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6. Observe the relation Christ stands in for the bringing you unto God, and lay hold on Christ that he may bring you to his Father. Jesus Christ, he intercedes with the Father, and doth as it were say, Father, here are a company of Rebels, justly fallen under thy displeasure, they deserve to be set at an eternal distance from thee, but I must needs have them pardoned, and received into thy bosom: make thine own terms, let Justice require never so great satisfaction, I will pay the utmost farthing, give them what Laws thou pleasest, I will undertake they shall observe them: Thus Christ acts with the Father in our behalf. And then he comes to the poor sinner, on the Fathers ⟨p. 40⟩behalf, and brings down the terms of reconciliation; He brings the sinners bond in his hand ready cancelled, the Covenant of peace ready sealed, and he persuades the sinner to come unto him, that they might have life. Go therefore unto Christ, and make him thy ladder to climb up unto God. Do not idly say thou canst not, but go on till thou meetest with a stop, that thou canst go no further. Wash thy hands from lazy security, and beg strength. It is an excellent problem for a Christian's study, to find out the over-pouring work of special grace, and the concurrent subserviency of mans will.

6. Observe the relation Christ stands in for the bringing you unto God, and lay hold on Christ that he may bring you to his Father. Jesus Christ, he intercedes with the Father, and doth as it were say, Father, here are a company of Rebels, justly fallen under thy displeasure, they deserve to be set at an eternal distance from thee, but I must needs have them pardoned, and received into thy bosom: make thine own terms, let Justice require never so great satisfaction, I will pay the utmost farthing, give them what Laws thou pleasest, I will undertake they shall observe them: Thus Christ acts with the Father in our behalf. And then he comes to the poor sinner, on the Fathers ⟨p. 40⟩behalf, and brings down the terms of reconciliation; He brings the sinners bond in his hand ready cancel'd, the Covenant of peace ready sealed, and he perswades the sinner to come unto him, that they might have life. Goe therefore unto Christ, and make him thy ladder to climb up unto God. Do not idly say thou canst not, but go on till thou meetest with a stop, that thou canst go no further. Wash thy hands from lazy security, and beg strength. It is an excellent problem for a Christian's study, to find out the over-powring work of special grace, and the concurrent subserviency of mans will.