4. And being saved from guilt, they are saved from fear. Not indeed from a filial fear of offending; but from all servile fear, from that _fear which hath torment_, from fear of punishment, from fear of the wrath of God; whom they no longer regard as a severe master, but as an indulgent father. _They have not received again the spirit of bondage; but the spirit of adoption, whereby they cry, Abba, Father: the spirit itself also bearing witness with their spirits that they are the children of God._ They are also saved from the fear, tho’ not from the possibility, of falling away from the grace of God, and coming short of the great and precious promises: thus have they _peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. They rejoice in hope of the glory of God. And the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts, through the Holy Ghost, which is given unto them._ And hereby they are _persuaded_ (tho’ perhaps not at all times, nor with the same fulness of persuasion) that _neither death nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, nor heighth nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate them from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord_. 5. Again, through this faith they are saved from the power of sin, as well as from the guilt of it. So the apostle declares, _Ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins, and in him is no sin. Whosoever abideth in him sinneth not._ (chap. iii. 5, &c.) Again, _Little children, let no man deceive you.――He that committeth sin is of the devil.――Whosoever believeth is born of God. And whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin, for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God._ Once more, _We know that whatsoever is born of God sinneth not: but he that is begotten of God, keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not_, chap. v. 18. 6. He that is by faith born of God, sinneth not, 1. By any habitual sin: for all habitual sin, is sin reigning. But sin cannot reign in any that believeth. Nor, 2. By any wilful sin, for his will, while he abideth in the faith, is utterly set against all sin, and abhorreth it as deadly poison. Nor, 3. By any sinful desire; for he continually desireth the holy and perfect will of God; and any unholy desire, he by the grace of God stifleth in the birth. Nor, 4. Doth he sin by infirmities, whether in act, word or thought. For his infirmities have no concurrence of his will; and without this they are not properly sins. Thus, _He that is born of God doth not commit sin_. And tho’ he cannot say, _He hath not sinned_, yet now, _he sinneth not_.