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didst thou see this when the burden of sin and the wrath of God lay heavy on thy conscience? that is grace the greatness of Christ's merits is not known but to a poor soul in great distress. Slight convictions will have but a slight low esteem of Christ's blood and merits.
We apprehend sin too great to be pardoned.-We think Christ doth so, and measure infinite love with our line, infinite merits with our sins, which is the greatest pride and blasphemy, Psalm ciii. 11. 22. Isa. x!. 15. Hear what he saith, 'I have found a ransom,' Job xxxiii. 24. 'In him I am well pleased,' Matth. iii. 17. God will have nothing else. Nothing else will do thee good, or satisfy conscience, but Christ, who satisfied the Father.- God doth all upon the account of Christ. Thy deserts are rejection, wrath, hell.- Christ's deserts are acceptance, pardon, life. He will not only shew thee the one, but he will give thee the other. It is Christ's own glory and happiness to pardon.
Consider-whilst Christ was upon the earth, he was more among publicans and sinners than Scribes and Pharisees, his professed adversaries, for they were righteous ones. It is not as thou imaginest, that his state in glory makes him neglectful, scornful to poor sinners. No, He hath the same heart now in heaver, He is God,
