This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... will have nothing to say to us, until we have nothing to say to Him, but just that Christ died for the ungodly; we are glad to go any length in abandoning all legal claims and reliances; and become intent upon glorying only in the Cross of Christ. We retreat from one thing after another, until we give up ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836 edition. Excerpt: ... will have nothing to say to us, until we have nothing to say to Him, but just that Christ died for the ungodly; we are glad to go any length in abandoning all legal claims and reliances; and become intent upon glorying only in the Cross of Christ. We retreat from one thing after another, until we give up every thing but the Cross, and say of it alone, " Behold, O God, our Shield." Indeed, we get no quiet rest, until we cease to argue or plead, by any thing we have become, or intend to be; and begin to confine ourselves to the one plea, " Look upon us in the face of thine Anointed." This is that reception of Christ, concerning which it is said, "as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God." John i. 12. Now, just such a place in our attention and confidence, should be given to the Holy Spirit, in reference to his work. We ought as much to look to Him for grace to help, as to the Saviour for pardon and acceptance. Whenever we look into the Scriptures for counsel or consolation, we ought to look up to the Spirit for a heart to appropriate and improve them aright. Whatever means of grace we use for safety or edification, we should never forget that their success depends upon the blessing of the Holy Spirit. In a word, we ought to be as much afraid of overlooking or under-rating the Comforter, as of not applying to the Mediator; and as watchful against leaning to our own understanding, or trusting our own hearts, as against self-righteousness or legality: for the work of the Spirit is as much intended to shut us out from self-dependance, in the matter of sanctification, as the work of Christ is to shut us out from self-complacency, in the matter of justification. To concede all this as a point...
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