It Is Not The Glorious Battlements, The

It Is The Spirit Alone That Can Mortify Sin; He Is Promised To Do It, And All Other Means Without Him Are Empty And Vain. How Shall He, Then, Mortify Sin That Has Not The Spirit? A Man May Easier See Without Eyes, Speak Without A Tongue, Than Truly Mortify One Sin Without The Spirit.

...but Let It Suffice Us To Know That It Became God, Who Is The Supreme Ruler, Governor And Judge Of All That Sin Should Be Punished With Death In The Sinner Or His Surety; And Therefore If God Would Bring Many Sons To Glory, The Captain Of Their Salvation Must Undergo Sufferings And Death, To Make Satisfaction For Them.

To Say That We Are Able By Our Own Efforts To Think Good Thoughts Or Give God Spiritual Obedience Before We Are Spiritually Regenerate Is To Overthrow The Gospel And The Faith Of The Universal Church In All Ages.

No Wonder If Such Persons Look Upon Imputed Righteousness As The Shadow Of A Dream, Who Esteem Those Things Which Evidence Its Necessity To Be But Fond Imaginations. And Small Hope Is There To Bring Such Men To Value The Righteousness Of Christ, As Imputed To Them, Who Are So Unacquainted With Their Own Unrighteousness Inherent In Them. Until Men Know Themselves Better, They Will Care Very Little To Know Christ At All.

It Is Truth Alone That Capacitates Any Soul To Glorify God.