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

the language of unbelief is, that his blood is not precious, that it does not cleanse from all sin; that his sacrifice is not pleasing unto God: that the gold he tenders will not make you rich, that the white Raiment he offers will not hide your shame; thus Jesus is slighted and undervalued by every unbeliever; they have low thoughts of Christ and carry accordingly. 3. You cast great contempt upon the wisdom of God in finding out such a way of Salvation: this is a way that God in infinite wisdom has contrived, collos. 2.3. there are in Christ all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge: but you do desert this way as an unsafe way: you dare not venture yourselves in this way: as if God when he undertook to find out a way to bring sinners unto glory missed it: and did not discover a way that will do: that commends this way of life to us that God himself contrived it, it is not the invention of man; a thing plotted and devised by any finite understanding, but the contrivance of God himself: but you by refusing of Christ carry as if this were a deceitful way, as if this way did not reach the needs of your soul: this way is chosen of God, and refused by you; as if you understood better than God what you needed. ⟨p. 268⟩4. You refuse wonderful love: to reject the kindness and love of God is an abuse of it: you ought with thankfulness to entertain Gods love: but by rejecting of Christ, you reject the greatest love that ever was revealed: was it not an act of wonderful love for God to send his Son to dye for us: what need had he to be at any such cost, if we had been all damned, what would he have lost by it? we may see in this, how deeply the heart of God was concerned in our salvation: he did that for us which would have been too much for us to have asked: we may well wonder that God would be willing to do such a thing for our salvation: it was a great thing for God to be willing that sinners should be saved: but for him to lay out himself so in order to it was much more, Joh. 3.16. so God loved the world: and again, it was a great act of love for God to make such a law of grace: that he that believeth shall be saved; that he should make so small a thing the condition of salvation, and say to us as the Prophet did to him, wash and be clean:

the language of unbelief is, that his blood is not precious, that it does not cleanse from all sin; that his sacrifice is not pleasing unto God: that the gold he tenders will not make you rich, that the white Raiment he offers will not hide your shame; thus Jesus is slighted and undervalued by every unbeliever; they have low thoughts of Christ and carry accordingly. 3. You cast great contempt upon the wisdom of God in finding out such a way of Salvation: this is a way that God in infinite wisdom has contrived, collos. 2.3. there are in Christ all the treasures of wisdom and knowledg: but you do desert this way as an unsafe way: you dare not venture yourselves in this way: as if God when he undertook to find out a way to bring sinners unto glory missed it: and did not discover a way that will do: that commends this way of life to us that God himself contrived it, it is not the invention of man; a thing plotted and devised by any finite understanding, but the contrivance of God himself: but you by refusing of Christ carry as if this were a deceitful way, as if this way did not reach the needs of your soul: this way is chosen of God, and refused by you; as if you understood better than God what you needed.