The Testator has written down that the favor of God and eternal life can only be obtained through him. If we have them we must have them as a gift from him. We do not deserve them; we can not earn them. If our sins are ever forgiven they must be forgiven through Christ's blood. If we ever reach heaven it must be by the road which he opened with his cross. No hand but his pierced hand can put into our hands the title-deeds of an estate on high; and so we are told that we must abate our pride and crush down our self-conceit, and come to him, and through faith in him learn to say, “Our Father,” and so be adopted as sons and daughters into God's family, claiming every thing on the ground of the will.

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