My sins have at times appeared so great, that I have thought one of
them as heinous as all the sins of all the men in the world. Reader,
these things are not fancies, for I have smarted for this
experience; yet the least believing view of the blood of Jesus hath
made my guilt vanish to my astonishment, and delivered me into sweet
and heavenly peace and joy in the Holy Ghost.
Sometimes when my heart hath been hard, slothful, blind, and
senseless--which are sad frames for a poor Christian--then hath the
precious blood of Christ softened, enlivened, quickened, and
enlightened my soul.
When I have been loaded with sin and harassed with temptations, I
had a trial of the virtue of Christ's blood, with a trial of the
virtue of other things; and I have found that when tears, prayers,
repentings, and all other things could not reach my heart, one
shining of the virtue of his blood hath in a very blessed manner
delivered me. It hath come with such life and power, with such
irresistible and marvellous glory, as to wipe off all the slurs,
silence all the outcries, and quench all the fiery darts and flames
of hell-fire, that are begotten by the charges of the law, Satan,
and doubtful remembrances of a sinful life.
SIN AND THE SAVIOUR.
Saints are sweetly sensible that the sense of sin and the assurance
of pardon will make famous work in their poor hearts.
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