rn.'

'Free, full, and everlasting.' Pope Innocent the Third came to the
rescue of King John and issued a Papal bull revoking and annulling Magna
Charta. But neither king, nor pope, nor devil can revoke or annul our
new Covenant. It is free, full, and everlasting. If God be for us, who
can be against us? Who shall separate us from the love of Christ?
Neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, shall
be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our
Lord.

2. 'Free, full, and everlasting forgiveness of all the wrongs, the
injuries, and the offences you have done against My Father, Me, your
neighbours, and yourselves.' Now, out of all that let us fix upon
this--the wrongs and the injuries we have done to our neighbours. For,
as Calvin says somewhere, though our sins against the first table of the
law are our worst sins, yet our sins against the second table, that is,
against our neighbours, are far better for beginning a scrutiny with. So
they are. For our wrongs against our neighbours, when they awaken within
us at all, awaken with a terrible fury. Our wrongs against our
neighbours wound, and burden, and exasperate an awakened conscience in a
fearful way. We come afterwards to say, Against Thee, Thee only have I
sinned! But at the first beginning of our repentances it is the wrongs
we have done to our neighbours that drive us beside ourselves. What
neighbour of yours, then, have you so wronged? Name him; name her. You
avoid that name like poison, but it is not poison--it is life and peace.
More depends on your often recollecting and often pronouncing that
hateful name than you would believe. More depends upon it than your
minister has ever told you. And, then, in what did you so wrong him?
Name the wrong also. Give it its Bible name, its newspaper name, its
brutal, vulgar, ill-mannered name. Do not be too soft, do not be too
courtly with yourself. Keep your own evil name ever before you. When
you hear any other man outlawed and ostracised by that same name, say to
yourself: Thou, sir, art the man! Put out a secret and a painful skill
upon yourself. Have times and places and ways that nobody knows anything
about--not even those you have wronged; have times and places and ways
they would laugh to be told of, and would not believe it; times, I say,
and places and ways for bringing all those old wrongs you once did ever
and ever back to mind; as often back