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8 (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. 1. 10, 11, 12. Chriſt alone did tread the Wine-preſs, and there was none with him, Iſa. 63. 3. If thou join any Thing to Chriſt, Chriſt will trample upon it in 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 Temptation, and a thorough ſight of Sin? 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 ſhew thee Chriſt a Ranſom, a Righteouſneſs, &c. Then couldſt thou ſay, O! I ſee Grace enough in Chriſt; thou mayſt ſay that which is the biggeſt Word in the World, Thou Believeſt. Untried Faith is uncertain Faith.

To believing there muſt go a clear Conviction of Sin, and the Merits of the Blood of Chriſt, and of Chriſt's Willingneſs to ſave upon this Conſideration meerly, That thou art a Sinner; Things all harder than to make a World. All the Power in Nature cannot get up ſo high in a Storm of Sin and Guilt, really to believe there is any Grace, any Willingneſs in Christ to ſave. When Satan chargeth Sin upon the Conſcience, then for the Soul to charge it upon Chriſt, that is Goſpel-like.— That is to make him Chriſt, he ſerves for that Uſe. To accept Chriſt's Righteouſneſs alone, his Blood alone for Salvation, that is the Sum of the Goſpel. When the Soul in all Duties and Diſtreſſes, can ſay, Nothing but Chriſt, Chriſt alone, for Righteouſneſs, Juſtification, Redemption, 1 Cor. 1. 30. not Humblings, not Duties, not Graces, &c. that Soul hath got above the reach of the Billows.

All Temptations, Satan's Advantages, our Complainings, are laid in Self-Righteouſneſs, and Self-Excellency: God purſueth theſe, by ſetting Satan upon thee (as Laban