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trample on all righteouſneſs or men and angels, ſo as to bring thee into acceptation with God. If thou halt ſeen Chriſt, thou wouldſt not do a duty without him for ten thouſand worlds, 1 Cor. ii 2. If thou ever faweſt Chriſt, thou faweſt him. a rock, higher than ſelf-righteouſneſs, ſatan and ſin,Pſ. Ixi. 2. and this rock doth follow thee, (1 Cor. x. 4.) with continual droppings of honey and grace out of that rock to ſatisfy thee, Pſalm Ixxxi. 16. Examine if ever thou haſt beheld Chriſt as “the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth,” John i. 14. Be ſure thou art come to Chriſt, that thou ſtandeſt upon the rock of ages, haſt anſwered to his call to thy ſoul, haſt cloſed with him for juſtification.
Men talk bravely of believing, whilſt whole and found, few know it. Grace the
myſtery of Chriſt. Believing is the moſt wonderful thing in the world. Put anything of thine own to it, and thou ſpoileſt it: Chriſt will not ſo much as look at it for believing. When thou believed and comeſt to Chriſt, thou muſt leave behind thee thy own rightouſneſs, and bring nothing but thy ſin, (O that is hard!); leave behind all thy holineſs, ſanctification, duties, humblings, &c.
