Je 31, 34 Je 33, 8 Is 44, 22 Is 1, 16, 18 Mi 7, 19 Ps 50, 3 Ps 40, 5 18. GRACE NOT ONLY COVERS BUT BLOTS OUT SIN. shall know Me, from the least Neither fornicators, nor 1 more. I will cleanse them from you are justified in the Name all their iniquity, whereby of our Lord Jesus Christ, they have sinned against Me; and in the Spirit of our and I will forgive all their God. Ro 8, 1 C 6, 10 11 iniquities, whereby they have I will save you from all Ez 36, 29 Jesus answered him: If I Jn 13, 8 I have blotted out thy wash thee not, thou shalt sins as a mist. Return to God Himself will come and Is 35, 5-6 I am, I am He that blot out Is 43,25 thy iniquities for My Own He appeared to take away our sins. He will turn again, and 19.-GRACE I will turn My Hand to thee, and I will clean purge away thy dross. HEALS AND RESTORES IT, WHEN SICK WITH SIN, TO PERFECT HEALTH. 1J3, 5 Is 1, 25 I said: O Lord, be Thou Heal me, O Lord, and I Je 17, 14 merciful to me: heal my shall be healed: save me, soul, for I have sinned and I shall be saved: for against Thee. Thou art my praise. Mt 9, 12 Mt 9, 13 Jn 7, 23 Ro 6, 23 2 T2, 15 16 Ro 5, 21 Tt 3, 7 They that are in health Blind the heart of this Is 6, 10 need not a physician, but people, and make their ears they that are ill. Theavy, and shut their eyes: I am not come to call the lest they see with their eyes, just, but sinners. and hear with their ears, and Are you angry at Me be- understand with their heart, cause I have healed the whole and be converted, and I heal man on the Sabbath-day? them. 20. GRACE THE PLEDGE OF GLORY, THE PRINCIPLE AND CAUSE OF MERIT. The grace of God [is] Life became to all that obey Him Now our Lord Jesus All things of His divine 2 Pt 1, 3 every good work and word. If I should distribute all 1 C13, 3 nothing. Being justified by His Abide in Me, and I in you. Jn 15, 4-5 grace, we may be heirs ac- As the branch cannot bear cording to hope of Life Ever- fruit of itself, unless it abide lasting. in the vine, so neither can Ro 8, 16-17 The Spirit Himself giveth you, unless you abide in Me. testimony to our spirit that -I am the Vine; you the we are the sons of God;-branches. He that abideth And if sons, heirs also: heirs in Me, and I in him, the indeed of God, and joint- same beareth much fruit: heirs with Christ. for without Me you can do Ga 4, 7 He 5, 9 2 C 6, 1 Ro 5, 1 Now he is no more a ser-nothing. vant, but a son. And if a The water that I will give Jn 4, 14 son, an heir also through him shall become in him a God. fountain of water, springing Being consummated, He up into Life Everlasting. 21.-INCITEMENT ΤΟ USE AND CAREFULLY TO HOLD FAST TO GRACE. We helping do exhort you, let us have peace with God, Being justified by faith, Christ. our Lord Jesus Stand fast, and be not Ga 5, 1 He 13, 9 Eci 30, 15 held again under the yoke eth, and keepeth his gar- revenues. 38 all gold and silver: and a Blessed are those servants Lu 12,37sound body than immense whom the Lord, when He cometh, shall find watching. Ap 22, 14 Blessed are they that wash-And if He shall come in their robes: that they may the second watch, or if He have a right to the Tree of shall come in the third Life, and may enter in by watch, and find them so, the gates into the City. blessed are those servants. Ap 16, 15 Blessed is he that watch Ap 22, 11 Eci 18, 22 Pv 4, 18 Ps 83, 6-7 Ph 3, 13 Ep 4, 15 22.-EXHORTATIONS TO INCREASE IN GRACE. As new-born babes, desire 1 Pt 2, 2 Grow in grace, and in the 2 Pt 3, 18 hath set. But doing the truth in Ca 1, 3 Ps 79, 4 23.-EJACULATIONS OF THE SOUL, YEARNING FOR Draw me, we will run in Thee; let me not stray from Thou hast brought forth, Ps 23, 4 Jn 4, 15-16 Sir, give me this water O Lord, my soul from hell: that I may not thirst [for Thou hast saved me from ever. Give me water which them that go down into the will become in me] a fountain pit. Pv 25, 4 Ps 29, 8 2 E1, 11 Je 31, 18 Ha 3, 2 La 5, 21 Ps 67, 29 of water springing up into Incline, O my God, Thy Da 9, 18 Thy Name. Convert me, and I shall be converted, for Thou art the Lord my God. delay not, for Thy own sake, O Lord, Thy work in the If our iniquities have Je 14, 7 midst of the years bring it to testified against us, O Lord, life: when Thou art angry do Thou it for Thy Name's Thou wilt remember mercy. Convert us, O Lord, to Thee, and we shall be con sake: for our rebellions are 21 verted: renew our days as We acknowledge, O Lord, Je 14, 20- Let the brightness of the Give us not to be a reproach, us. Ps 118, 5, O that my ways may be O Lord, be Thou merciful Ps 40, 5, 10,17 directed to keep Thy justi- to me: heal my soul, for I fications-With my whole have sinned against Thee; 10 & K 24, 10 mercy on me, and raise me vant, because I have done I have sinned very much O Lord God, be merciful, Am 7, 2 in what I have done: but II beseech Thee: who shall pray Thee, O Lord, to take raise up Jacob, for he is very away the iniquity of Thy ser-little ? PART V. VIRTUE, VICE, AND SIN IN GENERAL. 66 MAN either corresponds with the light and energy Sin considered generically is " a free transgression |