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3. Then also a man comes to see Christ crucified, and not till then; there is nothing can give us such a sight of the sinfulness of sin as Christ crucified: By the Law is the knowledge of sin, Rom. 3. 20. but by the sight of Christ crucified, I see the hatred that God hath against sin: I do not see by the Law so much the hatred that God hath against sin as in Christ crucified; the more I see Gods hatred against sin, the more I see the sinfulness of it. Now look when a man doth convert and turn unto God, then he sees Christ crucified.

3. Then also a man comes to see Christ crucified, and not till then; there is nothing can give us such a sight of the sinfulness of sin as Christ crucified: By the Law is the knowledg of sin, Rom. 3. 20. but by the sight of Christ crucified, I see the hatred that God hath against sin: I do not see by the Law so much the hatred that God hath against sin as in Christ crucified; the more I see Gods hatred against sin, the more I see the sinfulness of it. Now look when a man doth convert and turn unto God, then he sees Christ crucified.

4. Look when a man hath gotten the true prospect of Hell, and of the wrath of God, then sin appears sinful to him: Now look when a man convert and turn unto God in truth, then he sees the wrath of God, and hath the true prospect of Hell, from which he is delivered.

5. The more a man is tired out, and wearied with the dogging and haunting of his sin, that he can rest no where for it, the more the sinfulness of sin appears to him: Now when a man doth convert, and turn unto God, what says he? Ah; I am never at rest, I am dogged and haunted, and tired out continually with my sin; O now it appears very sinful to me.