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

2. You deny to Jesus Christ the honour of his Mediatorly Office; and of that great Sacrifice that he has offered up unto God: God had made Christ Mediator; he has committed the work of reconciliation unto Christ, and Jesus Christ has undertaken it: he was every way furnished for it, and has discharged it: and upon that account he is worthy to be depended upon: Faith in him is an honour due to him, Rev. 5.12. Worthy is the Lamb that was s•ain, &c. but by ⟨p. 267⟩your rejecting of him, you withhold that honour that belongs to him, you deny him the honour of having made satisfaction for sin: you should honour every one according to their desert, but you cast contempt upon his sacrifice as if it were not sufficient for you: you disparage him when you are afraid to venture upon him: you cast great reflections as if there were no such virtue in his death and righteousness as is pretended: there is a great deal of despising of Christ: you belie him; 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 whi•e 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 your selves 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.