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SEEM.
XVIII.
FAITH THE
WAY TO
SALVATION.
313
vation. We are
saved from sin as
well as
from hell
by
this gospel; and
we
must
have
our
souls
prepared
for
heaven,
as well
as
brought
to
the
possession
of
it.
'He
that
pretends
to
trust
in Christ, for
a
deliverance from
hell, and
has no
desire
to be made
holy,
he
has no
desire
after
such
a salvation
as
Christ
proposes
in
his
gospel,
nor
is
he
like. to
attain
it.
We must
be
sensible
then
of
the
corruption of our
na-
tures, the perverseness
of
our
wills,
the vanity
of
our
minds,
the
earthliness of our
affections,
our
inability
to
do
that
which
is good.
for
time to come, as
well
as
our
guilt,
condemnation and
misery,
because
of our
transgressions
past:
We
must desire
that,:a thorough
-work
of repentance
may
be
wrought
in
our hearts,
that
the
power and reign
of
sin may
be
broken
there, and
that
we may become new
creatures,
as well
as
desire
to
escape
the wrath
of God
and
hell,
and eternal
death,
if
ever
we
would
be
partakers of that
salvation
which
the.
gos-
pel proposes.
Christ
will
not
divide one
part
of
his
sal-
vation
from
the-
other:
And
in vain do
we
presume to
trust
in
him
for happiness,
if
we
are not
willing to be
made
holy
too.
How
false
and
unreasonable are
all the
reproaches
that
are cast
upon
the
doctrine
of salvation
by
faith, as
though it tended
to
promote
looseness
of
life,
and
to
indulge iniquity
;
when
that
very
salvation includes
in
it
a freedom
from
the
power
of
sin,
and a delight
in
all
that
is
holy
?
This
is
the very
character
of
Christ our
Saviour,
and the reason of
his
name Jesus,
that
he
should
save his
people
from
their
sins,
kiat.
i.
21.
If
we
are
delivered
by
Christ,
it
is
from this
present
wicked world,
Gal.
i.
4.
If
we
are
redeemed,
it
is
from
all
iniquity,
that
we
might
be
a
peculiar
people purified to
himself,
zealous
of
good works,
Tit.
ii.
14.
REMARK
1V.
Though the
gospel
is
such a
glorious
doctrine
of
grace,
that
there
is
no
reason
to be
ashamed
of
it,
yet
since
it
saves
us by
faith,
and not
by
works,
there
is
no
reason for
us
to
boast
when we
are
saved.
We
may glory
indeed
in
the
cross of Christ,
and-
make
our
boast
in
the Redeemer
all
the day
long; but
the gospel
for ever cuts
Wall
ground
of
boasting
in
ourselves.
Here
the
justice
and mercy
of God
shine
forth gloriously;
here
the righteousness
of God
is
declared, sinners
find
remis-