You were not led to exercise one single act of faith only, in calling on him at first to save you from your sins, with a design that you should afterwards live a life of self-dependence and self-sufficiency. No: if you would be holy, lively, and comfortable, you must live by faith in Christ daily and hourly, maintaining constant communion with him, and undertaking nothing without him; for in him must be all your strength from first to last. You were not made sensible of your natural poverty and helplessness, on your first conviction, to the end that, after believing and receiving his grace, you should begin to be something in your own eyes, and not have so much occasion to depend upon him now as formerly.

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