mances. In a word, be cafting up daily the Sum of your Unworthinefs and Vilenefs: And fee, what reasonable Cause you have to add to the Account, as you reflect upon your past, and even prefent, State and Conduct. It is a growing Discovery of the Sicknefs of your Soul, that must keep you in a more lively State and Defire after the Relief which Christ hath to give you.

2. Be more fenfible of your Infufficiency. Guard against Self-dependence, a leaning to your own Righteoufnefs or Strength. Labor to discover, with ftronger Evidence, the Unavailableness of your prefent and future good Conduct, to have justified you with GOD; and how, if left to yourself, you shall not be able to will or do contrary to the Will of the Flesh, but muft quickly make Shipwreck of Faith and a good Confcience. The Adverfary will be affailing you upon this Side, and endeavouring to puff you up with highminded Conceits, as though you had already attained. Your Bufinefs must be to counterplot his Devices, by fitting down in the lowest Room, more experimentally perfuaded that without Chrift you can do nothing.

3. ENDEAVOUR to gain more enlarged Views of the Sufficiency and Fulness of Christ. Get yourself more acquainted with. his Dignity, as the only Begotten of the Father; his Fitness, the Word made Flesh; his majestic

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Loveliness, full of Grace and Truth (z). Be more acquainted with his Condefcenfions, his Victories and Triumphs. Confider him frequently as gone up to his Glory, invested with all Power both in Heaven and Earth (a), the Covenant-Head of his Church; a Lord mighty to defend, and gracious to govern; an Advocate available to plead; a great and merciful High Prieft to bless; a Forerunner, a Surety. Confider him again and again, as the Judge of the Dead and the Living; and confirm upon your Heart how he will affuredly come again, with what Power, with what Glory, with what Vengeance, with what Deliverance. Be more acquainted with his eternal Kingdom, his Throne which is for-ever and ever. Labor, in a word, to make a full Discovery, how mighty he is to fave you. And,

4. SEEK, that your Perfuafion of his Love and Willingness, do grow in Proportion with the Affurance you have of his. Power. Review the Gofpel continually as a Difpenfation of Mercy and Grace; fearch-. ing deeper into the Depths of thefe Expreffions. Confider, how Love was the only Cause of what our Redeemer hath done for us; how Love only constrained him, how freely he was fent, how freely he came into

(z) John i. 14.

(a) Matt. xxviii. 18.

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the World; how he gave his Life a Ransom for many (b). Endeavour not only that you may have no Sufpicion of his Love, but that you may have the utmost Confidence in it: Verily believing there is nothing he would take fo ill at your Hands as to suspect his Kindness, after the Proofs he hath given and the Affurances he hath made you, of his Love.

IN this Way, feeling your Wants, and fenfible of your Helpleffnefs, affured of the Redeemer's Power, and perfuaded of his Love; you fhall find the Fellowship, fo happily for you, commenced between him and your Soul, to be enlarged, to the abundant Establishment of your Ways and your Peace, and to the Honor and Praise of his faving Grace.

Secondly, AND to quicken you in all these Things; alfo, Be fenfible of the Bleffings that attend you, in this Intercourse and Fellowship with the Son of GOD.

AND these are no lefs, than a Part in all the Promifes of God which in Christ Jefus are yea and Amen (c); and all of them yours, feeing you are Christ's, not only by Purchase, but alfo by that vital Surrender you have made of your whole Self unto him,-Forgiveness of Sins-The Adoption of a Child—A new and Child-like Difpofition of Soul_The (6) Matt. xx. 28. (c) 2 Cor. i. 20.

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daily Care of the Redeemer-A delightful Fellowship with the Faithful-A thankful Enjoyment of God'sCreatures-And aHope full of Immortality-are the Bleffings which you enjoy in this new State to which you are admitted.

1. Forgiveness of Sins. I write to you. little Children, faith the beloved Difciple, because your Sins are forgiven you for his Name's Sake (d). Hear, thou little Child, that hast found thyfelf hopeless and helpless as an Infant, that art come to the everlasting Father, and haft caft all thy Cares upon him; thy Sins are forgiven thee for his Name's Sake. Say they are many, great, aggravated; Sins of a fcarlet Die, and red as Crimson; yet they are purged away for his Name's Sake. As a thick Cloud they hung black and threatning over thee, and kept from thee the Light of Heaven: But now they are blotted out, as t Cloud which the Wind hath carried away, and thy GOD remembreth them not, as if they were caft into the Depths of the Sea. For there is no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jefus, who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit (e). To thee there is no Condemnation, for thou walkeft after the Spirit, thou art fpiritually-minded, led by the Spirit, No Condemnation, by Reafon of thy paft Sins and present Infirmities; the Wrath of (d) John ii. 12. (e) Rom. viii. 1.

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GOD removed, the Accufations of Satan unheard, the Sentence of Death remitted. Bleffed Man, whofe Tranfgreffion is forgiven, whofe Sin is covered! Bleffed Man, unto whom the Lord imputeth not Iniquity (f)! O join the Song of the Prophet, and fay, Sing, O ye Heavens; for the Lord hath done it: Shout, ye lower Parts of the Earth: break forth into finging, ye Mountains: O Foreft, and every Tree therein: For the Lord hath redeemed Jacob, and glorified himself in Ifrael (g).

2. The Adoption of a Child. Thou, who wert fometimes far off, art made nigh by the Blood of Jefus, become a Child of God by Faith in Jefus Chrift; no longer now a Stranger and a Foreigner, but a Fellow-Citizen with the Saints, and of the Houshold of God (b). For, as many as received him, to them gave he Power to become the Sons of God (i). And thou doft receive him, as the Chrift the Son of the living God; cordially receive him, as thy Prince and Savior. Know then, GOD condefcends to be thy Father. Stagger not at fo great a Thing, as though it were too high for thee: It is Jefus gives thee this glorious Power and Privilege. Himfelf faith, Go to my Bre thren, and fay unto them, I afcend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God (k): You cannot deny the Relation,

(f) Pfal. xxxii. z..!! (g) Ifa. xliv. 23. (b) Eph. ii. 19. (i) John i. 12, (k) John xx. 17. without 690