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2. The meditation of Christ's death would fire our hearts with love to Christ. What friend shall we love, if not him who died for us? His love to us made him cruel to himself. As Rebecca said to Jacob, Gen. 27. 13. Upon me, upon me be the curse. So said Christ, Upon me be the curse, that poor sinners may inherit the blessing.

3. Meditate on your Evidences for ¹Heaven. What have you to show for Heaven, if you should die this night? 1. Was your heart ever thoroughly convinced of sin? Did you ever see your self lost without Christ? Conviction is the first step to conversion, Joh. 8. 16. 2. Hath God ever made you willing to take Christ upon his own terms, Zach. 6. 13. He shall be a Priest upon his Throne: Are you as willing that Christ should ⟨p. 46⟩be upon the Throne of your heart to rule, as a Priest at the Altar to intercede. Are you willing to renounce those sins to which the bias of your heart doth naturally incline? Can you set those sins as Uriah in the forefront of the battle to be slain? Are you wiling to take Christ for better for worse; to take him with his Cross, and to avouch Christ in the worst of times. 3. Have you the indwelling-presence of the Spirit? If you have, what hath Gods Spirit done in you? Hath it made you of another spirit? meek, merciful, humble? Is it a transforming Spirit? Hath it lest the impress of its own holiness upon you? These are good evidences for Heaven. By these, as by a spiritual touch-stone, you may know whether you have grace or no. Beware of false Evidences. None are further from having the true Pearl, than they that content themselves with the counterfeit.