Even the partial sanctification which the children of God experience in this world, would give them no good ground to hope for salvation, if it were not that Jesus Christ "is the end of the law for righteousness, to every one that believeth." He having "magnified the law, and rendered it honourable," God can now, consistently with his regard towards his own character, and the law which is an exhibition of it, be just, and yet the justifier of him that believeth. And, it is because all the ends of the law are perfectly answered, by the obedience and death of Christ, and for this reason only, that God can now save the believing sinner, and look with a fatherly tenderness and complacency on those who are the subjects of a partial sanctification only.

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