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24 teousness. His guilt has been taken away. He has received a free, full, and everlasting pardon. All that Jesus Christ did and suffered in the room of sinners has been reckoned to his account. In the finished work of the Saviour, he has a title to eternal life; and this he had before death; for it cannot be obtained afterwards. As soon as he believed in Christ he was united to Him. He has the benefit of Christ's righteousness as really as if it were his own.

He is washed, and sanctified, and justified, in the name, and by the Spirit of Christ. He is reconciled to God; and, therefore, when he appears before him at death, he comes not as an enemy, but as a friend, to receive the crown of life, which God the righteous Judge will give to all who love him. It is the subject of pleasing conviction, that this crown is now worn by the poor wandering outcast, who was picked up by a benevolent individual in one of the streets of Glasgow.

One thing is certain, many as bad as she, and many a great deal worse have received the crown of life. Christ came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance; and it is an infallible truth, that he saves the very chief of sinners, pardons them to everlasting happiness. Let no one under a notion that he is better than others expect that such will be his lot. Salvation is for sinners. He that trusts in himself that he is righteous shall not receive the crown of life, but shall die the death, and suffer the misery of the wicked:

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