Christs temptation and transfiguration practically explained and improved in several sermons /

2. Awakened sinners are not easily satisfied, so as to look upon themselves as pleasing unto God: for the Conscience of Sin is not easily laid aside, nor is the stain soon got out. And though the grant be passed in Heaven, yet we have not the sense of it in our own hearts, for it is the Blood of Christ can only do it. Heb. 9. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the ⟨p. 145⟩eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead works to serve the living God. The Carnal offer thousands of Rams, and Rivers of Oil, and the fruit of the body for the sin of their soul, Mic. 6. 6, 7. They would give any thing for a sufficient sin-offering; yea the renewed and pardoned, have not so firm a peace as to be able always to look upon themselves in a state of well-pleasing, therefore often beg that God would dissipate the Clouds and cause the Light of his Countenance to break forth upon them, Psal. 80. 19. Turn us Oh Lord God of Hosts, cause thy face to shine and we shall be saved. So that when there is a grant of Pardon and Peace and Access to God, we have not always the sense.

2. Awakened sinners are not easily satisfied, so as to look upon themselves as pleasing unto God: for the Conscience of Sin is not easily laid aside, nor is the stain soon got out. And though the grant be passed in Heaven, yet we have not the sense of it in our own hearts, for it is the Blood of Christ can onely do it. Heb. 9. 14. How much more shall the blood of Christ who through the ⟨p. 145⟩eternal spirit offered himself without spot to God purge your Conscience from dead works to serve the living God. The Carnal offer thousands of Rams, and Rivers of Oyl, and the fruit of the body for the sin of their soul, Mic. 6. 6, 7. They would give any thing for a sufficient sin-offering; yea the renewed and pardoned, have not so firm a peace as to be able always to look upon themselves in a state of well-pleasing, therefore often beg that God would dissipate the Cloudes and cause the Light of his Countenance to break forth upon them,