according as you see it done here.
But if any man,--whose inward heart-desires, and chief designs are toward
these things, who would think himself happy in holiness and conformity to
God, and estimates his blessedness or misery, from his union or separation
from God,--"sin" then "we have an advocate with the Father, even Jesus
Christ the righteous," who hath all that we want, and will not suffer any
accusation to fasten upon us, as long as he lives "to make intercession
for us."

On the other hand, take a view of the promises of the gospel. Though the
immediate and next end of them is to give peace to troubled souls, and
settle us in the high point of our acceptance with God, yet certainly they
have a further end, even purity from sin, as well as pardon of sin,
cleansing from all sin and filthiness as well as covering of filthiness.
"These things I write unto you, that ye sin not." What things? Consider
what goes before, and what follows after, even the publication of the word
of life, and eternal life in him, the declaration of our fellowship with
God in Christ the offering of the blood of Christ, able to cleanse all
sin, the promise of pardon to the penitent, confession of sin,--all these
things I write, "that ye sin not," so that this seems to be the ultimate
end and chief design of the gospel, unto which all tends, unto which all
work together. The promises are for peace, and peace is for purity, the
promises are for faith, and faith is for purifying of the heart, and
performing the precepts, so that, all at length returns to this, from
whence, while we swerved, all this misery is come upon us. In the
beginning it was thus,--man was created to glorify God, by obedience to his
blessed will, sin interposeth and marreth the whole frame, and from this
hath a flood of misery flowed in upon us. Well, the gospel comes offering
a Saviour, and forgiveness in him. Thus peace is purchased, pardon
granted, the soul is restored unto its primitive condition and state of
subordination to God's will, and so redemption ends where creation began,
or rather in a more perfect frame of the same kind. The second Adam builds
what the first Adam broke down, and the Son re-creates what the Father in
the beginning created, yea, with some addition. In this new edition of
mankind, all seems new--"new heavens, and new earth," and that because the
creature that was made old, and defiled with sin, is made new by grace.
Now, hence you may learn the