Eighteen sermons preached in Oxford 1640 of conversion, unto God. Of redemption, & justification,…

In sin, we must consider two things; the fault and the punishment. Now consider sin as it is in it self, and as it respects the sinner, as acted by him, as respecting the fault of the sinner, it is [Greek or Hebrew], a transgression of the Law; The punishment is death; as it respects the sinner, it is guilt. The sin is not guilt, but the guilt the sinners. For instance, a man that hath told a lye, or sworn an oath, the act is past, but a thing remains which we call the guilt. As if a man commit murder or adultery, the act is past, but yet if he sleep, or walk or wake, the guilt follows him. If he live an hundred years, he is a murderer still, and an adulterer still, the guilt follows him; and nothing can take away the murder or adultery from the soul, but the blood of Christ applied by faith.

In sinne, we must consider two things; the fault and the punishment. Now consider sinne as it is in it self, and as it respects the sinner, as acted by him, as respecting the fault of the sinner, it is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, a transgression of the Law; The punishment is death; as it respects the sinner, it is guilt. The sin is not guilt, but the guilt the sinners. For instance, a man that hath told a lye, or sworn an oath, the act is past, but a thing remains which we call the guilt. As if a man commit murder or adultery, the act is past, but yet if he sleep, or walk or wake, the guilt follows him. If he live an hundred years, he is a murderer still, and an adulterer still, the guilt follows him; and nothing can take away the murder or adultery from the soul, but the blood of Christ applyed by faith.

First, God takes away the punishment. There is now (saith the Apostle) no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after ⟨p. 419⟩the Spirit; what, nothing in him worthy condemnation? God knows we are worthy of a thousand condemnations. There are two Judges; there is a double guilt; when a man is brought to the bar, first, the Jury judge the fact, and then the Judge that sits on the Bench, he judgeth the punishment; one saith guilty or not guilty? the other saith guilty, then he judgeth him. Now when we are justified, we are freed from both these guilts; sin when it is accomplished, it bringeth forth death: You know the natural work of sin, [Greek or Hebrew], it labours with death; now God will stop the acts of it, that it shall not do that which it is apt to do, which is as good as if the sin were taken away; when there were wild gourds sliced into the pot,