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greateſt pride and blaſphemy, Pſal. ciii. 11. Iſa. xl. 15. Hear what he faith, “I have found a ranſorm,” Job xxxlii. 24. “In him I am well pleaſed,” Matth. iii. 17. God will have nothing elſe; nothing elſe will do thee good, or ſatsfy confidence, but Chriſt, who ſatified the Father. God doth all upon the account of Chriſt. Thy deſterts are hell, wrath, rejection. Chriſt’s deſerts are life, pardon, and acceptation. He will not only ſhow thee the one, but he will give the other. It is Chriſt’s own glory and happineſs to pardon. Conſider whilſt Chriſt was on the earth, he was more among publicans and ſinners, than among. Scribes and Phariſees,
his profeſſed adverſaries: for they were right eous ones. It is not as then imagineſt, that his ſtate in glory makes him neglectful, ſcornful to poor ſinners: no, he hath the fame heart now in heaven, he is God, and changeth not: “He is the Lamb of God, that taketh away the ſins of the world,” John i. 29. he went through all thy temptations, dejections, ſorrows, deſertions, and rejections, Matth. iv. 3,—26. Mark xv. 24. Luke xxri. 44. Matth. xxxvi. 38; and hath drunk the bittereſt of the cup, and left thee the ſweet; the condemnation is out, Chriſt drank
