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THE SINNER TO BE WROUGHT UPON

Sin creates guilt, because God has a claim upon all our possible to act independently of God, such acts, were If it acts. the moral ideal, would not create guilt. But deviating from tho act in every condition stands in account with every man's since God, every sin creates guilt. Yet they are not identical. Sin always lies in us and leaves our relation to God untouched but g^ilt does not lie in us, but always refers to our relation to God. Sin shows what we are in our antagonism to the moral ideal but guilt refers to God's claim upon us and to our denial of that claim. If God were like a man, this guilt would be compromised. But He is not. His claims are as pure gold, perfectly right not arbitrary, but based invariably upon a firm and unchangeable foundaHence nothing can be deducted from that guilt. According tion. to the strictest measure the whole remains forever charged to us. Hence fhe punishment. For punishment is but God's act of resisting the encroachment upon His rights. Such encroachments rob God, and would, if persisted in, detract from His divinity. And this can not be if He be God indeed. Hence His majesty operates

vine right.

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directly against this encroachment.

ment.

Sin, guilt,

guilt pursues sin,

God's universe.

And

this constitutes punish-

and punishment are inseparable. Only because and punishment prosecutes guilt, can sin exist in

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