A second volume of discourses or sermons on several scriptures

Now this I shall endeavour to do by considering pardon of sin in the Nature of it, in the Concomitants of it, and in the Effects and Consequences of it: From all which it will appear, both how great a Mercy it is to us, and how great a Glory it is to God, that he blots out and forgets sin. And,

First, Let us consider the nature of pardon of sin, what it is. And this we cannot better discover than by looking into the Nature of sin. Sin therefore, as the Apostle describes it, is a Transgression ⟨p. 45⟩of the Law. Now to the Validity of any Law, there are Penalties literally expressed, or tacitly implied, which are altogether necessary. The guilt contracted by the transgressing of the Law, is nothing but our liableness to undergo the Penalty threatened in the Law, and this guilt it is two-fold; the one is intrinsical and necessary, and that is the desert of punishment, which sin carries always in it. The other is extrinsical and adventitious, by which sin is ordained to be punished. These two things are in every sin. Every sin deserves Death, and God hath in his Law ordained and threatened to inflict Death for it.

First, Let us consider the nature of pardon of sin, what it is. And this we cannot better discover than by looking into the Nature of sin. Sin therefore, as the Apostle describes it, is a Transgression ⟨p. 45⟩of the Law. Now to the Validity of any Law, there are Penalties literally expressed, or tacitly implyed, which are altogether necessary. The guilt contracted by the transgressing of the Law, is nothing but our liableness to undergo the Penalty threatned in the Law, and this guilt it is two-fold; the one is intrinsical and necessary, and that is the desert of punishment, which sin carries always in it. The other is extrinsical and adventitious, by which sin is ordained to be punished. These two things are in every sin. Every sin deserves Death, and God hath in his Law ordain'd and threatned to inflict Death for it.