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69 for failures & don not forgive sin. For the law is holy, just & good; & pronounces him guilty & condemned who offends in one point, or who continueth not therein. The sinner, before he has that preparation of heart that is necessary to worship & serve God acceptably may imagine himself to be whole & have need of nothing, but he must be convinced that he is poor & miserable, before he will be prepared to prize the remedy which grace has provided for the guilty & helpless. He must renounce his own goodness as having no merit to justify him & feel his dependence on that plan of grace, which refers the honor of his salvation to God. This is a term of acceptance with God, which crosses the natural pride of the heart & disposes the sinner to resist the convictions of the spirit & resist his own salvation. He loves not to view himself in so helpless & hopeless a condition. But without this ?ttiness? of mind there can be no salvation. Submission to God is the nobless act of the soul. For the supreme will & pleasure of God is the most perfect rule of righteousness. And then only do we act in character as becomes his creatures when most passively obedient to his Will. And as guilty offenders does submission to his free grace, with a true sinse? & acknowledgement of unworthiness, most become us & is the only way appointed for our acceptance.

  2. Nearly connected with this frame of mind is repentance towards God, for our sines, an unreserved confession & hearty forsak.g of them. The other qualification paves the way to this. Conviction of impotency & unrighteousness is necessary to repentance. We might first be conscious that we have offended be