Sin is the transgression of the law. – 1 John 3.4
Issue: Issue 8
THE IMPUTATION OF SIN AND RIGHTEOUSNESS John Owen 1616-1683 When we have opportunity of speaking to you on these occasions, it is for the direction of the exercise of your faith in this ordinance in a due manner. Here is a representation of that which we should principally consider, and act faith with respect unto, …
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness: but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1.18.
Esau cried, not for his sin in selling the birthright; but for his loss in missing the blessing. John Trapp
Some tears God hath no bottle for. Richard Sibbes
Sin may be the occasion of great sorrow, when there is no sorrow for sin.. John Owen
Christ also hath once suffered for sins the just for the unjust that he might bring us to God; being put to death in the flesh but quickened by the Spirit – 1 Peter 3.18.
One thing have I desired of the LORD that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the LORD and to enquire in his temple Psalm 27.4.
Christ is figured in the law, foretold in the prophets, and fulfilled in the Gospel. Henry Smith
And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness even so must the Son of man be lifted up that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have eternal life. John 3.1415.