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Kenneth Macrae, a Scottish preacher in the first half of the 20th Century, speak of his sin in this way. I am often in a delemma between Antinomianism (antinomianism is the belief that Christians are liberated from the observance of moral laws when God's grace is active) and Legalism. Sin often - too, too often – gets the better of me, and sometimes I consent to it with a deliberation which frightens me. When thus the conscience becomes clouded with guilt, and all liberty and joy in God’s service are swallowed up in a chill apprehension of having offended Him, what am I to do? Were that question put to me by another, I would at once reply: “Flee to the blood of Christ, and, confessing your guilt and weakness, believingly plead its merits and seek to apply it to your wounded conscience”; but when I come to my own case I find it not so simple. I have come so often upon the same mission, having fallen by the same sin, that I feel that this process cannot continue indefinitely, and that to imagine that it can would be to cheapen sin. And yet I cannot promise the Lord that I shall put an end to it by refusing to yield to sin’s wiles, for well I know that in my own strength I cannot do so for a single day. ‘Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?’ And yet, after all, there seems but the one way of relief; but God is not unduly hasty in lifting the burden of guilt off an offended conscience, for the bearing of it is sore punishment to a gracious soul. The most difficult exercise in to be penetrated both with a lively sense of our sinfulness and with a sense of absolute freedom from condemnation at one and the same time. (Kenneth MacRae Diary p. 294)
