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Rh When guilt is raised up, take heed of getting it allayed any way but by Christ’s blood, that will tend to hardening, make Christ thy peace, Eph. ii. 14, not thy duties, thy tears, &c. Christ thy righteousness, not thy graces &c. Thou mayest destroy Christ by duties, as well as by sins. Look at Christ, and do as much as thou wilt. Stand with all thy weight upon Christ’s righteousness; take heed of having one foot on thy own righteousness; and another on Christ’s. Till Christ come and sit on high upon a throne of grace in the conscience, there is nothing but guilt, terrors, secret suspicions, the soul hanging between hope and fear, which is an ungospel like state.

He that fears to see sin’s utmost vileness, the utmost hell of his own heart, he suspects the merits of Christ. Be thou never such a great sinner, 1 John ii. 3, try Christ, to make him the advocate, and thou shalt find him Jesus Christ the righteous. In all doubtings, fears, storms of conscience, look at Christ continually, do not argue it with Satan, he desires no better; bid him go to Christ, and he will answer him. It is his office to be our advocate, 1 John ii.1, his office to answer law as our surety, Heb. vii. 22, his office to answer justice as our Mediator, Gal. iii. 29. 1. Tim. ii. 5,