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Rh that is pitiful. Looking at them will but make thee proud, and looking at Christ’s grace will but make thee humble. By grace you are saved, Eph. ii. 5. In all thy temptations, be not discouraged, James i.

2. Those scourges may be, not to break thee, but to heave thee off thyself, on the rock Christ.

Thou mayest be brought low, even to the brink of hell, ready to tumble in; thou canst not be brought lower than the belly of hell; many saints have been there, even dowsed in hell; Yet, there thou mayest cry, there thou mayest look towards his holy temple, Jonah ii. 4. Into that temple none might enter but purified ones, and with an offering too, Acts xvi. 26. But now Christ is our temple, sacrifice, altar, and high priest, to whom none must come but sinners, and that without any offering, but his own blood once offered, Heb.vii. 27.

Remember all the patterns of grace that are in heaven. Thou thinkest, Oh! what a monument of grace wouldst thou be! There are many thousands as rich monuments as thou canst be. The greatest sinner did never pass the grace of Christ. Do not despair: Hope still; when the clouds are blackest, even then look toward Christ, the standing pillar of the Father’s love and