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The contingency is not in
the doing of these things perfectly, and regardless of the
righteousness of Christ to cover our transgressions and compensate
for our daily shortcomings; but if, added to our faith in the
imputed righteousness of Christ, we have cultivated all these graces
to the extent of our ability, we shall not fall. When we have
done all that we can do, we are still unprofitable servants, not
daring to trust in our own righteousness, but in the ample robe
which is ours by faith in Christ, while, with consistent
“diligence,” we work out our own salvation with fear and trembling,
knowing that the righteousness of Christ is only applied to such as
desire to forsake sin and pursue that “holiness without which no man
shall see the
Lord”. |
