To those who do believe in Christ aright, and lay him for their
foundation: see that you are laborers after a more experimental
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ; fly more to his birth, death,
blood, resurrection, ascension, and intercession, and fetch
refreshing for your souls more and more from him without, through
the operation of his Spirit within; and though the fruits of the
Spirit be excellent, and to be owned where they are found, yet have
a care you take not away the glory of the blood of Christ shed on
the cross without the gates of Jerusalem, and give it them; which
you will do, if you content yourselves and satisfy your consciences
with this--that you find the fruits of the Spirit within you--and do
not go for peace and consolation of conscience to the blood of Jesus
shed on the cross.
Therefore learn of the saints, or rather of the Spirit, who teaches
to sing this song, "Thou art worthy to take the book and to open the
seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by
thy blood." Rev. 5: 9.
And as for you that cannot yet well endure to think that you should
be justified by the blood of the Son of Mary shed on the cross
without the gate, I say to you, "Kiss the Son, lest he he angry and
ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little:
blessed are all they that put their trust in him.
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