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at Christ's infinite righteousness an merits, to see the full guilt and defilement of sin pardoned and washed away: i these views to pray, hear, &c. knowing thy polluted self, and all thy weak performances accepted continually: in these views to trample upon all self-righteousness, and to be found continually in the righteousness of Christ only, Philip. iii 9. that Christ alone, as Mediator, may be exalted in his throne, mourning over all thy duties which thou hast not performed in the sight and sense of Christ's love.'- Without the blood of Christ on the conscience all is dead services, Heb. ix. 14.
That Christ which the natural man can apprehend, but a Christ of his own making, not the Father's Christ, not Jesus, the Son of the living God, to whom none can come without the Father's drawing, John vi. 44, 45.
Search the Scriptures daily as mines of gold, wherein the heart of Christ is laid, John v. 39. Watch against constitutional sins, Psalm lix, 5.; see them in their vileness, and they shall never break out into act. Keep always an humble, empty, broken frame of heart, sensible of any spiritual miscarriage, observant of all inward workings, fit for the highest communications. Keep not guilt in the conscience, but apply the blood of Christ
