SECT. XXVI. Come now to the fecond Branch of the Obfervation : which is, that [ whenBelievers Glory in their own Mortification, it muff be as it is the fruitof the Crofs ofChrifl that fo all their Glorying may be principally andultimately in Chrifi , and not in themfelves. j They mull take heed of afcribing thehonour to themfelves, or of reilirg in themfelves but all their o}fervation of thegraces that are in themmuff be in pure refpeá tohim that is the fountain and the end,that we may thankfully acknowledge our receivings, and admire the eternal' Love which did bellow them, and the compaffions and merits of our Crucified Redeemer and the powerfull operations of his Spirit in our fouls and fomay be carriedout to Love and Duty in the fenfe of ourreceivingç, and may live to the praifes of him that hath calledus out of darknefs into his marvellous light. And that youmay fee how great reafon there is for this, and fo may bekept fromglorying in your felves, I (hall open thecaufe toyou as it lyethboth on Chrills part and on ours ; What he is to us, and what we are foour felves. Confider,, i . It was Chrifi andnot we thatwrought our delive- rance, by the wonderfull work ofourRedemption. Long enough might we have layer) in prilon before we could have paid the ut- mofh farthing ; and long might we have born the wrath which :we deferved, before we could have doneany thing tomerit or any .wayprocureour deliverance. Had we wept out our eyes, and praeed our hearts our, and never committed fin again, this would not have made fatisfa&ion to God for the fin,thatwas paft. Long enough might we hayelain in our blood , if this compaflìonate ,Redeemer hadnot taken us up, and undertaken thecure. 'Had he 'turnedus off to anycreature, we hadbeen left Hadwe . looked on theright hand for foie to deliver us, or on the left, we Ihould have found none : Befides him there isnoSaviour. Ifeuab 43. I I : f1ßs,4. I z., And moreover theway he bath taken is wonderful. There are Hh z un-
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