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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1874. Excerpt: ... his mask of madness fell off. Though sinners ran mad in sin, though they drive on furiously, as Jehu did, yet if we lay before them their wives and children, dulcia pignora, those sweet pledges, if auy sense remain, they will forget their madness, and not drive over them. Men are wedded to their inclination, stout-hearted, and will go in their own way, over the belly of more than ordinary opposition, till they perish. But the surest and closest note is, if there be not the reign of grace, there is the reign of sin. SERMON V. Then shatt I be upright.--Ps. xix. 13. We have done with David's prayer. We now come to his arguments, taken from the effects, 'Then shall I be upright.' 'Then, ' that is, when kept from presumptuous sins and the dominion of sin. 'Then shall I be upright;' that Jh--(1.) Upright in the account of God; (2.) In the judgment of his own conscience. First, In the account of God. Though God's children are guilty of many failings through ignorance and infirmity, yet their claim, by the covenant of grace, ceaseth not, when they do not allow themselves in the customary practice of any sin against the light of their consciences. A man is a transgressor before God either according to the covenant of works or according to the covenant of grace. According to the covenant of works; so the least failing layeth us open to the curse: James ii. 10, 'Whosoever shall keep the whole law, and yet offend in one point, he is guilty of all.' According to the covenant of grace; so wilful and allowed customary transgressions lay us open to the curse too. Understand that sentence in the rigour of the first covenant which was made with Adam, and the burden of which lieth upon all Adam's seed till they be in Christ, and it concludeth all men under the curse; so none can be upright, but all are...