The safety of appearing at the day of judgement, in the righteousness of Christ

4. Prizing of Jesus Christ: the Believer makes great reckoning of Christ, 1 Pet. 2.7. he believes all those glorious characters that God gives of Christ, and ⟨p. 236⟩so he prizes him: makes great account of the blood and righteousness of Christ, and of all the Offices of Christ: he looks upon his own righteousness as nothing in comparison of the righteousness of Christ: he reckons himself poor notwithstanding any thing of his own: he counts himself undone without Christ: but he prizes Christ, looks on him as the Author of eternal salvation, as the procurer and bestower of all good: he has all his expectations from him: all his hopes are built on him: he has a great esteem of Christ, he looks for no good but only from him: his hopes of outward mercies, of light and strength, and deliverance from temptation, of pardon and communion with God, and eternal life are all derived from him: he looks upon Christ as the stay and staff of his life: he prizes him as having his whole dependence upon him: he looks upon himself miserable and undone without him: he counts an interest in Christ more worth than all the Gold of Ophir: he esteems the blood of Christ of sufficient virtue to purge away every sin, and the obedience of Christ sufficient to procure all manner of good for him: he sees peace in him, and victory in him, and life in him: as a man prizes bread because that preserves life: as a sick man prizes a skilful Physician, as a man prizes his money because that is virtually all things here: 'tis meat, and drink, and clothes, &c. Money answers all things, so does the Believer prize Christ, he sees all things virtually in him: he sees he has perpetual need of him: he prizes him as the only way of happiness.

4. Prizing of Jesus Christ: the Believer makes great reckoning of Christ, 1 Pet. 2.7. he believes all those glorious characters that God gives of Christ, and ⟨p. 236⟩so he prizes him: makes great account of the blood and righteousness of Chrst, and of all the Offices of Christ: he looks upon his own righteousness as nothing in comparison of the righteousness of Christ: he reckons himself poor notwithstanding any thing of his own: he counts himself undone without Christ: but he prizes Christ, looks on him as the Author of eternal salvation, as the procurer and bestower of all good: he has all his expectations from him: all his hopes are built on him: he has a great esteem of Christ, he looks for no good but only from him: his hopes of outward mercies, of light and strength, and deliverance from temptation, of pardon and communion with God, and eternal life are all derived from him: he looks upon Christ as the stay and staff of his life: he prizes him as having his whole dependance upon him: he looks upon himself miserable and undone without him: he counts an interest in Christ more worth than all the Gold of Ophir: he esteems the blood of Christ of sufficient vertue to purge away every sin, and the obedience of Christ sufficient to procure all manner of good for him: he sees peace in him, and victory in him, and life in him: as a man prizes bread because that preserves life: as a sick man prizes a skilful Physitian, as a man prizes his money because that is vertually all things here: 'tis meat, and drink, and clothes, &c. Money answers all things, so does the Believer prize Christ, he sees all things vertually in him: he sees he has perpetual need of him: he prizes him as the only way of happiness.