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up all the Father’s wrath at one draught; and nothing but ſalvation is left to thee. Thou ſayeſt thou canst not believe, thou canſt not repent: Fitter for Chriſt, if thou haſt nothing but ſin and miſery. Go to Chriſt with all thy impenitency and unbelief, to get faith and repentance from him; that is glorious. Tell Chriſt, “Lord, I have brought no righteouſneſs, no grace, to be
accepted in or juſtified by: I am come for I thine, and muſt have it.” We would be bringing to Chriſt, and. that muſt not be; not a penny of nature’s higheſt improvements will paſs in heaven. Grace will not ſtand with work , Titus iii. 5. Rom. xi. 6. That is a terrible point to nature, which cannot think of being ſtript of all, not having a rag of duty or righteouſneſs left to look at. Self-righteouſneſs and ſelf-ſufficiency are the darlings of nature, which ſhe preſerves as her life; that makes Chriſt ſeem ugly to nature, nature cannot define him; he is juſt directly oppoſite to all nature’s glorious intereſts. Let nature but make a goſpel, and it would make it quite contrary to Chriſt. It would be to the juſt, the innocent, the holy. &c. Chriſt made the goſpel for thee, that is, for needy ſinners, the ungodly,
