Words Old and New #3

Let not the troubled heart say, Where is my perfect repenting? Where is my perfect obedience? but rather ask, Where is God's forgiving? Where is God's not imputing? How hardly is the soul drawn off from resting in itself! It is not thy doing, but God's doing. Thou must consider not what do I, but what God doth. Do not, then, look for Christ in the grave, when He is risen. Do not pore into thyself for this treasure, when it is to be looked for from heaven.

Anthony Burgess (? - 1664)

From Words Old and New ~ Horatius Bonar, Banner of Truth Trust, page 237.