attainments of your own, as your warrant to go to him, or to hope in him : your hope must be founded wholly on the sufficiency of his atonement, and the perfection of the righteousness which he wrought out for you. I do not mean that you are to be remiss m your obedience ; but you are not to rely ufon it. In point of dependence, your best deeds must be dis- claimed as much as your worst. The fixed and habi- tual sentiment of your heart must be, " God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ^." For sanctification also must you look to him, and that with as much earnestness, as if you were to be saved by your own works. Whilst I warn you that your own good works must be renounced in point of dependence, I would not have you imagine that you can ever be saved without them : No : I declare to every living man, that antinomianism is a horrible delusion, and a damning sin. God has plainly warned us, that " without holiness no man shall see the Lord ;" and that " every man who has a scrip- tural hope in Christ, must purify himself even as he is pure^" Your complete redemption also must be received from Christ alone. You must " be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus'." It is in his strength alone that you are to maintain your contest with your great adversary, for it is he alone that can " bruise Satan under your feet\" And bear in mind, that no one of these things is to be separated from another. There must be no harbouring of philo- sophic pride, or of pharisaic self-righteousness, or of antinomian hcentiousness : but the whole of Christ's benefits must be sought by you, without partiality and without hypocrisy^."
Next, I would observe, these things must be sought i7i their proper order, that is, in the very order in which they are here proposed. Divine teaching must be sought in the first instance ; for without that, you can know nothing either of your own need of Christ,
e Heb. xii. 14. •> 1 John iii. 3. * 2 Tim. ii. 1.
^ Rom. xvi. 20. ' Jam. iii. 17-