The souls exaltation A treatiseThe soules exaltation A treatise

Answer. I answer, sin so far as it concerns our purpose, is taken two ways.

Answer. I answer, sinne so farre as it concernes our purpose, is taken two wayes.

First, the breach of the Law, as any guilt when a man is subject to the Law.

Secondly, it is sometimes taken for the sacrifice of sin; for so the punishment in Scripture is sometimes called by the name of sin, as Leviticus 5.15. If a man sin and trespass through ignorance, he shall then bring unto the Lord for a trespass offering, a ram without blemish: If any man offer a gift for the sin which he hath committed, for so the word is in the original; if he offer a sacrifice, because of the guilt of sin which is upon him: and so Gen. 4.7. If thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; that is, punishment lieth at the door: now in what sense it is taken here in this place, it is a point of great difficulty amongst many Divines some that have had a new way for justification, they have had also a new way for to interpret this place: but in my ⟨p. 164⟩judgement it is to be taken in the first sense, though the second also must be included, and cannot but be collected from the former, and not only the former, but also latter Divines carry it this way: the argument here in the Text seems to be clear, and the reasons out of the Text are three: