Go to the Blood of Christ

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greenbaggins

Puritan Board Doctor
The conscience of the sinner must always go to the blood of Christ. Richard Sibbes explains:

Then go to the blood of Christ! There is always comfort. The fountain that is opened for 'Judah and Jerusalem' to wash in is never dry. Go therefore to the blood of Christ, that is, if we find sin upon our consciences, if we find not peace in our consciences, nor sanctification in our hearts, go to the blood of Christ, which is shed for all those that confess their sins, and rely on him for pardon, though we find no grace. For howsoever as an evidence that we are in Christ, we must find the work of the Spirit; yet before we go to Christ it is sufficient that we see nothing in ourselves, no qualification; for the graces of the Spirit they are not the condition of coming to Christ, but the promise of those that receive Christ after. Therefore go to Christ when thou feelest neither joy of the Spirit, nor sanctification of the Spirit; go to the blood of Christ, and that will purge thee, and wash thee from all thy sins. From An Exposition of 2 Corinthians 1 (Works of Richard Sibbes, volume 3, p. 464).​
 
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