CHAPTER SEVENTEEN JUSTIFICATION Earlier we saw that personal sin takes two basic forms; it burdens the sinner with a “double trouble.” On the one hand sin makes us guilty. Guilt is a wrong relationship with the law of God, involving a liability to punishment. On the other hand, sin gives us a sinful or depraved nature. It infects the soul (and the body) with spiritual weakness and corruption. Because the sinner’s problem is twofold, grace as the content of salvation must also be twofold—a “double