ergo, I have life, Eph. 4:19. My sins are a burden to me (Matt. 11:28),
[3.] It makes me to see Christ precious (1 Pet. 2:7), altogether lovely, the chief among ten thousand, preferable to all the world; for whom, if my heart deceive me not (Lord, you know), I would undergo the loss of what I most esteem in the world. " Whom have I in heaven but you? and there is none on earth that I desire besides you." For indeed, "My heart and flesh faints and fails; but you are the strength of my heart O Lord," Ps. 73:25, 26.
[4. j It lets me see my need of him; so that nothing else but Christ, I am persuaded, can help me. When I have done what I can, I am but an unprofitable servant. If I should do a thousand times more than I do, I count all but loss and dung or the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord. My soul cries out for you, O God, and follows hard after you.
[5.] The knowledge that I have of Christ, makes me trust in him in some measure, Ps. 9: 10; though alas! my evil heart of unbelief creates a great deal of difficulty in that to me. I find him a present help in the time of trouble; therefore I endeavour to cast my burden upon him. I know him to be a good Master, and therefore I lean on him for help for his own work. I know his grace is sufficient for me; therefore, in temptation and trials, I endeavour to lift up my soul to him.
(2.) I feel help in duty from the Spirit. I know not what I should pray for; but the Spirit helps my infirmities, Rom. 8:26. Many times I have gone to prayer very dead, and have come away with life; I have gone with a drooping and fainting heart, and come away rejoicing; with an heart closed, and have come away with an heart enlarged, and have felt enlargement both as to words and affections; and this has made me both thankful and more vile in my own eyes, that God should have done so with the like of me, 1 Chron. 29:14.
2. He who has sense and feeling has life; but I have sense and feeling; ergo, I have life, Eph. 4:19. My sins are a burden to me (Matt. 11:28), Lord, you know my omissions and commissions, the sins of my thoughts and of my life, the sins of my youth, etc., and above all, that