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viII.]
FAITH
IN ITS LOWEST DEGREES.
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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
in
grace,
and active in every duty
:
There
is
love enough
in
him,
to
melt the most
stubborn heart, and
change an
old
çnemy
into
an
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 dignified
with
godhead,
and thereby
become
al-
mighty for salvation.
I
am
God ;
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 obedience
which 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
in
á
mere
fellow
creature; intimately
to
acquaint
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