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14 and Acceptation. He will not only ſhew thee the one, but he will give thee the other. It's Chriſt's own Glory and Happineſs to pardon. Conſider, whilſt Chriſt was upon the Earth, he was more among Publicans and Sinners than among Scribes and Phariſees, his profeſſed Adverſaries; for they were righteous ones. It is not as thou imagineſt, that his State in Glory makes him neglectful, ſcornful to poor Sinners; no, he hath the ſame Heart now in Heaven, he is God, and changeth not: He is the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the world, John 1. 29. He went thro' all thy Temptations, Dejections, Sorrows, Deſertions, Rejections, Matth. 4. 3.—12. and 26. Mark 15. 24. Luke 22. 44. Matth. 26. 38. And hath drunk the bittereſt of the Cup, and left thee the ſweet; the Condemnation is out, Chriſt drunk up all the Father's Wrath at one Draught; and nothing but Salvation is left for thee. Thou ſayſt thou canſt not believe, thou canſt not repent. Fitter for Chriſt if thou haſt nothing but Sin and Miſery. Go to Christ with all thy Impenitency and Unbelief, to get Faith and Repentance for him; that is glorious. Tell Chriſt, Lord, I have brought no Righteouſneſs, no Grace to be accepted in or juſtified by; I am come for thine and muſt have it. We would be bringing to Chriſt and that muſt not be; not a Penny of Nature's higheſt Improvements will paſs in Heaven. Grace will not ſtand with Works, Tit. 3. 5. Rom. 11. 6. That is a terrible Point to Nature, which cannot think of being ſtript of all, not having a Rag of Duty or Righteouſneſs left to look at. Self-righteouſneſs, Self-ſufficiency, are the Darlings of Nature, which ſhe preſerves as her Life; that makes Chriſt ſeem ugly to Nature, Nature can not deſire him; he is juſt directly oppoſite to all Nature's glorious Intereſts. Let Nature but make a Goſpel, and it will make it quite contrary to Chriſt. It would be to the Juſt, the Innocent, the Holy, &c. Chriſt made the Goſpel for thee, that is, for needy Sinners, the Ungodly, the Unrighteous, the Accurſed. Nature cannot