Had his salvation been suspended in any degree, upon his wisdom to discover, his goodness to merit, his disposition to accept, his strength to comply with or persevere in, this gospel of grace, he must have perished without remedy. It is the gratuitous nature of this salvation that gives it so perfect an adaptation to the fallen condition of man. The sinner has no personal merit, and no means of acquiring any: the gospel provides a righteousness for him. The sinner is too poor to purchase this righteousness, the gospel bestows upon him as a free gift.
E. L. Cleaveland — E. L. Cleaveland, Pastor of the Church, Christ the Only Foundation. A Sermon, Delivered at the Dedication of the Church-Edifice in Court Street, Erected by the Third Congregational Society in New Haven, December 7, 1841 (New Haven: Printed by Hitchcock & Stafford, 1841), p. 16
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