This tract focuses upon what it means to be “guilty before God” as an unrighteous sinner, as well as the legal consequences of that guilt. It tells the reader that God’s Perfect Justice charges him with being an unrighteous sinner and that he is undeniably guilty as charged. In view of this it tells him that the judicial sentence for his guiltiness is to “be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power” and that this sentence hangs over his head. He is then told how that God in His longsuffering and grace is for the time being withholding the execution of the sentence, and instead is offering to freely pardon him and justify him unto eternal life. Though he is guilty as charged, God is able to forgive him his sins and justify him unto eternal life because of “the redemption that is in Christ Jesus.”