How is it as to the inward convictions of your state before God? Is the thing:, that satisfies God, the thing that satisfies you, and that enables you to draw nigh to Him in perfect peace? God saying " There is the Lamb in the midst of the throne, I cannot bring any charge against Rim. To bring a. charge against a believer, would be to bring a charge against my Son."
To one I said, " Suppose you were going home to-night?" " I should tremble," he answered. To another, who said that to know the forgiveness of his sins was the indefeasible birthright of the believer, " Suppose, I said, you were to fall off that chair dead this moment"-" God forbid," cried he, in alarm. If not ready at any moment to be called into His presence, you are not on the ground that. God is on, as to the perfect justification of a sinner. It is the blood of His Son that fits you to be in His presence. Are you satisfied with it?
Christ is in heaven as the accepted sacrifice everything in the eternal mind is rolling. round Him. God will not allow of any low thoughts about that blood, He will not allow His children to have a slight estimate of its value. You must get by yourself with God, to test whether the value which you set on that blood corresponds with His.
I believe that many of God's children would hesitate to say of themselves what God can say,. that is, that they have a perfect conscience, a conscience that cannot be improved. (They do not clearly distinguish between conscience, and consciousness, of sin.) But a purged conscience is a conscience which Christ has washed in His own blood, and He did it perfectly. If any know that they have that conscience, it is because they know the value of the blood of the Lamb on the throne, that blood making them as white as snow, and because it is ever in their mind as that which makes, them perfectly fit for the presence of God.