Sermons preached

III. The third thing is our Recovery out of grievous Lapses and Falls. In them there is required a particular and express Repentance; And Repentance and Faith must be carried with respect to those four things are in Sin, Culpa the Fault, Reatus the Guilt, Macula the Stain and Blot, and Poena the Punishment. You know the Law supposeth a righteous Nature that God gives to Man, therefore in Sin there is a Stain or Blot, defacing God's Image. The Precepts of the Law require Duty, so it is Culpa, a criminal Act; the Sanction of the Law as threatened makes way for Guilt, as executed calls for Punishment, you see how it ariseth.

III. The third thing is our Recovery out of greivous Lapses and Falls. In them there is required a particular and express Repentance; And Repentance and Faith must be carried with respect to those four things are in Sin, Culpa the Fault, Reatus the Guilt, Macula the Stain and Blot, and Poena the Punishment. You know the Law supposeth a righteous Nature that God gives to Man, therefore in Sin there is a Stain or Blot, defacing God's Image. The Precepts of the Law require Duty, so it is Culpa, a criminal Act; the Sanction of the Law as threatned makes way for Guilt, as executed calls for Punishment, you see how it ariseth.

(1.) For the Fault in the Transgression of the Law, or the criminal Action. See that the Fault be not continued, Relapses are very dangerous. A Bone often broken in the same place is hardly set again. God's Children are in danger of this before the Breach be well made up, or the Orifice of the Wound be soundly closed; as Lot doubled his Incest, and Samson goes in again and again to Delilah. But in wicked Men frequently, as that King sent Fifty after Fifty, and nothing would stop him. There is an express forsaking of Sin required of us, otherwise it would abolish all the Difference between the Renewed and the Carnal.

(1.) For the Fault in the Transgression of the Law, or the criminal Action. See that the Fault be not continued, Relapses are very dangerous. A Bone often broken in the same place is hardly set again. God's Children are in danger of this before the Breach be well made up, or the Orifice of the Wound be soundly closed; as Lot doubled his Incest, and Samson goes in again and again to Dalilah. But in wicked Men frequently, as that King sent Fifty after Fifty, and nothing would stop him. There is an express forsaking of Sin required of us, otherwise it would abolish all the Difference between the Renewed and the Carnal.