Lastly, what cause have they to rejoice, admire, and praise the Lord to Eternity, who have a well grounded 1confidence that they are freed from Gods condemnation? O give thanks to the Father who hath delivered you from the power of darkness, and translated you into the Kingdom of his dear Son, Col. 1. 13. Rejoice and be exceeding glad, for if you be freed from condemnation, you are out of Satan's power, he hath no more any dominion over you. The power of Satan over men comes in by virtue of their condemnation, as the power of the Jailer or Executioner over the bodies of condemned prisoners doth. Heb. 2. 14. If you be freed from condemnation, the sting of death shall never touch you. For the sting of death smites the souls of men with a deadly stroke only by virtue of Gods condemnatory sentence. 1 Cor. 15. 55, 56. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. If you be freed from condemnation now, you shall stand with comfort and boldness at the Judgement Seat of Christ in the great day, and verily in this thing is the love of God perfected, 1 John 4. 17. O 'tis a privilege in which the grace, mercy and love of God do •ine forth as clearly as the sun when it shineth in its full strength. And certainly you will find cause to lye at the feet of God astonished, and overwhelmed with the sense of this mercy, when you shall find your selves freed from the condemnation of God, whilst many others as good as you were, are still under condemnation. Yea, your selves freed, and many of your Superiors in the world still under the curse, 1 Cor. 1. 26. Yea, your selves freed, and others that sate under the same means of grace, and had the same external advantages you had, still in chains, 2 Cor. 2. 16. O brethren! this is a marvellous deliverance; look on it which way you will, your ransom is paid and not a penny of it by you: it cost you nothing to procure your pardon. Your pardon is full, and not one sin excepted out of it that you ever committed. Your are freed and Jesus Christ condemned in your stead to procure your ⟨p. 550⟩discharge, your pardon is sealed in his blood, and is irrevocable for ever, so that you shall never any more come into condemnation. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life, John 5. 24.
Lastly, what cause have they to rejoyce, admire, and praise the Lord to Eternity, who have a well grounded 1confidence that they are freed from Gods condemnation? O give thanks to the Father who hath delivered you from the power of darkness, and translated you into the Kingdom of his dear Son, Col. 1. 13. Rejoyce and be exceeding glad, for if you be freed from condemnation, you are out of Satans power, he hath no more any dominion over you. The power of Satan over men comes in by vertue of their condemnation, as the power of the Jayler or Executioner over the bodies of condemned prisoners doth. Heb. 2. 14. If you be freed from condemnation, the sting of death shall never touch you. For the sting of death smites the souls of men with a deadly stroak only by vertue of Gods condemnatory sentence. 1 Cor. 15. 55, 56. The sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law. If you be freed from condemnation now, you shall stand with comfort and boldness at the Judgement Seat of Christ in the great day, and verily in this thing is the love of God perfected, 1 John 4. 17. O 'tis a priviledge in which the grace, mercy and love of God do •ine forth as clearly as the sun when it shineth in its full strength. And certainly you will find cause to lye at the feet of God astonished, and overwhelmed with the sense of this mercy, when you shall find your selves freed from the condemnation of God, whilst many others as good as you were, are still under condemnation. Yea, your selves freed, and many of your Superiors in the world still under the curse, 1 Cor. 1. 26. Yea, your selves freed, and others that sate under the same means of grace, and had the same external advantages you had, still in chains, 2 Cor. 2. 16. O brethren! this is a marvellous deliverance; look on it which way you will, your ransome is paid and not a peny of it by you: it cost you nothing to procure your pardon. Your pardon is full, and not one sin excepted out of it that you ever committed. Your are freed and Jesus Christ condemned in your stead to procure your ⟨p. 550⟩discharge, your pardon is sealed in his blood, and is irrevocable for ever, so that you shall never any more come into condemnation. He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death to life,
- 1Inference 6.
