You would fain believe, and have peace in believing, and be all that Jesus would have you to be; "But yet—" Nay, whatever you are going to add, whether you are about to complain of coldness, or deadness, or unworthiness, or unbelief,—whatever is to follow this "But yet" of yours—stop, pause, be ashamed and confounded. Whatever it may be that you are on the point of pleading, can it be anything else than an insult to your Saviour and an offence to your God, to put in any plea whatever in bar of the mercy and the grace which he so freely gives? Come, rather close with him now, unconditionally, unreservedly.

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