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Rh hold on him, he lies so infinitely beyond the sight or reach of corrupt nature.

That Christ which natural free-will can apprehend, is but a natural Christ of man’s own making, not the Father’s Christ, nor Jesus the son of the living God, to whom noncnone [sic] can come without the Father’s drawing, John vi. 44, 46.

Finally, Search the Scriptures daily, as mines of gold, wherein the heart of Christ is laid. Watch against constitutional sins; see them in their vileness, and they shall never break out into act. Keep always an humble, empty, and broken frame of heart, sensible of any spiritual miscarriage observant of all inwards workings, and fit for the highest communications. Keep not guilt in the conscience, but apply the blood of Christ immediately. God chargeth sin and guilt upon thee, to make thee look to Christ the brazen serpent.

Judge not Christ’s love by providences, but by promises. Bless God for shaking off false foundations, and for any way whereby he keeps the soul awakened and looking after Christ; better sickness and temptations, than security and slightness.

A slighty spirit will turn a profane spirit, and will sin and pray too. Slightness is the bane of profession, if it be not rooted out of the heart, by constant and serious