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Rh carnal) and in those sights to see the full vileness, yet littleness of sin, and to see all pardoned; in those sights to pray, hear, &c. seeing thy polluted self, and all thy weak performances accepted continually; in those sights to trample upon all thy self glories, righteousness and privileges, as abominable, and be found continually in the righteousness of Christ only rejoicing in the ruins of thy own righteousness, the spoiling of all thy own excellencies, that Christ alone, as Mediator, may be exalted in his throne, mourning over all thy duties (how glorious soever) that thou hast not performed in the sight and sense of Christ’s love. Without the blood of Christ on the conscience, all is but a dead service, Heb. xi.14.

That opinion of free-will, so cried up, will be easily confuted (as it is in the Scripture) in the heart, by those who have had any spiritual dealing with Jesus Christ, as to the application of his merits, and subjection to his righteousness. Christ is every way too magnificent a person for a poor nature to close withal, or to apprehend. Christ is so infinitely holy, nature durst never believe him to be snchsuch [sic], when it lies under full sight of sin. Christ is too high and glorious for nature so much as to touch. There must be a divine nature first put into the soul, to make it lay