Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulness of sin. The life…Three treatises of the vanity of the creature. The sinfulnesse of sinne. The life…

Fifthly and lastly, I have fallen into many and great sins, and if all sin be of a mortal and venomous operation, how can my Life in Christ consist with such heavy provocations and apostasies? To this in general I answer. If the sight of thy sins make thee look to Christ, If •hou ^acanst believe, all things are possible. It is possible for thy greatest ^bapostasies to vanish like a Cloud, and to be forgotten. Though sin have weakened the Law, that we cannot be saved by that; yet it hath not weakened Faith, or made that unable to save. For ^cthe strength of sin is the Law, it hath its condemning virtue from thence. Now by Faith we are not ^dunder the Law, but under Grace. When once we are incorporate into Christs body, and made partakers of the new Covenant,⁵ though we are still under the Laws conduct, in regard of its obedience (which is made sweet and easy by Grace) yet we are not under the laws malediction. So that though sin in a Believer be a transgression of the Law, and doth certainly ^eincur Gods displeasure; ^fyet it doth not de fect• (though it doe de merito) subject him to wrath and vengeance, because every justified man is a person privileged, though not from the duties, yet from the curses of the Law. If the King should graciously exempt any subject from the Laws penalty, and yet require of him the Laws obedience; if that man offend, he b•ch transgressed the Law, and provoked the displeasure of the Prince, who haply will make him some othe• way to […] it: yet his offence doth not nullify his privilege, nor void the Princes grace, which gave him an immunity from the forfeitures, though not from the observance