It is a hard matter, yea, an impossible thing for thy human strength,
whosoever thou art (without God's assistance), at such a time when
Moses setteth on thee with the Law (see Aphorism XII.),--when the holy
Law written in thy heart accuseth and condemneth thee, forcing thee to
a comparison of thy heart therewith, and convicting thee of the
incompatibleness of thy will and nature with Heaven and holiness and
an immediate God--that then thou shouldest be able to be of such a
mind as if no Law nor sin had ever been! I say it is in a manner
impossible that a human creature, when he feeleth himself assaulted
with trials and temptations, and the conscience hath to do with God,
and the tempted man knoweth that the root of temptation is within him,
should obtain such mastery over his thoughts as then to think no
otherwise than that from everlasting nothing hath been but only and
alone Christ, altogether Grace and Deliverance!