Of Communion with God the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost

A further knowledge of sin upon all Accounts whatever, §. 24 is given by the Law; that Law which was added because of transgressions. This revives doctrinally all that sense of good and evil which was at first implanted in man: and it is a glass whereinto ¹whosoever is able spiritually to look, may see sin in all its ugliness and deformity. The truth is, look upon the Law in its Purity, Holiness, Compass, and Perfection, its manner of delivery ^gwith dread, terror, thunder, Earthquakes, fire, the sanction of it, ⟨p. 106⟩in death, curse, wrath, and it makes a wonderful discovery of sin, upon every account, its pollution, guilt, and exceeding sinfulness are seen by it. But yet all this doth not suffice to give a man a true and thorough conviction of sin. Not but that the Glass is clear, but of our selves we have not eyes to look into it; the Rule is straight, but we cannot apply it: and therefore Christ sends his Spirit to convince the World of sin, Joh: 16 8. who, though as to some ends and purposes he makes use of the Law, yet the work of conviction, which alone is an useful knowledge of sin, is his peculiar work. And so the discovery of sin, may also be said to be by Christ, to be part of the Wisdom that is hid in him. But yet there is a twofold regard besides this, of his sending his Spirit to convince us, wherein this wisdom appears to be hid in him.

A further knowledge of sinne upon all Accounts whatever, §. 24 is given by the Law; that Law which was added because of transgressions. This revives doctrinally all that sense of good and evill which was at first implanted in man: and it is a glasse whereinto ¹whosoever is able spiritually to look, may see sinne in all its uglinesse and deformity. The truth is, look upon the Law in its Purity, Holinesse, Compasse, and Perfection, its manner of delivery ^gwith dread, terrour, thunder, Earthquakes, fire, the sanction of it, ⟨p. 106⟩