If it be of grace then it is no more of works; why is my foolish heart then continually going about to rob God of the glory of his grace? it is of my pride and unbelief; my unbelief that staggers at the promise, and will not suffer me to think God can be glorified more in the exercise of sovereign grace in the Redeemer, than in the execution of deserved vengeance on me a sinner. My pride, that fain would sacrifice to its own drag, by offering something of my own to plead for my acceptance. Lord, give me clearer views of the riches of thy grace, that my unbelief may be confounded; and deeper discoveries of the utter wretchedness of all I am and do, that my pride may be abased: and thus may I thankfully embrace this free salvation, and be content to be saved from first to last as a sinner.

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