Pardoned sins cannot hurt the sinner. And though it troubles him that he hath sinned, yet his sins cannot trouble him. He who is once purged hath no more conscience of sin. This is the glory of the gospel. Free grace and justification takes all our sins off the file as if they were not at all. Pardon is the blotting of transgressions out of God's book, And if they are once blotted out of God's book, we need not care who writes them in their book, nor what books men or devils write against us.

Precious Lord Jesus, clothe me with the wedding garment of your righteousness and feed me with the rich food of your body and blood. Be my covering, my joy, and my all so that when I am at your church, at your table, at your house of prayer below, or at your kingdom of glory above, you, the king, will come in to see your guests and my soul may cry out. I will say in your own blessed words and with a joy unspeakable and full of glory, I delight greatly in the Lord. My soul rejoices in my God for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of his righteousness. As a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. Robert Hawker.