DISC. viII.] FAITH IN ITS LOWEST DEGREES. '227 to be a Saviour, the creature cannot perish. There is light and wisdom enough in him to make the fool wise for ever, and to scatter all our darkness : There is power enough in God, to make the weakest soul strong ingrace, and active in every duty : There is love enough in him, to melt the most stubborn heart, and change an old çnemy intoan humble and willing subject. Ye may be assured of this salvation if ye look to Jesus, who is God, and therefore "mighty to save ;" Is. lxiii. 1. There is an all-sufficiency in his blood and, righteous- ness to atone for infinite transgressions, and to procure the everlasting favour of God : For this High-priest or Mediator himself is one with God, be is God, and his sacrifice on earth, and his intercession in heaven, are all over dignifiedwith godhead, and thereby become al- mighty for salvation. I amGod ; and therefore have a right to prescribe the means of obtaining my salvation. LoQk therefore Unto me, ye sinners, and be saved. I will give it to every one that looks ; " he that believes on me shall be saved" from sin and death; Mark xvi. 16. ,John iii. 15, 16. God is rich in grace ; and if he will manifest the glory and freedom of it in the grant of his new covenant, and gill promise salvation to faith, and not insist upon that personal perfect obediencewhich once was required, let the thankful sinner rejoice, and submit, and give God .the honour of his abounding mercy. Let him pursue the highest measures of holiness, under the melting influences of gratitude, and the constraining power of divine love. This is naturally implied in the first part of the ivords, I am God. But when he adds this glorious clause, and there is hone else, he seems, in the second part of this sentence, to intimate these three things further to us: 1. There is none that can save besides me. The sal- vation of a sinner from the ends of the earth, from the borders of hell, is too great a work for any being that is less than Go-d. What mere creature has worth enough to make compensation to the great God for the sins of /Tien : Or what created power has influence enough to Persuade God to be reconciled ? Is there knowledge enough iná mere fellow creature; intimately toacquaint e
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