9.  There must be a satisfaction with the terms of the gospel, and the heart must actually close with Christ as he is offered in the gospel.  The heart must open to him, and take him in, Rev. iii. 20.  The soul must embrace and receive him, John i. 12.  The man must take him as his Lord and Master, King, Priest, and Prophet; must give up himself to him as his leader and commander, and resolve to follow him in all things, and thus close a bargain with him; for, till this be done, there is no union with Christ, and, till there be an union with Christ, there is no partaking of the fruits of his redemption as to justification, no pardon, no acceptance, no access to the favour of God, nor peace nor joy in the Holy Ghost, no getting of the conscience sprinkled, nor no intimation of love or favour from God, &c.

10.  There must be a leaning to and resting upon him and on his perfect sacrifice.  The soul must sit down here as satisfied, and acquiesce in this complete mediation of his.  This is to believe on him, to rest on him, John iii. 18. 1 Pet. ii. 6, as an all-sufficient help.  This is to cast the burden of a broken covenant, of a guilty conscience, of deserved wrath, of the curse of the law, &c. upon him, that he may bear away those evils from us.  This is to put on the Lord Jesus (in part), Rom. xiii. 14; to cover ourselves with his righteousness from the face of justice, to stand in this armour of proof against the accusations of law, Satan, and an evil conscience.  This is to flee to him as our city of refuge, that we may be safe from the avenger of blood.  This is to make him our refuge from the storm of God’s anger, and a shadow from the heat of his wrath, Isa. xxv. 4, and “our hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest,” and as the “shadow of a great rock in a weary land,” Isa. xxxii. 2.  When we hide ourselves in him as the complete cautioner that hath fully satisfied justice, and “desire to be found in him alone, not having our own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith,” Phil. iii. 9.  This is to lay our hand on the head of the sacrifice, when we rest on this sacrifice, and expect salvation through it alone.  This is to cast ourselves in Christ’s arms, as peremptorily resolving to go no other way to the Father, and to plead no other righteousness before God’s bar but Christ’s; that is faith, yea, the lively acting of justifying faith.

Thus then is Christ made use of as the way to the Father, in the point of justification, when the poor awakened sinner, convinced of his sin and misery, of his own inability to help himself, of the insufficiency of all means beside Christ, of Christ’s all-sufficiency, readiness, and willingness to help, of the equity and reasonableness of the conditions on which he is offered, and life through him, is now content and fully satisfied with this way, actually renouncing all other ways whatsoever, and doth with heart and hand embrace Jesus Christ, and take him as he is offered in the gospel, to make use of him for all things, to Jean to him, and rest upon him in all hazards, and particularly, to refuge itself under his wings, and to rest there with complacency, satisfaction, and delight, and hide itself from the wrath of God and all accusations.