The saints dignity and duty· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardness. /…The saints dignitie and dutie· Together with the danger of ignorance and hardnesse. /…

And not to prove this only in general, you shall see it proved in all the particulars, how that the Lord Christ hath been a ransom, and setteth free all believers from all Iniquity.

And not to prove this onely in generall, you shall see it proved in all the particulars, how that the Lord Christ hath been a ransome, and setteth free all beleevers from all Iniquitie.

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