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…

Ans. The more sinful thou art in thine own sense and apprehension, the fitter thou art to close with Jesus Christ, and to apply the Merits of his Death unto thy self; for in that gracious invitation of Christ,¹ we find no other qualification put in, but a sense of sin, Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest; where the Parties invited to come unto Christ, are such as are sensible of, and thereupon groan under the weight and burden of their sins,² as the words in the Greek there properly signify; and Luke 5. 32. Christ professeth, He came not to call the righteous, but sinners; not such as were righteous in their own conceit, but such as were Sinners, in their own sense and apprehension, truly sensible of their sins; so that sense of sin is the only qualification requisite to an application of Jesus Christ.

Ans. The more sinful thou art in thine own sense and apprehension, the fitter thou art to close with Jesus Christ, and to apply the Merits of his Death unto thy self; for in that gracious invitation of Christ,¹ we find no other qualification put in, but a sense of sin, Come unto me all yee that labour and are heavie laden, and I will give you rest; where the Parties invited to come unto Christ, are such as are sensible of, and thereupon groan under the weight and burden of their sins,² as the words in the Greek there properly signifie; and Luke 5. 32. Christ professeth, He came not to call the righteous, but sinners; not such as were righteous in their owne conceit, but such as were Sinners, in their own sense and apprehension, truly sensible of their sins; so that sense of sin is the only qualification requisite to an application of Jesus Christ.

1. 1Mat. 11. 28