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2. The Lord Jesus must be proposed as an all-sufficient and compassionate Saviour, who invites the weary and heavy-laden to come to him for Rest. This is the order of the Spirit's Operations, first to convince of Sin, then of Righteousness. 'Tis true, there are diversities of Workings; the Spirit instructs and terrifies Sinners by his Office of Bondage, but not always in the same manner and degrees: but the Soul is so humbled ⟨p. 308⟩by the sight of Sin, and impendent Wrath, as it sees and feels the necessity of a Saviour, and is willing to comply with the Terms of Mercy offered in the Gospel. The whole need not a Physician, but those who are sick. A condemned Man values a Sheet of Paper wherein his Pardon is written and sealed, more than the Conveyance of a rich Estate. One near drowning values a Cord thrown out for his Rescue, more than a Crown. Thus when the Guilty are deeply sensible they have lost the Favour of God, and cannot fly from his Power, and there is but a step between them and Eternal Death, then a Saviour will be infinitely precious, and they will entirely close with him. Now the Gospel represents the Son of God incarnate.

2. The Lord Jesus must be propos'd as an all-sufficient and compassionate Saviour, who invites the weary and heavy-laden to come to him for Rest. This is the order of the Spirit's Operations, first to convince of Sin, then of Righteousness. 'Tis true, there are diversities of Workings; the Spirit instructs and terrifies Sinners by his Office of Bondage, but not always in the same manner and degrees: but the Soul is so humbled ⟨p. 308⟩by the sight of Sin, and impendent Wrath, as it sees and feels the necessity of a Saviour, and is willing to comply with the Terms of Mercy offered in the Gospel. The whole need not a Physician, but those who are sick. A condemned Man values a Sheet of Paper wherein his Pardon is written and sealed, more than the Conveyance of a rich Estate. One near drowning values a Cord thrown out for his Rescue, more than a Crown. Thus when the Guilty are deeply sensible they have lost the Favour of God, and cannot fly from his Power, and there is but a step between them and Eternal Death, then a Saviour will be infinitely precious, and they will entirely close with him. Now the Gospel represents the Son of God incarnate.