The nature of this defilement of sin must be inquired into. 1. By some it is reckoned unto guilt- for whereas the inseparable effects of guilt are shame and fear, whereby it immediately evidenced itself in our first parents, and shame, in particular, is from this filth of sin, it may be esteemed an adjunct thereof. Hence sin was said to be -purged by sacrifices- when its guilt was expiated- and Christ is said to -purge our sins by himself,-