The Christian's charter showing the privileges of a believerThe Christian's charter shewing the priviledges of a believer

Answ. And is not Christs blood of a deeper purple then thy sins? is there not more virtue in the one, then there can be venom in the other? what if the devil doth magnify thy sins, canst not thou magnify thy Physician? cannot God drown one sea in another, thy sins in the Ocean of his mercy?

Answ. And is not Christs blood of a deeper purple then thy sins? is there not more vertue in the one, then there can be venom in the other? what if the devil doth magnifie thy sins, canst not thou magnifie thy Physician? cannot God drown one sea in another, thy sinnes in the Ocean of his mercy?

3. But my sins are of a long §3standing?

Answ. As if Christs blood were only for new and fresh wounds? We read that Christ raised not only ⟨p. 257⟩the daughter of Jairus, which was newly* dead, and the widows son which was carried forth to burying; but Lazarus, that had lain four days in the grave, and began to putrefy: and hath Christ less virtue now in Heaven then he had upon earth? if thine be an old wound, yet the medicine of Christs blood applied by faith, is able to heal it: therefore sink not in these quick-sands of despair. Judas his despair, was worse in some sense then his Treason. I would not encourage any to go on in sin, (God forbid,) 'tis sad to have old age and old sins. It is hard to pull up an old tree that is rooted, it is easier to cut it down for the fire; but let not such despair: God can give an old sinner a new heart, he can make springs in the desert^*