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16 the Lord ſhall appear terrible out of his holy Place, Fire ſhall conſume that as Hay and Stubble. This will be found Religion, only to bottom all upon the everlaſting Mountains of God's Love and Grace in Chriſt; to live continually in the sight of Chriſt's infinite Righteouſneſs and Merits (they are Sanctifying, without them the Heart is carnal) and in thoſe Sights to ſee the full Vileneſs, yet Littleneſs of Sin, and to ſee all pardoned; in thoſe Sights to pray, hear, &c. ſeeing thy polluted Self, and all thy weak Performances accepted continually; in thoſe Sights to trample upon all thy Self-glories, Righteouſneſs, Privileges, as abominable, and be found continually in the Righteouſneſs of Christ only, rejoicing in the Ruins of thy own Righteouſneſs, the ſpoiling of all thy own Excellencies, that Chriſt alone, as Mediator, may be exalted in his Throne, mourning over all thy Duties (how glorious foever) that thou haſt not performed in the Sight and Senſe of Chriſt's Love; without the Blood of Chriſt on the Conſcience all is dead Service, Heb. 9. 14.

That Opinion of Free-will (ſo cried up) will be eaſily confuted (as it is by Scripture) in the Heart, who hath had any ſpiritual dealing with Jeſus Chriſt, as to the Application of his Merits, and Subjection to his Righteouſneſs. Chriſt is every way too magnificent a Perſon for poor Nature to cloſe withal, or to apprehend. Chriſt is ſo infinitely holy, Nature durſt never look at him; ſo infinitely good, Nature can never believe him to be ſuch, when it lies under full Sight of Sin. Chriſt is too high and glorious for Nature ſo much as to touch. There muſt be a divine Nature firſt put into the Soul, to make it lay hold on him, he lies ſo infinitely beyond the Sight or Reach of Nature.

That Chriſt that natural Free-will can apprehend, is but a natural Chriſt of a Man's own making, not the Father's Chriſt, not Jeſus the Son of the living God, to whom none can come without the Father's drawing