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Rh have ſlight low Prizings of Chriſt's Blood and Merits.

Deſpairing Sinner! Thou lookeſt on thy Right-hand and on thy left, ſaying, Who will ſhew us any good? Thou art tumbling over all thy Duties and Profeſſions to patch up a Righteouſneſs to ſave thee. Look at Chriſt now, look to him and be ſaved, all the Ends of the Earth, Iſa. 45. 22. There is none elſe. He is a Saviour, and there is none beſides him, v. 21. Look any where elſe, and thou art undone. God will look at nothing but Chriſt, and thou muſt look at nothing elſe. Chriſt is lifted up on high (as the brazen Serpent in the Wilderneſs) that Sinners at the Ends of the Earth, the greateſt Diſtance, may ſee him, and look towards him. The leaſt Sight of him will be ſaving, the leaſt Touch healing to thee; and God intends thou shouldeſt look on him, for he hath ſet him upon a high Throne of Glory, in the open View of all poor Sinners. Thou haſt infinite Reaſon to look on him, no Reaſon at all to look off him. For he is meek and lowly of Heart, Matth. 11. 29. He will do that himſelf which he requires of his Creatures, viz. bear with Infirmities, Rom. 15. 1. not pleaſing himſelf, not ſtanding upon Points of Law, v. 2. He will reſtore with the Spirit of Meekneſs, Gal. 6. 1. and bear thy Burthens, v. 2. He will forgive, not only till ſeven times, but ſeventy times ſeven, Matth. 18. 21, 22. It put the Faith of the Apoſtle to to believe this, Luke 17. 4, 5. becauſe we are hard to forgive, we think Chriſt is hard.

We ſee Sin great, we think Chriſt doth ſo, and measure infinite Love with our Line, infinite Merits with our Sins, which is the greateſt Pride and Blaſphemy, Pſal. 103. 11, 12. Iſa. 40. 15. Hear what he ſaith, I have found a Ranſom, Job 33. 24. In Him I am well pleaſed, Matth. 3. 17. God will have nothing elſe; nothing elſe will do thee good, or ſatisfy Conſcience, but Chriſt who ſatisfied the Father. God doth upon the Account of Chriſt. Thy Deſerts are Hell, Wrath, Rejection. Chriſt's Deſerts are Life, Pardon, and