If you know these two things—yourself a sinner and Christ a Savior—it is looking from yourself to Jesus. Oh! There be men that quite misunderstand the gospel; they think that righteousness qualifies them to come to Christ; whereas sin is the only qualification for a man to come to Jesus. Good old Crisp

says, "Righteousness keeps me from Christ: the whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick. Sin makes me come to Jesus, when sin is felt; and in coming to Christ, the more sin I have the more cause I have to hope for mercy."

He who, amidst a thousand troubles, keeps his heart whole and his garments white by standing firm in his integrity, may battle against all the world and all the hosts of Hell, and not be afraid; but he who does ill out of policy has thrown away his shield.

Innocence unarmoured is yet clad in mail, while craft and fraud though sheathed in steel shall fall, fatally wounded by the arrows of eternal providence.