Sin

Our Manifesto

Galatians 1:11

… now I felt an inward conviction of personal guilt of the most piercing character. I saw myself a sinner—and what a sight is that! Fearfulness took hold …

Psalm 7

Psalm 7

… The more liberty we have not to sin, makes our sin the greater. He did not this in passion, but in cold blood. The less will, less sin …

Psalm 2

Psalm 2

… sin and Jehovah's power to give the kingdom to his only Begotten. To a graceless neck the yoke of Christ is intolerable, but to the saved sinner …

Election

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

… thy tongue, or one doctrine to palliate thy guilt; your damnation will be entirely your own fault, and your sin will richly merit it, because ye believe not …

First Sermons at New Park Street Chapel

… Angels rejoice over one sinner that repenteth. As a good Puritan said, “Whenever a prodigal returns, they set all Heaven’s bells ringing, because there is another sinner …

Early Criticisms and Slanders (Continued)

… into the blackest gulfs of sin; it would horrify both you and me, if we could allow them to recount their guilt. I could tell you how they …

Psalm 46

Psalm 46

… A place of freedom and liberty, freedom from the guilt of sin, wrath of God, curse of the law, present evil world, bondage to Satan, etc., etc. 6 …

Psalm 21

Psalm 21

… sinner unearthed, and deprived of all hope of concealment. Verses 8, 9. The certainty and terror of the punishment of the wicked. Verses 11, 12. The guilt and …

Psalm 107

Psalm 107

… They were lost in the worst possible place, even as the sinner is who is lost in sin; they wandered up and down in vain searches and researches …

“Thus Saith The Lord:” Or, The Book of Common Prayer Weighed in the Balances of the Sanctuary

Ezekiel 11:15

… his parishioner’s bedside to forgive sin, the man’s sins are not forgiven; and the troubled conscience of the sinner often bears witness to the fact, as …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… I rejoice in free and sovereign grace, saving me from the guilt and power of sin! Grace is a glorious theme, above the loftiest flights of the most …

The Minister in These Times

… vicarious satisfaction, guilt is put away, and the believer is “accepted in the Beloved.” Those who set aside the atonement as a satisfaction for sin, also murder the …

The Call to the Ministry

… How did I rejoice, as one that findeth great spoil, over one poor labourer’s wife who confessed that she felt the guilt of sin, and had found …

Psalm 62

Psalm 62

… And how does it work, when we thus anticipate God, by going our own way? We bring, in many instances, guilt on our conscience; but if not, we …

Psalm 63

Psalm 63

… There are Psalms proper for a wilderness; and we have reason to thank God it is the wilderness of Judah we are in, not the wilderness of Sin …

Psalm 90

Psalm 90

… Divine anger is the effect of sin. Death by sin.— G.R. Verse 8. 1. The notice which God takes of sin. (a) Individual. "Our iniquities." (b) Universal …

Psalm 91

Psalm 91

… sin avenging God; and this knowledge was a means of leading him to a deep sense of his own personal corruption, guilt, and danger as a sinner. (2 …

Psalm 111

Psalm 111

… The bearing of guilt by our great Substitute proved that not even to effect the purposes of his grace would the Lord forget his righteousness; no future strain …

Psalm 26

Psalm 26

… Men sin with the law before their eyes, but divine love, when clearly seen, sanctifies the conversation. If we were not so forgetful of the way of mercy …

Psalm 85

Psalm 85

… Probably the greatest practical heresy of each age is a low idea of our undone condition under the guilt and dominion of sin. While this prevails we shall …

Psalm 138

Psalm 138

… Look over the face of the globe, and see how many, who were once under the unrestrained dominion of sin, are now transformed into the image of their …

Psalm 116

Psalm 116

… my soul and body; from the other, by delivering me from the guilt of sin, which threatened a separation from the favour of God; and are not these …

Psalm 50

Psalm 50

… condemning sin; the guilty shall have no appeal, though all are summoned that they may appeal if they dare. Both angels and men have seen the guilt of …

Psalm 97

Psalm 97

… he that hates sin truly, hates all sin. Secondly, true hatred is fixed; there is no appeasing it but by abolishing the thing hated. Thirdly, hatred is a …

Psalm 137

Psalm 137

… captive by sin—he sits down and weeps when he remembers Zion. Zion is the place where God makes himself known. When a poor awakened sinner is brought …

Psalm 139

Psalm 139

… See if there be any wicked way in me , etc.— Think and be careful what thou art within, For there is sin in the desire of sin: Think …

Psalm 106

Psalm 106

… The sin of envy. Its base nature, its cruel actions its unscrupulous ingratitude, its daring assaults, its abomination before God. Verse 19. The sinner as an inventor. Verses …

Psalm 65

Psalm 65

… the growing sense of his guilt, the second is in the power of their acting. This prevalence cannot be entire, for sin shall not have dominion over them …

Psalm 14

Psalm 14

… Sin is always folly, and as it is the height of sin to attack the very existence of the Most High, so it is also the greatest imaginable …

Psalm 84

Psalm 84

… Men tell me of the treasure Hid in their tents of sin; I look not there for pleasure, Nor choose to enter in. Own then the Lord to …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… goes into the midst of the sea asks to be drowned. Sin is self damnation. The sinner goes downward of his own choice, and if he finds out …

Psalm 42

Psalm 42

… not the mercy of God more than sin in the creature? Is not there free grace where there is guilt? Are not there pardoning mercies where condemnation is …

Psalm 73

Psalm 73

… He was weakened for all practical action, and in great danger of actual sin, and so of a disgraceful fall. How ought we to watch the inner man …

Psalm 119

Psalm 119

… He that prayeth for mercy to forgive the guilt of sin only, seeks not that by sin he should not offend God; but that he may sin and …

Psalm 88

Psalm 88

… His soul, which was free from human sin, was full of human troubles, that we who are full of sin might be free from trouble; his life drew …

Psalm 105

Psalm 105

… Those are wonders of sin who see wonders of grace, and yet are unaffected by them: bad as he was, Pharaoh had not this guilt, for the prodigies …

The Ceremony of Laying the...

… I belong not to the sect of those who are afraid to invite the sinner to Christ. I warn him, I invite him, I exhort him. Hence, then …

Psalm 68

Psalm 68

… The solitary heart, convinced of sin and made to pine alone, is admitted into the family of the Firstborn; the fettered spirit is set free, and its prison …

Psalm 89

Psalm 89

… Saints must smart if they sin: God will see to that. He hates sin too much not to visit it, and he loves his saints too well not …

Psalm 78

Psalm 78

… How could he have fellowship with idols? What concord hath Christ with Belial? Sin is in itself so offensive that it makes the sinner offensive too. Idols of …