And, first, To believers in Christ, walking thus, _there is no condemnation_ on account of their past sins. God condemneth them not for any of these: they are as tho’ they had never been. They are _cast as a stone into the depth of the sea_, and he remembreth them no more. God having _set forth his Son to be a propitiation for them, thro’ faith in his blood, hath declared_ unto them _his righteousness, for the remission of the sins that are past_. He layeth therefore none of these to their charge; their memorial is perished with them. 2. And there is no condemnation in their own breast; no sense of guilt, or dread of the wrath of God. They _have the witness in themselves_; they are conscious of their interest in the blood of sprinkling. _They have not received again the spirit of bondage unto fear_, unto doubt and racking uncertainty; but they _have received the Spirit of adoption, crying in their hearts, Abba, Father_. Thus being _justified by faith, they have_ the _peace_ of God ruling in their hearts: flowing from a continual sense of his pardoning mercy, and _the answer of a good conscience toward God_. 3. If it be said, But sometimes a believer in Christ, may lose his sight of the mercy of God; sometimes such darkness may fall upon him, that he no longer sees him that is invisible, no longer feels that witness in himself of his part in the atoning blood; and then he is inwardly condemned, he hath again _the sentence of death in himself_: I answer, supposing it so to be, supposing him not to see the mercy of God, then he is not a believer; for faith implies light; the light of God shining upon the soul. So far therefore as any one loses this light, he for the time loses his faith. And no doubt a true believer in Christ, may lose the light of faith. And so far as this is lost, he may for a time fall again into condemnation. But this is not the case of them who now _are in Christ Jesus_, who now believe in his name. For so long as they believe and walk after the Spirit, neither God condemns them nor their own heart.