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Rh and thou wilt never agree. It is the hardest thing in the world to take Christ alone for righteousness; that is to acknowledge him Christ. Join any thing to him of thy own, and thou un-Christ him.

Whatever comes in when thou goest to God for acceptation, besides Christ, call it Antichrist, bid it begone; make Christ’s righteousness only triumphant: all, besides that is Babylon, which must fall, if Christ stand; and thou shalt rejoice in the day of the fall thereof, Isa. i. 10, 11, 12. Christ alone did tread the wine-press, and there was none with him, Isa. Ixiii. 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 ever thy faith tried with an hour of temptation, and thorough sight of sin? Was it ever put to grapple with Satan, and the wrath of God lying upon the conscience? When thou wast in the mouth of hell and the grave, then did God shew thee Christ, a ransom, a righteousness, &c. Then couldst thou say, Oh! I see enough of grace in Christ. Thou mayest say that which is the greatest word in the world, Thou believest. Untried faith is uncertain faith.

To believing, there must go a clear conviction of sin, and the meits of the blood