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belief, which is a ſetting up of guilt in the conſcience above Chriſt, an undervaluing the merits of Chriſt, accounting his blood an unholy, a common, and an unſatſifying thing.
Thou complainedeſt much of thyſelf. Doth thy ſin make thee look more at Chriſt, and leſs at thyſelf? That is right, otherwiſt complaining is but hypocriſy. To be looking at duties, graces, enlargements, when thou ſhouldeſt be looking at Chriſt, that is pitiful: Looking at them will but make thee proud, looking at Chriſt’s grace will make thee tumble: “By grace you are ſaved,” Eph. ii. 5. In all thy temptations, be not diſcouraged, James i. 2. Thoſe ſcourges may be, not to break thee, but, to heave thee off thyſelf, on the rock Chriſt.
Thou mayeſt be brought low, even to he brink of hell, ready to tumble in; thou canſt not be brought lower than the belly of hell, many ſaints have been there, even dowſed in hell, yet there thou mayeſt cry, there thou mayeſt look towards his holy temple, Jonah ii. 4. Into that temple none might enter but purified ones, and with an offering too, Acts xvi. 26. But now Chriſt is our temple, ſacrifice, altar and high prieſt,to whom none muſt come but ſinners, and that without any offer-
