sacrifices, which can never take away sins: but this man, after he had
offered _one sacrifice_ for sins for ever, sat down on the right
hand of God. For by one offering he hath perfected for ever them that
are sanctified. Whereof the Holy Ghost is also a witness to us; for
after he had said before'--see from verse 5--'This is the covenant
which I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord; I will
put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them;
and their sins and iniquities will I remember no more. Now, where
remission of these is, there is no more offering for sin.' Heb.
10:11-18. Paul says the Holy Ghost is a witness, because he copies
from the ancient Scriptures the prophecies of Jer. 31:31, and Ezek.
36:25, and from Psalm 60:7. Your mother will read to you also the
eighth chapter of Hebrews, containing the same things, the new
covenant, in consequence of Christ, as the surety of sinners, having
made full atonement, magnified the law, and made it honorable;
therefore there is now no condemnation to them who are in
Christ Jesus.

"It has pleased God, my darling, in the adorable plan of
reconciling sinners to himself by Jesus Christ, to perfect at once a
justifying righteousness for them, and to bestow it upon them as a
free gift. 'This is the record, that God hath given to us eternal
life; and this life is in his Son.' 1 John, 5:11. But it has not
pleased him to deliver us at once from depravity; provision is made
for final deliverance by the same covenant, and is effected by the
same power: but in this believers are called to work. It is evident
from Scripture, and the experience of Christians answers to it, that
in the hour of believing they pass from death to life, considered as a
state. This is the hour of the new birth: they then receive life for
the time, and it is their privilege, by the constitution of the new
covenant, to ask and receive, from day to day, grace to help in every
time of need. To them, and not to the unregenerate, the exhortation is
addressed, 'Work out your own salvation with fear and trembling, for
it is God who worketh in you, both to will and to do, of his good
pleasure,' The means are of God's appointing, in the diligent use of
which they go from strength to strength. The grand means is faith in
God's promises, of which there are very many in the Scriptures.
Believers are to put forth their own exertions, as the children of
Israel were called to go out