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Rh Chr. and how was he revealed unto you?

Hope. I did not see him with our bodily eyes, but with the eyes of mine understanding (Eph. i. 18, 19); and thus it was: One day I was very sad—I think sadder than at any one time in my life; and this sadness was through a fresh sight of the greatness and vileness of my sins. And as I was then looking for nothing but hell, and the everlasting damnation of my soul, suddenly, as I thought, I saw the Lord Jesus looking; down from heaven upon me, and saying, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." (Acts xvi. 30, 31.)

But I replied, Lord, I am a great, a very great sinner, And he answered, "My grace is sufficient for thee." Then I said, But, Lord, what is believing? And then I saw from that saying, "He that cometh to me shall never hunger, and he that believeth on me shall never thirst" (John vi. 35), that believing and coming was all one; and that he that came—that is, that ran out in his heart and affections after salvation by Christ—he indeed believed in Christ. Then the water stood in mine eyes, and I asked further, But, Lord, may such a great sinner as I am be indeed accepted of thee, and be saved by thee? And I heard him say, "And him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out." (John vi. 37.) Then I said, But how, Lord, must I consider of thee in my coming to thee, that my faith may be placed aright upon thee? Then he said, "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners: he is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believes: he died for our sins, and rose again for our justification: he loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood: he is mediator betwixt God and us: he ever liveth to make intercession for us." (1 Tim. i. 15. Rom. X. 4. Heb. vii. 24, 25.) From all which. I gathered that I must look for righteousness in his person, and for satisfaction for my sins by his blood; that What he did in obedience to his Father's law, and in submitting to the