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Rh and he is sworn to that office, Heb vii 20, 21. Put Christ upon it. If thou wilt do any thing thyself, as to satisfaction for sin, thou renounceth Christ the righteous, who was made sin for thee, 2 Cor. v. 22.

Satan may alledge, and corrupt Scripture, but he cannot answer Scripture. It is Christ’s word of mighty authority.— Christ foiled Satan with it, Matth. iv. 10. In all the Scripture there is not an ill word against a poor sinner, stripped of self-righteousness: Nay, it plainly points out this man to be the subject of the grace of the gospel, and none else. Believe but Christ’s willingness, and that will make thee willing. If thou findest thou canst not believe, remember it is Christ’s work to make thee believe; put him upon it, he works to will and to do of his good pleasure, Phil. ii. 13. Mourn for thy unbelief, which is a setting up of guilt in the conscience above Christ, an undervaluing the merits of Christ, accounting his blood an unholy, a common, and an unsatisfying thing.

Thou complainest much of thyself. Doth thy sin make thee look more at Christ, and less at thyself? That is right, otherwise complaining is but thy hypocrisy. To be looking at graces, duties, enlargements, when thou shouldest be looking at Christ,