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warrant; it is presumption to go to Christ with such a backful of guilt as I have. Answ. I say, it is both pride and presumption to bide away. I hope you will not trust in yourselves or your own strength, or else you would not complain of your being unprepared as ye do. Lean but to Christ, and then complain not, but presume your fill on him providing you think yourself unworthy of him It is not presumption to take a grip of Christ's naked sword, tho' it should cut your hand. O! says the soul. you have not told me of a warrant to rush in unprepared to an angry Christ. Would you have a warrant? There it is; the beggar's warrant is as good as I would wish. His warrant and testimonial to a beggar is a lame leg a cripple hand, a hungry belly, a bare back; that is good reason and cause for him. So say I Have ye a hungring and a longing desire after him? Or know ye that ye are unprepared that is a cripple both of legs and arms? That is a notable warrant to go to Christ. O! but says the soul, I have not a promise, I have not the covenant to take with me; and for want of faith, I have lost the promise.
Answ. The covenant is twice written, God has a copy, the principal is in his hand and mind, and ye have a copy in your heart: If ye have lost your double, what then? Says Christ, My copy is to the fore; I say the covenant stability is to the fore, it stands: Not in this, that ye shall evermore believe; there is no such covenant as that yourselves have made that covenant and not Christ. Let me see such a covenant as this, that all that doubt, and lay they are unprepared for Christ, should bide away, and never come to Christ, till they be properly prepared to come,and
