Leviticus 5

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. V.—How necessary it is to have a particular sight and sense of our sins! It therefore becomes us to keep an universal guard over all the powers of our soul and members of our body; and over none more than our tongue. Grievous is the crime of robbing God and his ministers! And, however mortifying, an honest restitution is necessary. Nor have we any reason to believe our crime pardoned while we retain the wages of unrighteousness; for sin is unsavoury to the truly penitent soul! But bless the Lord, O my soul, that the oblation of Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God,—of Jesus, the corn of wheat,—suits every trespass which I can be guilty of! Bless him that herein provision is made for the vilest sinner of mankind, and the poorest mortal upon earth; and that poverty is no bar in our way to heaven through him, nor our access to the God of heaven. Meanwhile, let me take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my heart, my hand, or my tongue; since nothing less than the blood of God can expiate the most unwitting and involuntary mistake! E K