I have seen my abominable vileness. if I were well known, there would be none in this kingdom ask how I do. Men take my ten to be a hundred; but I am a deeper hypocrite or shallower professor than everyone believeth. God knoweth I feign not. But I think my reckonings written on the one page written in great letters, and his mercy to such a forlorn and wretched and bankrupt on the other, more than a miracle. If I could get my finger-end upon full assurance, I think I should grip fast: but my cup wanteth not gall. And upon my part, despair might almost be excused, if everyone in this land saw his innerside. But I know I am one of those that have made a great sale and a free market to free grace. If I could be saved, as I would fain believe sure I am that I have given Christ's blood, his free grace and the bowels of his mercy a large field to work upon. And Christ hath manifested his art, I dare not say to the uttermost, (for he can if he would forgive all the devils and condemned reprobates in respect of the widness of his mercy), but I say to an admirable degree.--Samuel Rutherford
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