We carry about us always infirmities and corruptions. What use shall we make of them? Not to trust to our own righteousness, which is ‘as a defiled cloth’ (Isa. 64:6), but fly to Christ’s righteousness, which is the righteousness of the God-man, all being as dung and dross in regard of that.
Often think with thyself, What am I? a poor sinful creature, but I have a righteousness in Christ that answers all. I am weak in myself, but Christ is strong, and I am strong in him. I am foolish in myself, but I am wise in him. What I want in myself I have in him. He is mine, and his righteousness is mine, which is the righteousness of the God-man. Being clothed with this, I stand safe against conscience, hell, wrath, and whatsoever. Though I have daily experience of my sins, yet there is more righteousness in…
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