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must look to his blood to cleanse you from the iniquity even of your holiest things. Seek it con- stantly too : it was every day in the year that the offerings for sin were made : and every day and hour must you look to your great Sacrifice, if you would have it available for your eternal good. Seek it, moreover, unreservedly. Neglect not the water, any more than the blood. It will be a fatal mistake to think of ever being saved by the sacrifice of Christ, if you be not renewed and sanctified by his Spirit. These two are inseparably joined by God himself; and it will be at the peril of your souls, if ever you attempt to put them asunder. Lastly, I would say, seek it to the full extent of your necessities. I have purposely deferred till now all mention of the sacri- fices that were appointed for the sins of ignorance. They are particularly stated in the fourth chapter of the Book of Leviticus. There you will see, that, if a man had ever so ignorantly and unintentionally contracted defilement, (say, by the touching of a bone or a grave, or any thing that had been pre- viously touched by one unclean,) he must bring his offering, as soon as ever he discovered that he had transgressed : and, if he should refuse to bring his appointed offering, he must be cut off from the Lord's people, as a despiser of the law, and a rebel against his God. Thus must we do, even for the slightest inadvertence or defect. And if, from an idea that our offence has been light and venial, we hope to remove its guilt by any other means than the blood of Christ, we shall surely perish. If we had never violated God's holy law but once, and that only by an inadvertent thought, there remains for us but one way of salvation, one only door of hope : and, if we will not enter at that door, and walk in that way, " there remains nothing for us but a certain fearful looking-for of wrath and fiery indignation to consume us." I say then, again, to every soul amongst you, seek for salvation in Christ alone. There was but one brazen serpent erected in the camp of Israel : and there is but one Saviour appointed for the whole