. Family devotions, for every morning and evening throughout the year. Translated from the German of Sturm and Tiede. ? FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 321 before found, that I could not answer the strictness of the law,because my duties fell short of the rule ; so I came to dis-cover, that I could not answer the spirituality of the gospel,for I pressed after acts of grace upon a legal footing ; makingworks of them all. I found I could neither believe, nor pray,as the gospel required. While 1 was in this plunge, it pleased the Lord to directme to study the person of Christ: whom I looked on as thegreat unde
. Family devotions, for every morning and evening throughout the year. Translated from the German of Sturm and Tiede. ? FAMILY DEVOTIONS. 321 before found, that I could not answer the strictness of the law,because my duties fell short of the rule ; so I came to dis-cover, that I could not answer the spirituality of the gospel,for I pressed after acts of grace upon a legal footing ; makingworks of them all. I found I could neither believe, nor pray,as the gospel required. While 1 was in this plunge, it pleased the Lord to directme to study the person of Christ: whom I looked on as thegreat undertaker in the work of mans salvation. And,truly, here I may say, according to my measure, as Paul?lid, it pleased God to reveal his Son in me. God over-came my heart with this. I saw so much mercy in his mercy, somuch love in his love, so much grace in his grace, that I knewnot what to liken it to. And here my heart broke, I knewnot how. Belief of salvation must be grounded on some inwardtransaction between Christ and the soul. I began to consider,whether any such thing had passed between Christ and me :and,
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