What shall a sinner do? He must obey God’s law. Yet he fails to obey it. Indeed, he cannot obey it. And even if suddenly he could, it would not remove the guilt of the life of sin he has lived until now. So what will a sinner do? Is there no hope? Must he perish forever? The gospel declares that there is hope. “We must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled