HE WAS MANIFESTED --- 1 John 3:4, 5.
"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law, for sin is the transgression of the law: and ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins. --- 1 John 3:4, 5.
There is a far greater power in the blood of Christ to save and cleanse than in sin to defile and destroy, Romans 8:3.
The law became weak to do good, but it hath the power to condemn: "The strength of sin is the law:" the law gives strength to sin, because, by virtue of the curse of the law, sin reigns, and defiles the soul of men, through that righteous curse, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."
But the blood of Jesus Christ hath greater power to save than sin, together with the law, hath to condemn: for the blood of Christ's takes away and abolishes it utterly; where this blood is applied and brought home, sin itself cannot ruin the soul.
The soul is poisoned and corrupted by sin; but the blood of Christ takes away the guilt of sin, yet not the being of it. as we are sanctified but in part, we can only be earnest at the throne of grace that we may be kept by almighty power, and that Jesus may be for us, who is stronger than all that can come against.
O dear incarnate Son of God,
Well wash me in thy precious blood;
Castng all my guilt into that sea,
And let no lust have power o'er me.