In reading tonight I came across this and was really refreshed by it. Any amount of self-sufficiency is clearly condemned by these truths found in Thomas Wilcox's tract, Honey Out of the Rock, where the focus is entirely on Christ. The first paragraph is found on page 5, the second is on page 7.
When you believe and come to Christ, you must leave behind you your own righteousness, all your holiness, sanctification, duties, tears, humblings, etc., and bring nothing but your sins, your wants and miseries, else Christ is not fit for you, nor you for Christ. Christ will be a perfect Redeemer and Mediator, and you must be an undone sinner, or Christ and you will never agree. It is the hardest thing in the world to take Christ alone for righteousness; that is, to acknowledge Him Christ.
Stand with all your weight upon Christ's righteousness. Take heed of having one foot on your righteousness, another on Christ's. Till Christ come and sit upon a throne of grace in the conscience, there is nothing but guilt, terrors, secret suspicions, the soul hanging between hope and fear, which is not an evangelical state. Whoever is afraid to see sin's utmost vileness, and confess the desperate wickedness of his heart, suspects the merits of Christ.
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