O my friend! We can make no atonement to a violated Law - we have no inward holiness of our own - the Lord Jesus is the Lord our righteousness.
Cling not to such beggarly elements - such filthy rags - mere cob webs of Pharisaical pride but look to Him who has wrought out a perfect righteousness for His people.
You find it a hard task to come naked and miserable to Christ... But if you come at all you must come thus ... There must be no conditions - Christ and Christ alone must be the only Mediator between God and sinful men - no miserable performances may be placed between the sinner and the Savior. Let the eye of faith be ever directed to the Lord Jesus Christ; and I beseech Him to bring every thought of your heart into captivity to the obedience of our Great High Priest.
George Whitfield (1714-1769)
Taken from God's Anointed Servant in the Great Revival of the Eighteenth Century, by Arnold A. Dallimore (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Books, 1990), p. 161. and excerpted from Whitfield Gold, Pure. Refined. by Ray Comfort (Gainsville, FL: Bridge-Logos, 2006), p. 99.
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