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( 6 ) and bring nothing but thy. wants and miſeries, elſe Chriſt in not fit for thee, nor thou for Chriſt. Chriſt will be a pure Redeemer and Mediator, and thou must be an undone firmer, or Chriſt 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-Chriſts him.

Whatever comes in when thou goeſt to God for acceptation, (beſides Chriſt) call it Antichriſt; bid it be gone: make only Chriſt's righteouſneſs 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. Chriſt alone did “tread the winepreſs, and there was none with him,” Iſa. Ixiii. 3. If thou join any thing to Chriſt, he will trample upon it with 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 temptations, and a thorough fight of him? 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 ſhow thee Chriſt a ranſom