and changeth not. He is 'the LAMB of God, that taketh che sin of the world.'- John i. 29. He went through all thy temptations, dejections, sorrows, desertions, rejections, Matth. iv. 3, to 12. and 27. Mark xv. 34. Luke xxii. 44. Matth. xxvi. 36. He hath drunk the bitterest of the cup, and left thee the sweet: the condemnation is out. Christ drunk up all the Father's wrath at one draught; and nothing but salvation is left for thee.- Thou sayest I cannot believe, I cannot repent; Christ is exalted a Prince and a Saviour, to give repentance and remission of sins, Acts v. 31. Hast thou nought but sin and misery? Go to Christ with all thy impenitency and unbelief, to get faith and repentance from him; that is glorious. Tell Christ, 'Lord I have brought no righteousness, no grace to be accepted in or justified by; I am come for thine, and must have it.' We would be bringing to Christ, and that must not be. Not a penny of nature's highest improvements will pass in heaven, grace will not stand with works, Tit. iii. 5. Rom. xi. 6. That is a terrible point to nature, which cannot think of being stripped of all, not having a rag of duty or righteousness left to look at.
Self-righteousness and self-sufficiency are the darlings of nature, which she pre-
