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2. I saw, that next to this I was to fly to Christ's Blood and Righteousness for Satisfaction and Peace. And here I saw three Things (1) That this was Faith, to fly to Christ's Death in Sense of my own Death▪ (2) That this Act was exceeding pleasing to God, even after all Sins: nay that it did pacify God, not because of the Merit of the Act, but because of the Worth of the Object, which is the Satisfaction of Christ's Death it apprehends, and that this doth please him, because of his good Pleasure and Purpose of Grace, and because he will be so pleased: (3) That this ⟨p. 33⟩Satisfaction alone thus apprehended, did perfectly and without any Holiness or Reformation of mine pacify and please the Father; or else I saw, that Christ's Death and Merits were imperfect and insufficient. And if so, If this alone pleased him, then the Condition of the Gospel was not thus, viz. If you believe in Christ's Death for Righteousness, Pacification and Life, and if you be sanctified and obey the Will of Christ, you shall then live, and God the Father will be pacified toward you by both these Means, but if you believe in Christ Jesus and his Death, by this only you shall please God for whatever Sin you have committed. I saw the Conscience of a Sinner could never be quieted until it did rest on this Testimony only, in seeing God pleased that Moment wherein it flies out of self to the Death of Christ— Now because I knew the Lord required Obedience and Sanctification, hence a Third Thing came clearly to mind.—

2. I saw, that next to this I was to fly to Christ's Blood and Righteousnes for Satisfaction and Peace. And here I saw three Things (1) That this was Faith, to fly to Christ's Death in Sense of my own Death▪ (2) That this Act was exceeding pleasing to God, even after all Sins: nay that it did pacify God, not because of the Merit of the Act, but because of the Worth of the Object, which is the Satisfaction of Christ's Death it apprehends, and that this doth please him, because of his good Pleasure and Purpose of Grace, and because he will be so pleased: (3) That this ⟨p. 33⟩Satisfaction alone thus apprehended, did perfectly and without any Holiness or Reformation of mine pacify and please the Father; or else I saw, that Christ's Death and Merits were imperfect and insufficient. And if so, If this alone pleas'd him, then the Condition of the Gospel was not thus, viz. If you believe in Christ's Death for Righteousness, Pacification and Life, and if you be sanctified and obey the Will of Christ, you shall then live, and God the Father will be pacified toward you by both these Means, but if you believe in Christ Jesus and his Death, by this only you shall please God for whatever Sin you have committed. I saw the Conscience of a Sinner could never be quieted until it did rest on this Testimony only, in seeing God pleased that Moment wherein it flies out of self to the Death of Christ— Now because I knew the Lord required Obedience and Sanctification, hence a Third Thing came clearly to mind.—