If you would use the law in a gospel manner, let not the duty the law requires, or the discovery the law makes, hinder you to embrace the offer that the gospel makes. The gospel offers Christ as a husband; the law saith, Thou art a black sinner an unfit match for such a husband. The gospel offer is, that you buy the eye-salve, white raiment and tried gold. The law tells thee, thou hast nothing to buy with. Now, you use the law evangelically, when you say, Black as I am, I embrace the offer of such a husband; he can make me beautiful through his comeliness. Poor as I am, I embrace the offer of his eye-salve. There is riches enough in Christ for me; and I see he invites me to buy without money, and without price, and to take the water of life freely.

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