What a sin-killing, self-abasing sight!''

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(From the autobiography of Frances Wernham)
One evening, when wrestling hard with God in prayer, 
my soul was silenced by these words being applied 
with power to my soul--"This is My beloved Son, in 
whom I am well pleased; hear Him!" 

I was instantly led by the blessed Spirit in the exercise 
of faith to look on Him whom my sins had pierced, and 
exclaimed, "This is my beloved Saviour, I want no more! 
This is my Friend and my Brother, my Lord and my God!"

What a sin-killing, self-abasing sight! Every high thought 
and towering imagination fell down flat before Him like 
Dagon before the ark. When I saw, by the eye of faith, 
His pierced hands and feet, and that He shed His blood 
for me--so interesting did the sight appear that I was 
lost to every other thought--as if I were the only sinner 
in the world that had been the procuring cause of His 
sufferings. Now I could say--"Lord, I have heard of You 
many times by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye 
sees You; therefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust 
and ashes!"

Then did the Lord bind up my wounded spirit by pouring 
in oil and wine as fast as I could receive it, one passage 
of Scripture after another being applied to my soul so 
fraught with comfort and divine consolation.

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