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a righteouſneſs, &c.? Then couldeſt thou ſay, “O! I ſee enough of grace in Chriſt? Thou Mayeſt ſay that which is the biggeſt word in the world, Thou believest. Untired faith is uncertain faith.
To believing, there muſt go a clear conviction of ſin, and the merits of the blood of Chriſt, and of Chriſt’s willingneſs to ſave upon this conſideration merely, That thou art a ſinner; things all harder than to make a world. All the power in nature cannot get up ſo high in a ſtorm of ſin and guilt, really to believe, there is any grace, any willingneſs in Chriſt to ſave When ſatan charged ſin upon the concience, then for the to charge it upon Chriſt, that is goſpel-like: that is to make him Chriſt, he ſerves for that uſe. To accept Chriſt’s-righteouſneſs lone, his blood alone for ſalvation, that is it ſum of the goſpel. When the ſoul, in all its duties and diſtreſses, can ſay, Nothing but Chriſt, Chriſt alone, for righteouſeſt, juſtiftcation, ſanctification and redemption, x Cor. i. 30, not humblings, not duties, not graces &c. that ſoul hath got above the breach of the billows.
All temptations, ſatan’s advantages, our complainings are laid in ſelf-righteouſneſs.
