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mystery of Scripture; grace is the mystery of Christ. Believing is the most wonderful thing in the world. Put any thing of thine to it, and thou spoilest it, Christ will not esteem it believing. When thou believest, and comest to Christ, thou must leave behind thee thine own righteousness (O! that is hard!) all thy holiness, sanctification, duties, tears, humblings, &c. and bring nothing but thy sins, thy want and miseries, else Christ is not fit for thee nor thou for Christ. Christ will be a perfect Redeemer and Mediator, and thou must be an undone sinner, or Christ and thou will never agree. It is the hardest thing in the world to take Christ alone for righteousness; that is, to acknowledge him Christ.
Whatsoever comes in, when thou goest to God for acceptance, besides Christ, call it Antichrist; bid it be gone; make only Christ's righteousness triumphant. All besides that is Babylon, which must fall, if Christ stand, and thou shalt rejoice in the day of the fall thereof. Christ alone did tread the wine-press, and there was none with him, Isa. lxiii. 3. If thou join any thing to Christ, Christ will trample upon it in fury and anger, and stain his raiment with the blood thereof. Thou thinkest it easy, to believe-was thy faith ever tried with an hour of temptation, and
