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I, but what have we to do, but to mourn and cry, and rent our hearts because of this distressed condition we are in.

I, but what have we to doe, but to mourn and cry, and rent our hearts because of this distressed condition we are in.

Fourteenthly, Nay the Law accepts of no repentance; it will not discharge the guilt of any one sin, for all the sorrow in the world. And here lieth a great mistake of people, when they have offended, they think they will be careful to make amends; and they will mourn and repent, &c. It is true, if you be under the covenant of grace, this is something; but if you be in your natural condition, should you weep your hearts out, and send streams of blood from your eyes, in mourning but for any one sin; suppose that which thou countest a little matter, a sin in thought, shouldest thou resolve to cry out and mourn for that one sin all thy life, it will not be accepted, unless thou comest under the blessed liberty purchased by Christ: therefore know the difference of being under the Law and under the Gospel.

Fourteenthly, Nay the Law accepts of no repentance; it will not discharge the guilt of any one sinne, for all the sorrow in the world. And here lieth a great mistake of people, when they have offended, they think they will be carefull to make amends; and they will mourn and repent, &c. It is true, if you be under the covenant of grace, this is something; but if you be in your naturall condition, should you weep your hearts out, and send streames of blood from your eyes, in mourning but for any one sinne; suppose that which thou countest a little matter, a sinne in thought, shouldest thou resolve to cry out and mourne for that one sinne all thy life, it will not be accepted, unlesse thou commest under the blessed liberty purchased by Christ: therefore know the difference of being under the Law and under the Gospel.