What infinite numbers of these infinite sins have we committed? By Ezekiel Hopkins. Consider how great and manifold our sins and offenses have been. And every act of sin, yes, the least that ever we committed, is an infinite debt, and carries in it an infinite guilt, because committed against an infinite majesty.

For all offenses take their measures, not only from the sin committed, but from the person against whom they are committed. A reviling, injurious word against our equals will not be punishable by law. But the same reviling, injurious word against the king, it is high treason and punishable with death. Just so the least offense against the infinite majesty of the great God becomes itself infinite. The guilt of it is far beyond whatever we can possibly conceive.

And yet, what infinite numbers of these infinite sins have we committed? The psalmist tells us in Psalm 40, verse 12, My sins have overtaken me, and I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart fails within me.

Our thoughts are incessantly in motion. They keep pace with the moments, and yet every imagination of the thoughts of our hearts is only evil all the time. What multitudes of them have been grossly wicked and impious, atheistic, blasphemous, impure, worldly, or malicious?

And besides the sins of our thoughts, how much have our tongues added to the sum of our sins? We have talked ourselves into debt to the justice of God, and with our own breath we have been fanning the flames of our own everlasting and unquenchable fire. and add to these the numberless crowd and sum of our sinful actions wherein we have busily employed ourselves to provoke the holy and jealous God to wrath.

We shall find our sins to be doubly infinite in their own particular guilt and demerit. Yet there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Thanks be to Jesus, who rescues us from the coming wrath.