union Sabbath evenings,
to be especially careful to confess the sins of holy things. I
ought to confess the sins of my confessions,--their imperfections,
sinful aims, self-righteous tendency, etc.,--and to look to
Christ as having confessed my sins perfectly over his own
sacrifice.

"I ought to go to Christ for the forgiveness of each sin. In
washing my body, I go over every spot, and wash it out. Should I
be less careful in washing my soul? I ought to see the stripe
that was made on the back of Jesus by each of my sins. I ought
to see the infinite pang thrill through the soul of Jesus equal
to an eternity of my hell for my sins, and for all of them. I
ought to see that in Christ's bloodshedding there is an infinite
over-payment for all my sins. Although Christ did not suffer
more than infinite justice demanded, yet He could not suffer at
all without laying down an infinite ransom.

"I feel, when I have sinned, an immediate reluctance to go to
Christ. I am ashamed to go. I feel as if it would do no good to
go,--as if it were making Christ a minister of sin, to go
straight from the swine-trough to the best robe,--and a thousand
other excuses; but I am persuaded they are all lies, direct from
hell. John argues the opposite way: 'If any man sin, we have an
advocate with the Father;' Jer. 3:1 and a thousand other
scriptures are against it. I am sure there is neither peace nor
safety from deeper sin, but in going directly to the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is God's way of peace and holiness. It is folly to
the world and the beclouded heart, but it is _the way_.

"I must never think a sin too small to need immediate
application to the blood of Christ. If I put away a good
conscience, concerning faith I make shipwreck. I must never
think my sins too great, too aggravated, too presumptuous,--as
when done on my knees, or in preaching, or by a dying bed, or
during dangerous illness,--to hinder me from fleeing to Christ.
The weight of my sins should act like the weight of a clock: the
heavier it is, it makes it go the faster.

"I must not only wash in Christ's blood, but clothe me in
Christ's obedience. For every sin of omission in self, I may
find a divinely perfect obedience ready for me in Christ. For
every sin of commission in self, I may find not only a stripe or
a wound in Christ, but also a perfect renderin