge
one creature
with
transgression and guilt!
A world
with
-
out
sorrow
and without
sin
!
Astrange
unknown blessed'