The covenant of life opened, or, A treatise of the covenant of grace

The more of Christ and his sufferings be apprehended, the more Godly sense of sin, so far is Christs death from blotting out all sense of sin:¹ For if sense of sin be all one with a simple reflecting knowledge, that we once sinned, then the Godly in this life from grace, not from the stirring of the Law, do both know and acknowledge what they were. 1 Tim. 1.13. I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, &c. I was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious▪ but I obtained mercy. Tit. 3.3. We our selves were ⟨p. 222⟩also sometimes foolish, disobedient, &c. Yea the glorified cannot before the Throne sing the glory of the Lamb slain and the price of Redemption payed, Rev. 5▪12. to redeem them from sin, but there must be even in glory, this sense of their debt, though without heart break or sorrow. Then it cannot be a Doctrine of the Gospel that paying of our debt, and the ransom, doth score out of a gracious memory the counts of a payed debt: The more I know what Christ hath done, the more I should kiss and embrace the gracious surety, and these kisses of Glory, and that song, worthy is the Lamb, &c. say that grace and the faith of the price payed do enlarge rather the holy memory and sense of sin, then obliterate it. Hence the translated out of sense of grace, cast back their eye to the pit, the drudgery of bondage they were once in, Ep•. 2.3, 4, 5. Tit. 3.3, 4, 5. 1 Tim. 1.13, 14. with loving and praising the riches of grace. And must it not be good to read old counts, and weep for joy, and cast and dart up praises to him who is at the right hand of the Father, and sorrow for old debts, and love much him who freely pardons?

THe more of Christ and his sufferings be apprehended, the more Godly sense of sin, so far is Christs death from bloting out all sense of sin: