Mercy, Absolute, Righteousness

No.271

What some call trusting in the ABSOLUTE MERCY OF GOD, i.e. trusting in his merciful nature without any consideration of a mediator to make way for and obtain the exercises of that mercy, is not much different from trusting in our own righteousness. It arises from the same principle, viz. a want of a sense of our guilt and unworthiness, and too high an o…