Religion & morality > Choice drop of honey from the rock, Christ, or A word of advice to saints and sinners

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Conuder the gjeateit lins may be hid under the
fj gltaLeft. duties. See the wound that fin hath made in
3 thy loul, be perfefbly cured by the blood of Chrift ;
a not Ikmned o«er with duties, humhlings, enlargements*
Apply what thou wilt bcfides the betides of Chrift, it
>i will poilon (he fore. Thou wilt find that lin was
n never mortified truly ; nothing can kill it but the
<j beholding thrift’s rightecufnefs.
Nature can afford no balfam fit for the cure of a
fl foul. Healing from duty and not from Chrift, is the
fj U’^ft defperate dileafc. Poor ragged nature, with all
fiifs highett improvements, can never fpin a garment
tfiue enough to cover the fjtiPs nakednefs. Nothing is
■ fit for that ufe but Chrift’j pcrfeft righteoufnels.
Whatever is of nature’s putting on, Satan . will
come and plunder it, and leave the foul naked
Ijaud upon to the wrath of God. All that nature can
Udo will never make up the leaft dram of grace that
).caa mortify fin, or look Chrift in the face one day.
I ho art a profeflTor, and goeft on hearing, praying,
mnd receiving, yet miferable mayeft thou be. Look
.about thee ; didit thou ever fee Chrift to this day in
jdiftinclion from all other excellencies and righteouf-
neii in the world, and all of them falling before the
Ijinajefty of his love and grace ?
If thou haft leen Chrift truly, thou haft feen pure
Hgrace, pure righteoufnels, far exceeding all fin and
ta.ftlery. It thou halt feen Chrift, thou wouldft net do
ra duty without him for ten thouland worlds. If ever
fjtlx.u fuw Chrift, thou fawjeft him a Reck higher than
: a'1 01 ■!‘1 • 1-us rock doth follow thee, and
here will be a continual dropping of honey and grace
at of that rock to luisfy tnee. Examine if ever
i-nou halt be,tdd Chrift as the only beg.u-ten of th¬
at!,er, lull of grace and tru'n. Hc fure if thou art
ome to Chrift, that thou handed upon the Rock of
j^cs ha^anLvered his call to thy foul, halt cioUd
|v4Juui .or juitiiication.