The truly blessed man

1. Every Sin is a Transgression of the Law of God. For nothing else can give it that denomination; and truly this puts a black character upon it. It cannot be a light matter, which the great God put so much weight upon, as to insert it in that Law by which he Governs men to an everlasting state of Happiness or misery; and yet this respect hath every sin.

2 Hence every sin brings men under the Guilt of Death. Though there be degrees in it, yet there is but one kind of punishment put into the threatening for Sin, and that is death, which is the wages of sin▪ Rom. 6.23. So that the man is obnoxious, if it be but a vain thought, or an idle word, or whatever in the least falls short of the perfect Obedience required: he is laid under the Sentence, and held fast by it.

2 Hence every sin brings men under the Guilt of Death. Though there be degrees in it, yet there is but one kind of punishment put into the threatning for Sin, and that is death, which is the wages of sin▪ Rom. 6.23. So that the man is obnoxious, if it be but a vain thought, or an idle word, or whatever in the least falls short of the perfect Obedience required: he is laid under the Sentence, and held fast by it.

3. Hence if that sin be not forgiven, he is undone for ever. The least sin unpardoned, will as certainly bring the man to everlasting destruction, as all the vile and abominable transgressions that the greatest monsters of iniquity have committed. The Justice of God requires it, the voice of the Law, which is the Rule of Relative Justice in Gods proceeding with men, declares this man to be a dead man,