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are righteous and PERFECT in themselves, he aims to distress them for want of PERFECTION. In the day of health, in the time of sickness, and perhaps, most powerfully in the hour of death, satan will inject into the mind these fiery darts: "you a child of God, you a member of Jesus, who never loved God perfectly, served him faithfully, nor obeyed him sincerely! In all things you have sinned. His law curses you; his justice is incensed against you; his wrath is ready to fall on you. Your faith is fancy; your hope delusion; hell will be your portion." O, what can any poor sinner say to all this? What can he do against all this? Say! Glorify his Lord, by confessing, Lord I am damned, but thou hast died; but for thy salvation, my state is as desperate as devils. What can he do? Honor his Lord, by obeying his word, "put on the whole armour of God, that ye may stand in this evil day, and above all (or rather upon all other parts of it) take the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked ONE.".... Eph. vi. 11, 16. Fiery darts! Yes, being dipt in the wrath and terrors of a broken law, they wound, inflame, and bring the fire of hell into the conscience. What is this shield of faith? The belief that Jesus is to us sinners a Saviour; that his blood has perfectly atoned for our sins; his righteousness has fully justified our persons; and that there is no condemnation to us. Thus shall these fiery darts of satan be quenched, and our conscience healed; this and nothing but this, can effect it. Mind this precious word, "ye shall be ABLE." The ability of our faith is nothing less than the almighty power of Jesus our God. This is engaged for us. By this we shall stand against every assault of satan; and all shall issue in present peace of conscience, and eternal salvation of soul. This is the glory of a christian, to resist satan in the faith of what Jesus is to him and hath done for him. We are sure to overcome him by the blood of the LAMB, but in no other way. "Shortly, our God of peace shall forever bruise satan under our feet." We "shall return and come to Zion with songs (of free grace) and everlasting joy shall be on our heads, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away."....Isa. xxxv. 10.

Now, christian reader, I commend thee to God and to the word of his grace, wishing thee sweet comfort in perusing these Daily Meditations. If cur Lord give thee only as much in reading as I have found in writing them, thou wilt have great cause for love and-praise. Accept them as the labour of one "who is no prophet, nor the son of a prophet;" but who can, from his heart, say with Gideon, "my family is poor, and I am the least in my Father's house."....Judges vi. 15. Yet having been taught somewhat of the glory of Jesus from the word of truth, by the grace of the Spirit, I would rejoice to spread the glory of my Lord's precious name,

and the comforts of his everlastingly finished salvation, among my fellow sinners: testifying, that all my hope of eternal life is fixed: upon the Son of God, who was crucified on mount Calvary; therefore would glory in being a saved sinner by the cross of Jesus, and in the name of a CALVARYIST.

Glory be to God in the highest. Grace be with all them who love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.

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