238 The Crucifying of the world, it is in him that you muff glory ,.and nót in your felves, ï. Confider, if yet he fhoulddeal with yqu according toyour detervings, the remnantsof your fin would bring you todam- nation. If yet he did not hide your nakednefs, and by his intercef- fion procure youa daily pardon you would everyday be your owndifaroyers ", nayyou would not be an hour longer outof hell. If he did not bring you before his Father , you could have no a cefs to him in anyof your addreffes. Your facrifices wouldire call; back into your faces as dung, if the merit of his facrifice made them not accepted. So that by this youmay fee inwhom you muff ftill glory. 6. Now you have a little grace, you cannotk.çep it of your felves : Now youare made alive , you cannot keep your felves alive. If you be not preferved by him that did reviveyou , and .kept by his mighty power to falvation, and if he benot the finifh- er of your faith, who was theauthor of it ? how fpeeddy how certainly would you proveapof1ates, andundo all that bath been fo long a doing ? If then you fandnot on your own legs but are carryed in his arms,you may fee in whom it is that you fhould glory. , 7. "Nay more, if you were left to your felves, butto refift one temptation, it would bearyou down. Younow think ofma- ny fins with an holy fcorn : But the tilthyeft of thofe fins would become yourpleafure, if you were forfaken byChrift. You now look on whoredom, andgluttony,' and.drunkennefs, and ambiti- on, as dirt and dung : But if Chrift should forfake you , this dung would you,feed upon and as dogs you would ear up the filthyeft vomit that ever youd4difgorge. your felves of, and as fwine you wouldchoofe that mire for your bed, nd ref in it till hell awaked you. By this then you may perceive in whom you fhould glory. 8. Moreover without Chril$ you cannot make ufe of the Grace that he bath given you. The life and comfort of`your grace is in the exercife. To draw forth your Faith "arid Love , andJóy into exercife, is the.may to edcreafe them ; and to fbew you experimentally their nature, truth, and worth, and to attain their ends. And without Chìif?, `you will never do this. You may lieas if youwere dead, and'dry, and withered, if he do but with-
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