Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…

Obj. I would willingly apply the Merits of Christs Death and Passion unto my self, but oh, I am conscious of so much unworthiness, seeing nothing in my self why the Merits of Christs death should belong unto me, that I cannot, yea I dare not apply them to my self.

Ans. 1. It is good to be conscious to thy self of thine own unworthiness, but not so as to be kept thereby from applying of Christ, and the Merits of his Death and Passion unto thy souls comfort. And truly, if thou wouldst but consider, that God respecteth his own goodness, and not ours, in the offering of his Son, and that his grace is every way most free, this conceit of thine unworthiness can be no just plea against the applying of Christ, with the benefits of his Death and Passion unto thine own souls comfort; it should rather be an encouragement unto thee, because the more ⟨p. 69⟩unworthy thou art in thine own sight and sense, the more worthy thou art in the account of Christ. The greatest worthiness that any Christian can here attain unto is, to be sensible of his own unworthiness.

Ans. 1. It is good to be conscious to thy self of thine own unworthiness, but not so as to bee kept thereby from applying of Christ, and the Merits of his Death and Passion unto thy souls comfort. And truly, if thou wouldst but consider, that God respecteth his own goodness, and not ours, in the offering of his Son, and that his grace is everyway most free, this conceit of thine unworthiness can be no just plea against the applying of Christ, with the benefits of his Death and Passion unto thine own souls comfort; it should rather be an incouragement unto thee, because the more ⟨p. 69⟩unworthy thou art in thine own sight and sense, the more worthy thou art in the account of Christ. The greatest worthiness that any Christian can here attain unto is, to be sensible of his own unworthiness.