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10 Sinner, ſtript 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's Chriſt's Work to make thee believe; put him upon it, he works to will and do of his good Pleaſure, Phil. 2. 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 unſatisfying Thing.

Thou complaineſt much of thyſelf. Doth thy Sin make thee look more at Chrift; leſs at thyſelf? That is right, elſe Complaining is but Hypocriſy. To be looking at Duties, Graces, Enlargements, when thou ſhouldſt be looking at Chriſt, that's pitiful; Looking at them will but make thee proud, looking at Chriſt's Grace will make thee humble. By Grace you are ſaved, Epheſ. 2. 5. In all thy Temptations be not diſcouraged, James 1. 2. Thoſe Surges may be (not to break thee, but) to heave thee off thyſelf on the Rock Chriſt.

Thou may be brought low, even to the Brink of Hell, ready to tumble in; thou canſt not be brought lower than the Belly of Hell (many Saints have been there even dowſed in Hell) yet there thou mayſt cry, there thou mayſt look towards the holy Temple, Jonas 2. 4. Into that Temple none might enter but purified ones, and with an Offering too, Acts 21. 26. But now Chriſt is our Temple, Sacrifice, Altar, High-Prieſt, to whom none muſt come but Sinners, and that without any Offering, but his own Blood once offered. Heb. 7. 27.

Remember all the Patterns of Grace that are in Heaven. Thou thinkeſt, Oh, what a Monument of Grace wouldſt thou be! There are many Thouſands as rich Monuments as thou canſt be. The greateſt Sinner did never paſs the Grace of Chriſt. Do not deſpair