IMPUTED SANCTIFICATION. 363 holiness, he has in his own person whereof to glory," and any furthe,r attainment is anomalous ; or at Best this transfer is even less rational, and evi- dently more removed from common sense- as Well as from charity, than the doctrine of supererogation itself; for that only teaches that some men were rich in good works enough, and to spare ; but this, instead of the friendly disposal of such superfluous wealth, teaches that we Dave none worth keeping, and that if we had, there is a provision made for render, ing it utterly useless. A distorted truth, then, is worse than an original falsehood, because it deceives the injudicious and ill-informed by re- taining some little 'vestige of the truth they had been taught to venerate. Thus, they who pretend to add new glory to the character and offices of Christ, are in effect dishonouring by misrepresenting him. It is a fearful fact, that the holiest doctrine may be perverted, till, instead of its being the source of salvation, it R 2
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