" And hence it is that he turneth sins, temptations,
persecutions, falls, and all things, for good unto his people.
I do not doubt but there is virtue enough in the blood of Christ,
would God Almighty so apply it, to save the souls of the whole
world. But it is the blood of Christ, his own blood, and he may do
what he will with his own. It is also the blood of God, and he also
may restrain its merits, or apply it as he sees good. But the coming
soul, he shall find and feel the virtue thereof, even the soul that
comes to God by Christ, for he is the man concerned in its worth.
There is sufficiency of merit in Christ to save a thousand times as
many more as are like to be saved by him.
No man needs at all to go about to come at life and peace and rest:
let him come directly from sin to grace, from Satan to Jesus Christ.
The cross, it stands and hath stood from the beginning as a way-mark
to the kingdom of heaven. Art thou inquiring the way to heaven? Why,
I tell thee Christ is the way; into him thou must get, into his
righteousness to be justified; and if thou art in him, thou wilt
presently see the cross: thou must go close by it, thou must touch
it, nay, thou must take it up, or else thou wilt quickly go out of
the way that leads to heaven, and turn up some of those crooked
lanes that lead down to the chambers of death.
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