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Rh the world, John i. 29. He went through all thy temptations, dejections, sorrows, desertions, and rejections, Mat.iv. 3,—26. Mark xv. 24. Luke xxii. 44. Matth. xxxvi. 38; and hath drunk the bitterest of the cup, and left thee the sweet; the condemnation is out, Christ drank up all the Father’s wrath at one draught; and nothing but salvation is left to thee. Thou sayest thou canst not believe, thou canst not repent: the fitter for Christ, if thou hast nothing but sin and misery. Go to Christ with all thy impenitency and unbelief, to get faith and repentance from him; that is glorious! Tell Christ, Lord, I have brought no righteousness, no grace to be accepted in, or justified by: I am come for thine, and must have it. We would be bringing to Christ, and that must not be; not a penny of nature’s highest improvements will pass in heaven. Grace will not stand with works, Tit. in. 5. Rom. xi. 6. That is a terrible point to nature! which cannot think of being stript of all, not having a rag of duty or righteousness left to look at. Self righteousness and self-sufficiency are the darlings of nature, which she preserves as her life; that makes Christ seem ugly to nature, nature cannot desire him; he is just directly opposite to all nature’s glorious interests. Let nature but make a gospel, and