First of all, The first thing that I told you is meant by Iniquity, it is the breaking, the transgression of Gods Law: Now Christ he hath set believers free from this iniquity, he hath delivered them from the transgression of Gods Law: this is that you have in the 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation, but with the precious blood of Christ: Observe, the precious blood of Christ doth redeem believers from their vain conversation, that is, from the transgression of Gods Law, from a course of disobedience, and of breaking Gods Commandments. I pray observe it, it is a thing that the world thinks not of, Christ hath redeemed believers from the very breaking of Gods commandments from their vain conversation. It is true, believers are not yet perfectly free from all transgression of Gods Law, yet notwithstanding they are freed from a great deal which they were subject to before, which none do obtain but they that do believe: for howsoever they cannot but sin, yet notwithstanding sin doth not reign in them: though they are not delivered from the presence of sin, yet they are delivered from the power of sin, as you have it in Rom. 6. 14. Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the Law but under Grace. Sin indeed it hath a being in believers, but yet notwithstanding, it cannot so act and command them as it did formerly; they do not transgress the Law of God with resolution, with love, with delight; the transgressions of the Law of God which they fall into, they are their burdens, they are their shame, they are their grief, they are the things that they hate, and would not do. Thus I say, in a great part, they are for the present delivered from the first kind of iniquity, from the very violation ⟨p. 27⟩of the Law of God, and in due time they shall come perfectly to be delivered from all transgressions of Gods Law. And there fore Saint Paul in Rom. 7. 24. when he crieth our, Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death? that is, from the power of sin that is in me, who shall deliver me from that Original corruption whereby I am made to commit iniquity, and to transgress Gods Law? He presently subjoineth, I thank God through jesus Christ my Lord. As if he should say, I thank God, Jesus Christ hath delivered me.
First of all, The first thing that I told you is meant by Iniquitie, it is the breaking, the transgression of Gods Law: Now Christ he hath set beleevers free from this iniquitie, he hath delivered them from the transgression of Gods Law: this is that you have in the 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Forasmuch as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain conversation, but with the precious blood of Christ: Observe, the precious blood of Christ doth redeem beleevers from their vain conversation, that is, from the transgression of Gods Law, from a course of disobedience, and of breaking Gods Commandments. I pray observe it, it is a thing that the world thinks not of, Christ hath redeemed beleevers from the very breaking of Gods commandments from their vain conversation. It is true, beleevers are not yet perfectly free from all transgression of Gods Law, yet notwithstanding they are freed from a great deal which they were subject to before, which none doe obtain but they that doe beleeve: for howsoever they cannot but sin, yet notwithstanding sin doth not raign in them: though they are not delivered from the presence of sin, yet they are delivered from the power of sin, as you have it in Rom. 6. 14. Sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the Law but under Grace. Sin indeed it hath a being in beleevers, but yet notwithstanding, it cannot so act and command them as it did formerly; they doe not transgress the Law of God with resolution, with love, with delight; the transgressions of the Law of God which they fall into, they are their burthens, they are their shame, they are their grief, they are the things that they hate, and would not doe. Thus I say, in a great part, they are for the present delivered from the first kind of iniquitie, from the very violation ⟨p. 27⟩of the Law of God, and in due time they shall come perfectly to be delivered from all transgressions of Gods Law. And there fore Saint Paul in Rom. 7. 24. when he cryeth our, Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the bodie of this death? that is, from the power of sin that is in mee, who shall deliver me from that Originall corruption whereby I am made to commit iniquitie, and to transgress Gods Law? He presendy subjoyneth, I thanke God through jesus Christ my Lord. As if he should say, I thank God, Jesus Christ hath delivered me.
