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yet he fell short of the glory of God: i. e., he lost that glory in the enjoyment of God, which he had so good a prospect o f ; he lost the image of God, which was his glory, given him of God, with all the consequential ad­ vantages of it. All men and women, descending from Adam in an ordinary way, have sinned, and thereby come short of the glory of God. W hat S in I mports Sin, which is here charged upon all, properly and for­ mally imparts : 1. A want of conformity to the law of God. The law requires and enjoins no duty. It obliges us not only to actions so and so qualified, but to have a right prin­ ciple of action; it not only enjoins holy thoughts, holy words, and holy actions, but moreover it requires that the very frame and temper of our hearts be holy; and when we fall short of this, then we sin. That the-law obliges us as to the frame of our heart, is plain, since it re­ quires that the tree be good as well as the fruit; that the worship and service we perform to God be with the whole strength, soul and heart. 2. Sin imports a transgression of the law, for “sin is a transgression of the law” (1 John 3:4). Indeed, when transgression is taken in a large sense, it compre­ hends all sin; but it may be, and is frequently restricted to actual sins* and sins of commission; as the former branch of the description is to original sin, and sins of omission. Sin is an opposition to the law of God. God bids do, arise, work; man transgresses the command, and sits still idle. God forbids such and such sinful, actions; man does them in opposition to the command of God,, which flows from a contempt of God’s authority; so that we may say, 3. That every sin implies^ in its formal nature, con­ tempt of God, as that which is its source. Sin flows from a secret enmity of heart against the Almighty, and there­ fore carries in it a high contempt of Him. It may be, men are so blind that they cannot discern any .such, thing in it; but God makes breaking the law, and despising or con­ temning the law, to be all one (Amos 2 :4). “Thus saith the Lord, For three transgressions of Judah, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof, because they have despised the law of the Lord, and have not kept His commandments, and their lies caused them to err, after which their fathers have walked.” Sin in most men’s eyes is a harmless thing ; but how far otherwise would it be if its nature were seen in a just light by the eye of faith ; if we saw it trampling upon God’s authority, goodness and holiness, and even endeavoring as it were to ungod Him. T h e S infulness O f S in The apostle James tells us, “Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point,, he is guilty of all” (Jas. 2:10). Is it a small thing to you to tram­ ple upon, to tread under foot, the holy, the righteous law of God, that is the perfect image and representation of all His holiness and spotless purity? but if yet ye will not see the cursed nature of sin, then we bid you; take a view of it in the nature of the great God, the feat of all majesty, glory, beauty, and excellency; and if you look at it here, O, how ugly will it appear! Nothing in all the world contrary and opposite to the nature of God, but sin. The meanest, the most apparently deformed crea­ ture in the world, the toad, the crawling insect, carries in its nature nothing really opposite to the nature of God; sin, only sin, stands in opposition to Him. This he can-

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