MEDITATION. XXXVIII.

Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? It is God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? it is Christ that dyed. This is my Answer unto the Accuser of the Brethren, when he tells me of my manifold Transgressions. All that he can truly lay to my charge, I am ready to lay to my own; nay I subscribe guilty to all that is down in the book of the Omniscient Gods remembrance, but then I add, Christ dyed, Christ shed his Blood, that sin might be pardoned and Page  314 purged, and I am willing to be cleansed as well as pardoned. And if the Blood of Christ be enough to satisfie divine justice, surely 'tis sufficient to satisfie and quiet the most awakened Conscience. I have indeed like a Sheep gon astray, and turned to my own way, but the Lord has laid on Christ all my iniquities, he endured the chastise∣ment of my peace, he felt the stripes that I might be healed. Hereby Satan is silenced, my own desponding Spirit revived and en∣couraged, and in the Name and Mediati∣on of Jesus, I can go unto God himself, though he is so glorious in Righteousness and Holiness, as a Child unto a Father.