dless and fruitless agitation, and perplexity
of mind, and will not rather come straightway at it, by the door of Jesus
Christ? For he is the new and living way into which you must enter, if ye
would walk in the light. And the wounds of his side, out of which this
blood gushed, these open you a way of access to him, because he was
pierced for us. That stream of blood, if ye come to it and follow it all
along, it will certainly carry you to the sea of light and love, where you
have fellowship with God. And, oh! how much comfort is in it, that there
is such a stream running all the way of our walking with God--all the way
of our fellowship! That fountain of Christ's blood runs not dry but runs
along with the believer, for the cleansing of his after pollutions, of his
defilements, even in the very light itself. This, then, as it is the first
foundation of peace and communion with God, so it is the perpetual
assurance and confirmation of it, that which first gives boldness, and
that alone which still continues boldness in it. It is the first ground,
and the constant warrant and security of it, without which it would be as
soon dissolved as made. If that blood did not run along all this way, to
wash all his steps, if the way of light and fellowship with God were not
watered and refreshed with the continual current of this blood, certainly
none could walk in it without being consumed. Therefore it is, that the
mercy of God, and riches of grace in Christ, hath provided this blood for
us, both to cleanse the sins of ignorance before believing, and the sins
of light after believing, that a poor sinner may constantly go on his way,
and not be broken off from God by his infirmities and escapes in the way.

You see, then, the gospel runs in these two golden streams--pardon of sin,
and purity of walking. They run undividedly, all along in one channel, yet
without confusion one with another, as it is reported of some great rivers
that run together between the same banks, and yet retain distinct colours
and natures all the way, till they part. But these streams that glad the
city of God never part one from another. The cleansing blood and the
purifying light, these are the entire and perfect sum of the gospel.
Purification from sin, the guilt of sin, and the purity of walking in the
light flowing from that, make up the full complexion of Christianity,
which are so nearly conjoined together, that if they be divided they cease
to be, and