We see that our whole salvation and all its parts are
comprehended
in Christ. We should therefore take care not to derive the
least portion of it from anywhere else. If we seek
salvation, we are taught by the very name of Jesus
that it is "of him".
If we seek any other gifts of the Spirit,
they
will be found in his anointing.
If we seek strength, it lies in his dominion;
if purity, in his conception;
if gentleness, it appears in his birth. For by his
birth
he was made like us in all respects that he might learn to
feel our pain.
If we seek redemption, it lies in his passion;
if acquittal, in his condemnation;
if remission of the curse, in his cross;
if satisfaction, in his sacrifice;
if purification, in his blood;
if reconciliation, in his descent into hell;
if mortification of the flesh, in his tomb;
if newness of life, in his resurrection;
if immortality, in the same;
if inheritance of the Heavenly Kingdom, in his entrance
into
heaven;
if protection, if security, if abundant supply of all
blessings,
in his Kingdom;
if untroubled expectation of judgment, in the power
given
to him to judge.
In short, since rich store of every kind of good abounds in
him, let us drink our fill from this fountain,
and
from no other.