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honey that you suck from your own righteousness, will turn into perfect gall; and the light that you take from that to walk in, will turn into black night on the soul. Satan is tempting thee, by putting thee to plod about thy own grace, to get comfort from it. There the Father comes, and points thee to Christ's grace, (as rich, glorious, and infinitely pleasing to him,) and biddest thee study Christ's righteousness. Hic biddings are enablings,- a blessed power - a sweet whisper, checking thine unbelief. Follow the least hint; close with much prayer; prize it as an invaluable jewel; it is an earnest of more to come.
Thou who hast seen Christ all, and thyself absolutely nothing, who makest Christ all thy life, and art dead to all righteousness besides; thou art the Christian, one highly beloved, who hath found favour with God, a favourite of heaven. Do Christ this one favour for all his love to thee, love his poor saints and people, (the meanest, the weakest, notwithstanding any difference in judgment,) they are engraven on his heart, as the names of the children of Israel on Aaron's breast-plate, Exod. xxviii. 21. Let them be so on thine. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem, they shall prosper that love thee,' Psalm cxxii. 6.
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