Our  salvation,  Christian  brethren,  had
been  incomplete,  if  Jesus  had  stopped  short
with  pardon.  By  atonement  he  procures
another  infinite  good.  In  justification,  we
receive  a  change  of  standing,  in  reference
to  justice  and  law;  but  we  need  a  change
of  nature  and  life.  Our  blessed  Lord  did
not  die  to  keep  us  in  an  eternity  of  sin-
ning. "Nor  yet  did  he  secure  for  us  re-
mission of  God's  wrath,  simply  that  we
mi^ht  henceforward  advance  on  our  own
account,  and  have  a  new  trial.  Nay;  we
should  not  have  stood  firm  an  hour.  He
came  and  suffered,  moreover,  for  a  higher
end,  than  to  afford  us  the  greatest  motive
to  be  holy.  These  are  not  God's  ways.
