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We must accept of Christ as a free Gift bringing nothing
of our own to recommend us to his acceptance. We must accept
of him as our only righteousness to justify us before God and as
our Prince as well as Saviour consenting as well to be governed
as to be saved to be sanctified as to be justified by him.
And as we must receive him, so we must confidently trust
as a continual Fountain of all supplier of Grace to our Souls
whatever difficulty and discouragements we may meet with
And we must have this standing evidence of the sincerity
of out Faith that it purifies the heart and brings us to an
earnest desire of an endeavor after habitual Holiness of
heart & life that it works by love to God and man and
keeps up in our Souls an abaseing Scene of our own vileness
and utter unworthiness after all. This is that precious
Faith to which the Promises of the Gospel are made and to
which no false Professor can make any Just pretence
Dickinson's Letters