III. 1. It remains only, to draw some practical inferences from the preceding considerations. And, first, If there be _no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, and walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit_, on account of their past sin: then why art thou fearful, O thou of little faith? Tho’ thy sins were once more in number than the sand, what is that to thee now thou art in Christ Jesus? _Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth: who is he that condemneth?_ All the sins thou hast committed from thy youth up, until the hour when thou wast _accepted in the Beloved_, are driven away as chaff, are gone, are lost, swallowed up, remembered no more. Thou art now _born of the Spirit_: wilt thou be troubled or afraid for what is done before thou wert born? Away with thy fears! Thou art not called to fear; but to the _Spirit of love and of a sound mind_. Know thy calling. Rejoice in God thy Saviour, and give thanks to God thy Father through him. 2. Wilt thou say, “But I have again committed sin, since I had redemption through his blood? And therefore it is, that _I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes_.” It is meet thou shouldst abhor thyself; and it is God who hath wrought thee to this self-same thing. But dost thou now believe? Hath he again enabled thee to say, _I know that my Redeemer liveth: and the life which I now live, I live by faith in the Son of God_? Then that faith again cancels all that is past, and there is no condemnation to thee. At whatsoever time thou truly believest in the name of the Son of God, all thy sins antecedent to that hour, vanish away as the morning dew. Now then, _Stand thou fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made thee free_. He hath once more made thee free from the power of sin, as well as from the guilt and punishment of it. _O be not intangled again with the yoke of bondage!_ Neither the vile, devilish bondage of sin; of evil desires, evil tempers, or words, or works, the most grievous yoke on this side hell: nor the bondage of slavish, tormenting fear, of guilt and self-condemnation.