Leviticus 26:40-42

Reader! I detain you in this place, to remark the abundant grace of our gracious GOD. Read these verses twice, and if possible never forget them; well might Paul say, where sin abounded grace did much more abound. Romans 5:20. And let me observe for your comfort, as well as my own, on this grand point of confessing our iniquity, which is an evidence of grace in the heart, that this becomes the truest test of the real conversion of the soul towards GOD; and wherever this appears, it carries with it a most decided proof that GOD is reconciled in the blood and righteousness of his SON. For of this we may be very confident, that wherever a soul is made a partaker of the riches of his grace, most heartily and fully will that soul subscribe to the rights of GOD'S justice. This is accepting the punishment of our iniquity. See instances, Psalms 51:4; Joshua 7:19; Ezra 9:6.