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COMING TO CHRIST.
QUESTION. How must I be qualified before I shall dare to believe in
Christ?
ANSWER. Come, sensible of thy sins and of the wrath of God due unto
them, for thus thou art bid to come Matt. 11:28.
QUESTION. Did ever any come thus to Christ?
ANSWER. David came thus, Paul and the jailer came thus; also
Christ's murderers came thus. Psa. 51:1-3; Acts 9:6; 16:30, 31;
2:37.
QUESTION. But doth it not seem most reasonable that we should first
mend and be good?
ANSWER. The whole have no need of the physician, but those that are
sick; Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to
repentance.
QUESTION. But is it not the best way, if one can, to mend first?
ANSWER. This is just as if a sick man should say, "Is it not best
for me to be well before I go to the physician?" or as if a wounded
man should say, "When I am cured I will lay on the plaster."
QUESTION. But when a poor creature sees its vileness, it is afraid
to come to Christ, is it not?
ANSWER. Yes, but without ground; for he has said, "Say to them that
are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not;" and "to this man will
I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and
trembleth at my word." Isa. 35:4; 66:2.
QUESTION. What encouragement can be given us thus to come?
ANSWER.
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