A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Use 3 Thirdly, If there be so great evil and danger in little Sins, hence learn wha• absolute need we stand in of Christ, no• only those among us whose Lives an• openly gross and scandalous, but eve• those who are most circumspect and most careful in their Walkings. Though you do not wallow and roll your self in the common Filth and Pollutions o• the World; yet is it not possible but tha• our Garments should be sometimes spotted? An absolute and perfect State is rather to be wished for than enjoyed in this Life: The utmost that we can attain to here, is not to commit great Sins, nor to allow our selves in little Sins when thorough daily Infirmity we do commit them. Why, now these little Sins that the best of God's Servants daily and hourly slip into, cannot be pardoned without the Blood of a great and mighty Saviour. It is the same precious Blood of Jesus Christ that satisfied Divine Justice, for the Incest of Lot, for the Drunkenness of Noah, for the Adultery and Murder of David, and for the ⟨p. 91⟩Perjury of Peter, that must satisfy it also for thy vain Thoughts, and for thy Foolish and idle Words, if ever thou art saved: For without Blood there is no remission, Heb. 9.22.¹ And without remission there is no salvation, Acts 26.18. The same Blood that is a Propitiation and Atonement for the greatest Sins of the Saints now in Heaven, many whereof possibly have been as great as ever were committed on Earth; the same Blood of Atonement must take from thee the Guilt of thy vain Thoughts, and of thy idle Words, or thou must for ever perish under them.

Ʋse 3 Thirdly, If there be so great evil and danger in little Sins, hence learn wha• absolute need we stand in of Christ, no• only those among us whose Lives an openly gross and scandalous, but eve those who are most circumspect and most careful in their Walkings. Though you do not wallow and roll your selve in the common Filth and Pollutions o the World; yet is it not possible but tha our Garments should be sometimes spotted? An absolute and perfect State is rather to be wished for than enjoy'd in this Life: The utmost that we can attain to here, is not to commit great Sins, nor to allow our selves in little Sins when thorough daily Infirmity we do commit them. Why, now these little Sins that the best of God's Servants daily and hourly slip into, cannot be pardon'd without the Blood of a great and mighty Saviour. It is the same precious Blood of Jesus Christ that satisfied Divine Justice, for the Incest of Lot, for the Drunkenness of Noah, for the Adultery and Murder of David, and for the