the perfect obedience, and vicarious death of another, viz., the Lord Jesus Christ. To perfect obedience to the law, you can lay no claim. "All have sinned and come short of the glory of God." None can "tell how oft he offendeth." To be justified by the deeds of the law, therefore, is impossible. The great provision made in the gospel, is the only hope of sinful man. If then we would be prepared to meet death in perfect peace, we must be "found in Christ, not having our own righteousness which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith." The promise of eternal blessedness is to those only, who are thus united to Christ, by that faith "which works by love, purifies the heart and overcomes the world;" who have been raised from a death of sin, unto a new birth unto righteousness, by the power of the Holy Ghost, and are walking as those who are alive from the dead. The persons who answer this
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