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Nature can afford no balsam fit for soulcuse. Healing from duty, and not from Christ, is the most desperate disease. Poor ragged nature, with all is highest improvements, can never spin a garment fine enough (without spot) to cover the soul's nakedness. Nothing can do it but Christ's perfect righteousness.
If thou hast seen Christ truly, thou hast seen pure grace, pure righteousness in him, every way infinite, far exceeding all sin and misery. If thou hast seen Christ, thou wilt trample upon all the righteousness of men and angels, as to thine acceptation with God. If thou hast seen Christ, thou wouldst not do a duty without him for ten thousand worlds, 1 Cor. ii. 2. If ever thou hast seen Christ, thou hast seen Him a rock higher than self-righteousness. Satan, and sin, Psalm lxi. 2. and this rock and defence doth follow thee, 1 Cor. x. 4, and there will be a continual dropping of honey and grace out of that rock to satisfy thee, Psalm lxxxi. 16. Examine, if ever thou hast beheld Christ, as the the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth, John i. 14, 16, 17. Come to Christ, and give all diligence to make thy calling sure, 2 Pet. i. 10. Stand upon the rock of ages.
Men talk much about believing whilst hole and sound; few do it-Christ is the
