There can be no such thing as purchase, no such thing as merit, no such thing as disinterested motive, no such thing as gratitude and love, and consequently, no such thing as true morality, apart from Christ, nor until the exercise of Christ's forgiving mercy, until the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus makes the soul free from the law of sin and of death. The religion preached in the gospel is one entirely of free grace, grace free in the gift, grace that makes free in the exercise; Christ Jesus is not a half-Saviour, leaving our works to do the rest; for our best works, even when we have been forgiven, tried by the law, would condemn us again, and he must save us from our very works of piety, as well as our ways of sin, from the guilt of our very efforts to obey the law, as well as from the condemnation of the law originally.

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