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Rh greatest sight in the world; none can do that, but at the same time they shall see that glory and salvation to be theirs.

Sights will cause applications. I may be ashamed to think, in the midst of so much profession, that I have known little of the blood of Christ, which is the main thing of the gospel. A Christless, formal profession will be the blackest sight, next to hell, that can be. Thou mayest have many good things, and yet one thing may be a-wanting, that may make thee go away sorrowful from Christ. Thou hast never sold all thou hast, never parted with all thine own righteousness, &c. Thou mayest be high in duty, and yet a perfect enemy and adversary to Christ, in every prayer, and in every ordinance. Labour after sanctification to thy utmost; but make not a Christ of it to save thee; if so, it must come down one way or other. Christ’s infinite satisfaction, not thy sanctification, must be thy justification before God. When the Lord shall appear terrible out of his holy place, fire shall consume that as hay and stubble.

This will be sound religion, only to bottom all upon the everlasting mountains of God’s love and grace in Christ, to live continually in the sight of Christ’s infinite righteousness audand [sic] merits, (they are sanctifying, and without them the heart is