transgression, and effecting a reconciliation between God and man?
Who besides him could rescue us out of the hands of our spiritual enemies ? He is that stronger man, who alone can vanquish our mighty adversary, and deliver us from our sore bondage h
Who besides him can teach us the way of salvation i ? or in- cline us to seek after it^? or render our endeavours effectual1 ?
We may truly say then, that as there is no other foundation on which to build our hopes™, so neither is there any other name or power whereby we can be saved"? " Christ is all,
2. In him there is help sufficient —
[There is nothing wanting in sinful man, which is not abundantly supplied in Jesus Christ. In him there is wisdom to direct the most ignorantp, — merit to justify the most guilty "J, — grace to sanctify the most polluted r, — and strength to render even the weakest of the human race a conqueror, yea, " more than conqueror," over all his enemies s. He is furnished of God for this very end', and appointed of him to this very office", and is in every respect " able to save to the uttermost all that come unto God by himx."]
Address —
1. Those who are ignorant of their real state —
[Too many, alas ! are altogether ignorant of their undone state, and still more so of the guilt attaching to them as the authors of their own misery. But whether we know these things or not, it is an indisputable fact that we have destroyed ourselves, and that there is no possibility of recovery for us but in and through Christ. Let us then seek instruction on these infinitely important subjects, lest we " perish for ever for lack of knowledgey." And let us not for one moment look for acceptance in any other way than through the Lord Jesus Christ, as though we were not self-destroyed, or there re- mained in us any sufficiency to help ourselves. For so destitute are we of all help in ourselves, that, if a good thought would cancel all our past iniquities, and open the kingdom of heaven to us, we could not supply itz. If ever we would partake of the
s Ps. lxxxix. 19. with Heb. x. 4 — 10. h Luke xi. 21, 22.
1 Matt. xi. 27. k Phil. ii. 13. » John xv. 5.
m 1 Cor. hi. 11. " Acts iv. 12. ° Col. hi. 11.
v Matt. xi. 29. <i Acts xiii. 39. r 1 Cor. vi. 11.
s 2 Cor. xii. 9. Phil. iv. 13. t Isai. lxi. 1.
u 1 Cor. i. 30. * Heb. vii. 25. y Hos. iv. 6. z 2 Cor. iii. 5.